New York Today: 7 Million Miles

Michael Nagle for The New York Times Sometimes the city seems like a sea of blue bicycles.

Updated 6:21 a.m. | Seven million miles seems like a pretty good distance.

It’s the equivalent of 15 round trips to the moon.

It is also, city officials said yesterday, how far people have ridden on Citi Bikes since the bike-share program made its debut on Memorial Day.

Despite early snags and complaints about those racks taking up parking spots, the blue bikes seem to have become part of the streetscape.

Other stats: riders have taken 3.35 million trips on the bikes. Nearly 300,000 memberships have been sold.

As impressive as the figures are, cycling advocates say they could be a lot better.

“Moving forward the number we want is zero,” said Paul Steely White, the head of Transportation Alternatives. “As in zero New Yorkers with a Citi Bike station farther than a short walk away.”

Here’s what else you need to know for Wednesday.

WEATHER

Like yesterday. Sunny, high of 72. Same tomorrow and Friday.

A person could get used to this. But don’t: the weekend is looking rainy.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Mass Transit [6:21] New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor trains from Jersey Avenue station delayed or canceled because of overhead wire problem. Subways O.K. so far. Click for latest M.T.A. status.

- Roads [6:21] No major delays. Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s.

Alternate-side parking is in effect today, though not Thursday or Friday.

COMING UP TODAY

- Joseph J. Lhota greets commuters at Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s subway stop on 77th Street this morning.

- The mayor announces the results of an investigation into the sale of illegal guns.

- Alec Baldwin speaks at the opening of a show of historic photos of Little Italy. 6 p.m. at 263 Mulberry Street. [Free]

- A talk at the Tenement Museum on how immigrants have shaped the city. 6:30 p.m. [Free]

- A parade of dogs at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine marks the opening of an exhibition of photographic portraits, “Dog Bless You.” 6 p.m. [Free, B.Y.O. dog]

- Hear short-story writers discuss their craft, or read your favorite short story at an open mic, ahead of the Brooklyn Book Festival, at the Old Stone House in Park Slope. 8 p.m. [$5 suggested donation]

- Linda Ronstadt speaks at the 92nd Street Y. 8 p.m. [Ticket info]

- For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.

IN THE NEWS

- Bill de Blasio leads Joseph J. Lhota by more than 40 points in a new poll. [New York Times]

- The Board of Elections, meanwhile, does not know when it will finish counting votes from last week’s primary. [New York Times]

- Non-living wages: more than a quarter of families in city homeless shelters include at least one employed adult. [New York Times]

- The Bank of Iran held a 40-percent secret stake in an office tower near Rockefeller Center, a federal judge ruled. Prosecutors are trying to seize the building in what they say would be the “largest-ever terrorism-related forfeiture.” [Gawker]

- A fatal stabbing in Queens is being investigated as a hate crime after the suspect told detectives the victim blew kisses at him. [New York Times]

- A 23-year-old has been charged in last month’s hate-crime attack on a gay couple outside a Chelsea movie theater. [CBS New York]

- Tickets for the best seats at New York’s first Super Bowl will cost $2,600 â€" more than twice as much as ever before. [Wall Street Journal]

- Mayor Bloomberg has gotten 37 percent richer in the last two years, according to the Forbes 400 list. [Village Voice]

- Anthony Weiner takes a turn as political commentator on NY1. [Daily News]

- Jerry Seinfeld called the Mets game on TV last night. It didn’t help. They fell to the Giants 8-4. [The Big Lead]

- The Yankees’ playoff hopes dimmed further as they lost to last-place Toronto 2-0. [New York Times]

- Counting the seconds until Mayor Bloomberg leaves office? So is this Web site.

AND FINALLY…

On this date in 1851, the first edition of The New-York Daily Times was published. It cost one cent and was the ancestor to what you are reading now.

The city was full of news back then.

The new fountain in Washington Square, the paper reported, “gets on toward completion with moderate speed.”

A woman in bloomers was spotted on Sixth Avenue.

Two murderous Frenchmen were to be executed in the City Prison yard. A man was run over by an ice cart on Spring Street.

But it was the strangely Henry-Jamesian weather story, or lack thereof, occasioned by the breaking news of President Fillmore’s speech in Boston, that really caught our eye.

“The weather was the theme upon which we hinged an item for our morning edition,” the editors wrote, “but we have been forced to forego the infliction of it upon the public, by the proceedings of the Boston Jubilee, which our special correspondent has forwarded us. Never mind, the President cannot always be lionizing through the country, and as soon as he returns home we shall endeavor to do this important subject full justice.”

Joseph Burgess contributed reporting.

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