New York Today: Mayoral Misfits

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Bored by the mayoral race?

You haven’t met the lesser-known candidates on the ballot.

There’s the “political impressionist” Randy A. Credico of the “Tax Wall Street Party.”

“I’m the mimic,” Mr. Credico said. “But de Blasio picked up a lot of my rhetoric, about taxing Wall Street and changing the criminal-justice system.”

To run for mayor, a candidate must submit petitions with at least 3,750 signatures.

Fifteen people have made it onto next Tuesday’s ballot.

They include Jimmy McMillan of the “Rent is Too Damn High” party.

Then there is Michael J. Dilger, founder of the “Flourish Everyone Can Shine Like the Sun” party.

Asked about his party’s name, Mr. Dilger paused.

He was ordering a slice of pepperoni pizza. It had been a long day selling comedy tickets in Times Square.

The name, he said, came from his Jesuit education, and a belief that every person’s potential is limitless.

Still, Mr. Dilger expressed confusion about whether his petitions had been certified.

“I’m on the ballot â€" are you sure?” he asked.

(Yes, we’re sure.)

Here’s what else you need to know for Tuesday, the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy.

WEATHER

Patchy sun, with a high of 53. But enjoy it. The rest of the week looks gloomy.

COMMUTE

Subways: Fine so far. Click for latest status.

Rails: O.K. Click for L.I.R.R., Metro-North or New Jersey Transit status.

Roads: Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s.

Alternate-side parking is in effect through Thursday but suspended Friday.

COMING UP TODAY

Hurricane Sandy Anniversary

- Entrances to the R train in Brooklyn and to A-train stations south of Howard Beach in Queens will be free all day. You’re on your honor not to get on any connecting trains.

- Volunteers will plant beach grass on dunes at Breezy Point in the Rockaways to help them withstand storm surges, from morning till afternoon.

- Joseph J. Lhota is on the John Gambling radio show on WOR-AM (710) at 7:10 a.m. Then he helps plant beach grass at Breezy Point and attends remembrance services in Staten Island and Queens.

- Bill de Blasio speaks at storm remembrances in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and on Staten Island.

- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg visits shoreline-hardening projects in Staten Island and Queens and speaks at the site of a new levee in Coney Island at 11:30 a.m.

- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo tours places damaged by the storm in Lower Manhattan and Queens, then speaks at a gas station on Long Island.

- Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey leads a prayer service at a Baptist church in Newark at 10 a.m.

- A exhibit of more than 200 photos, “Rising Waters,” opens at the Museum of the City of New York.

- A mural by senior citizens commemorating the storm is unveiled on the Coney Island boardwalk.

- There will be candlelight vigils along the shoreline all around the region. Manhattan’s begins at 6:45 in East River Park in the East Village.

- Staten Island’s vigil is at 7:45 p.m., all along the South Shore. But before, people will walk, eat, pray.

- Brooklyn will be lit up, too. Get to one of these spots by 6:30 p.m.

- A vigil on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway at 7:30 p.m.

- At 8 p.m., there will be a moment of silence across the state.

Non-Hurricane

- The Landmarks Preservation Commission votes on whether to extend the Park Slope Historic District.

- A State Senate education committee public hearing on changes to the Regents tests, at 250 Broadway Downtown.

- The New York Civil Liberties Union releases a report on the provocative theme “How School Discipline Feeds the School-to-Prison Pipeline.”

- The fledgling and still-unhoused Filipino American Museum has its first event, a sound-and-light performance at Third Streaming gallery in SoHo. 7 p.m. [Free]

- Foreign-policy panels at N.Y.U. one on relations with Iran, at 6 p.m., one on drone strikes at 6:30 p.m. [Free]

- Will Self and Martin Amis converse at McNally Jackson Books in SoHo. 7 p.m. [Free]

- The noted partying authority Andrew W.K. delivers a “special party lecture” at the Bedford + Bowery Newsroom in Williamsburg. 7 p.m. [Free, R.S.V.P.]

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

IN THE NEWS

- The state attorney general’s office sent letters to Barney’s and Macy’s seeking information on their security procedures, after accusations of racial profiling of shoppers. [Daily News]

- Poll: New York City voters favor casino expansion in the state, but not in their backyards. [New York Times]

- Mr. de Blasio’s tenants seem to like him as a landlord. [New York Times]

- A Jewish deliveryman won a $900,000 verdict against a Midtown restaurant for years of anti-Semitic harassment. [New York Post]

- An appreciation of Staten Island pizza from the food critic Robert Sietsema. [New York Times]

- Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the demolition of the original Penn Station. Atlantic Cities has a photo tribute.

- Scoreboard: Rangers lose belated home opener to Canadiens, 2-0.

AND FINALLY…

This time last year, Hurricane Sandy was heading for New York.

By mid-morning the city was shutting down. Trains had stopped running.

Union Square was deserted.

There, we came across a man holding a cup of coffee.

Instead of gloves, he wore socks on his hands.

We asked who he was.

Karem Kosse, 40. He had come from Mali, in the hold of a ship.

This was scarier, he said.

He had nowhere to go.

We wrote the address of the nearest shelter on a business card, wished him luck.

A day later, we received this voicemail:

“You give me the address to look for some place to sleep. You were very kind. We’ve stayed there for awhile.”

We could hear voices in the background. A crowded room.

“I pray for you,” he said before hanging up.

“You pray for me.”

Joseph Burgess and Andy Newman contributed reporting.

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