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Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include the mayoral candidates having a sleepover in public housing, a shark hunt in Montauk, N.Y., and a commute on Manhattan’s High Line.

This weekend on “The New York Times Close Up,” an inside look at the most compelling articles in the Sunday newspaper, Sam Roberts will speak with The Times’s Michael Powell, David W. Chen and Eleanor Randolph. Also, William Thompson Jr., a mayoral candidate, and Linda Fairstein, an author. Tune in at 10 p.m. Saturday or 10 a.m. Sunday on NY1 News to watch.

A sampling from the City Room blog is featured daily in the main print news section of The Times. You may also read current New York headlines, like New York Metro | The New York Times on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

Popcast: Pitchfork Post-Mortem

Taylor Glascock for The New York Times R. Kelly performing at the Pitchfork Music Festival on Sunday.

This week: Pitchfork VII and the broadening of indie taste.

Our pop critic Jon Caramanica traveled to sweaty Chicago last weekend for the Pitchfork Music Festival, presented by the influential Web site of the same name, and took the measure of the current indie-music mindset. That mindset, as he relates in a conversation with Ben Ratliff, has lots of time for dance music â€" whether abstract (Andy Stott), airy (Solange), or near-mainstream (Ryan Hemsworth’s DJ set); has a lot less time for guitar bands, some of whom seemed comparatively sallow and full of “antiwit,” as Mr. Caramanica wrote; embraces rappers with original charisma (Lil B) or local cred (Tree); and can now accommodate not only “global-scale cult acts” like M.I.A. and Bjork, but the bona fide pop star and local hero, R. Kelly, Sunday night’s closing act.

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Jane Austen Bank Note Earns Huzzahs and Nitpicking

Reuters The Jane Austen £10 note is scheduled to be issued in 2017.

The news that Jane Austen would become only the third woman, besides Queen Elizabeth II, to appear on a British bank note drew almost as many huzzahs this week as the birth of the royal baby.

The announcement signified “a brilliant day for women,” Caroline Criado-Perez, the feminist blogger who helped start the petition drive to add a woman to British currency, told The Guardian.

But now, the nitpicking has begun. On Thursday, John Mullan, a professor of English at University College London, wrote a blog post on the Guardian’s Web site assailing the quotation chosen for the note, which will begin circulating in 2017, as a “blunder.”

The words “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!” Mr. Mullen pointed out, were actually spoken by Caroline Bingley, a minxy conniver who sidles up to Mr. Darcy in “Pride and Prejudice” and merely pretends to read a book to impress him.

“Duplicated many million times on the bank note will be a line in praise of reading that, comically, could only be used by someone who didn’t mean a word of it,” Mr. Mullan wrote. “Time for a campaign to use a different quotation?”

Mr. Mullan’s post drew hundreds of comments, including some suggesting alternatives, like Elizabeth Bennet’s “What are men to rocks and mountains?” or “Whims and consistencies do divert me.” (Dear readers: Any better ideas?)

But others in their comments made a backhanded defense of the Bank of England’s choice. “Caroline Bingley’s crass materialism is a perfect fit for a bank note â€" the ultimate symbol of crass materialism,” one wrote. “And, just as Caroline Bingley cannot appreciate the real worth of books, so is the case with cash money which, much like Caroline, puts a value on everything but knows the worth of nothing.”

Jane Austen Bank Note Earns Huzzahs, Nitpicking

Reuters The Jane Austen £10 note is scheduled to be issued in 2017.

The news that Jane Austen would become only the third woman, besides Queen Elizabeth II, to appear on a British bank note drew almost as many huzzahs this week as the birth of the royal baby.

The announcement signified “a brilliant day for women,” Caroline Criado-Perez, the feminist blogger who helped start the petition drive to add a woman to British currency, told The Guardian.

But now, the nitpicking has begun. On Thursday, John Mullan, a professor of English at University College London, wrote a blog post on the Guardian’s Web site assailing the quotation chosen for the note, which will begin circulating in 2017, as a “blunder.”

The words “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!” Mr. Mullen pointed out, were actually spoken by Caroline Bingley, a minxy conniver who sidles up to Mr. Darcy in “Pride and Prejudice” and merely pretends to read a book to impress him.

“Duplicated many million times on the bank note will be a line in praise of reading that, comically, could only be used by someone who didn’t mean a word of it,” Mr. Mullan wrote. “Time for a campaign to use a different quotation?”

Mr. Mullan’s post drew hundreds of comments, including some suggesting alternatives, like Elizabeth Bennet’s “What are men to rocks and mountains?” or “Whims and consistencies do divert me.” (Dear readers: Any better ideas?)

But others in their comments made a backhanded defense of the Bank of England’s choice. “Caroline Bingley’s crass materialism is a perfect fit for a bank note â€" the ultimate symbol of crass materialism,” one wrote. “And, just as Caroline Bingley cannot appreciate the real worth of books, so is the case with cash money which, much like Caroline, puts a value on everything but knows the worth of nothing.”

Jane Austen Banknote Earns Huzzahs, Nitpicking

Reuters The Jane Austen £10 note is scheduled to be issued in 2017.

The news that Jane Austen would become only the third woman, besides Queen Elizabeth II, to appear on a British bank note drew almost as many huzzahs earlier this week as the birth of the royal baby.

The announcement marked “a brilliant day for women,” Caroline Criado-Perez, the feminist blogger who helped start the petition drive to add a woman to British currency, told The Guardian.

But now, the nitpicking has begun. On Thursday, John Mullan, a professor of English at University College London, wrote a blog post on the Guardian’s Web site assailing the quotation chosen for the note, which will begin circulating in 2017, as a “blunder.”

The words “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!” Mr. Mullen pointed out, were actually spoken by Caroline Bingley, a minxy conniver who sidles up to Mr. Darcy in “Pride and Prejudice” and merely pretends to read a book in order to impress him.

“Duplicated many million times on the banknote will be a line in praise of reading that, comically, could only be used by someone who didn’t mean a word of it,” Mr. Mullan wrote. “Time for a campaign to use a different quotation?”

Mr. Mullan’s post drew hundreds of comments, including some suggesting alternatives, like Elizabeth Bennet’s “What are men to rocks and mountains?” or “Whims and consistencies do divert me.” (Dear readers: any better ideas?)

But other commenters made a backhanded defense of the Bank of England’s choice. “Caroline Bingley’s crass materialism is a perfect fit for a bank note â€" the ultimate symbol of crass materialism,” one commenter wrote. “And, just as Caroline Bingley cannot appreciate the real worth of books, so is the case with cash money which, much like Caroline, puts a value on everything but knows the worth of nothing.”

Big Ticket | An Heiress’s Private Sale Yields $21.85 Million

Marilyn K. Yee/The New York Times A penthouse near the top of the Trump International Hotel and Tower has views of Central Park, the Hudson River and Columbus Circle.

A penthouse near the peak of the Trump International Hotel and Tower with double corner exposures providing “cinematic” views of Central Park and the Hudson River as well as the action at Columbus Circle sold for $21.85 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.

The 4,489-square-foot residence, PH48A, at the shimmering Philip Johnson/Costas Kondylis redesign of the former Gulf and Western Building at 1 Central Park West, has four bedrooms, six baths and a powder room.

The foyer opens onto a corner living room, adjacent to a formal dining room and a library with park views; the apartment also has an eat-in kitchen, a staff suite with a laundry area, and two guest bedrooms with en-suite baths and Hudson River views. The master suite, in the western wing, has a wall of west-facing windows, three walk-in closets and two full baths. It shares the wing with an additional bedroom suite.

The penthouse was apparently part of a 20,000-square-foot triplex of apartments acquired since 1997 by Elizabeth Ross Johnson, an heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. Ms. Johnson, an avid collector of husbands, art and city real estate, including a West Village town house once owned by Meryl Streep and an Upper East Side mansion where Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt had lived, sold the penthouse privately through her personal trust, the Elizabeth Ross Johnson Amended and Restated Trust.

The anonymous buyer used a limited-liability company, Unit 48A CPW. There do not seem to have been any brokers involved in the transaction, according to Paula Del Nunzio of Brown Harris Stevens, who had listed the unit with Pamela D’Arc of Stribling and Associates for $24 million in 2011, at which time the monthly carrying charges were $13,318. Ms. D’Arc confirmed that she did not participate in the sale.

Ms. Johnson had previously opted for a no-broker negotiation in 2011 when she agreed to pay $48 million for the former Vanderbilt mansion at 16 East 69th Street, which was then owned by another heiress and socialite, Sloan Lindemann Barnett, and her husband, Roger Barnett. Presumably cutting out the middleman in real estate trades is a penny-pinching tradition perfected by heiresses.

The Trump International Hotel and Tower, a 1997 conversion, has a private lobby for its condominium units, and the hotel’s amenities, including maid service, room service, a spa and health club, a roof deck, and the celebrated restaurant Jean-Georges, are available to residents.

The week’s second-most-expensive sale involved a very different breed of condominium on the Upper East Side: a triplex plus a roof terrace atop a landmark six-story limestone mansion at 20 East 65th Street. The residence was built in 1880, modified in 1901, and split in half to create a pair of condos in 2006. The most recent asking price for this space, Unit B â€" a 6,500-square-foot ode to whimsical modernity after an internal redesign by Richard Perry and Jonathan Adler â€" was $18,337,500. It sold for $18,237,500. When it was on the market at $19 million in 2011, the monthly carrying charges were listed as $8,107.

The residence, on a prime block off Fifth Avenue, is entered through a Thassos stone lobby and has a “one-of-a-kind” private hydraulic elevator; a doorman/concierge security station was added to the front of the 25-foot-wide mansion when it underwent the conversion to two condo units.

There are five gas fireplaces, pocket doors on the living-room level, a dining room with Bisazza terrazzo flooring, and an open Boffi chef’s kitchen. For fans of suede that doubles as wallpaper, the home office has Ultrasuede walls and a 16-foot-high ceiling.

The master suite has 12-foot ceilings and opens onto a 500-square-foot south-facing terrace. The roof deck has 968 square feet. There is a custom AMX system throughout the unit, which raises artwork to reveal television screens and speakers at the push of a button. That amenity was not available when the mansion was renovated in 1901 to accommodate the taste of Edward Nathan Gibbs, the treasurer of the New York City Life Insurance Company.

The seller, the fashionista Peri Arenas, was represented by Joan Swift of Douglas Elliman Real Estate. The buyer used a bland limited-liability moniker, 2065 NY, and Ms. Swift declined to identify the broker who represented the buyer.

Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.

Book Review Podcast: When America Entered the ‘Good War’

Barry Blitt

In The New York Times Book Review, Jacob Heilbrunn considers two new books that revisit the arguments over America’s entrance into World War II: “Those Angry Days,” by Lynne Olson, and “1940,” by Susan Dunn. Mr. Heilbrunn writes:

Now that it has become the good war fought by the greatest generation, the ferocity of the disputes over entering World War II has largely been forgotten. But the story of America’s anti-interventionist lobby is not only historically fascinating, it also echoes in debates today over whether America should engage abroad or hold back. The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. â€" whose memoir, Philip Roth said, inspired his novel “The Plot Against America,” about an alternative reality where the isolationists, led by Charles Lindbergh, defeat Roose¬velt for the presidency â€" recalled the dispute as the “most savage political debate in my lifetime,” eclipsing those over McCarthyism and Vietnam in its intensity.

On this week’s podcast, Ms. Olson discusses “Those Angry Days”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Mark Leibovich talks about “This Town”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

No Parole for Imprisoned Members of Pussy Riot

The two members of the Russian activist collective Pussy Riot who remain imprisoned were both denied parole this week. On Friday, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was told by a court in Saransk that she had not sufficiently repented for her act of “hooliganism” in performing at a Moscow Orthodox cathedral last year.  Maria Alyokhina received similar news from a court in Perm on Wednesday. Both are being held in prisons near their courts, and are not expected to be released until next year.

Ms. Tolokonnikova appeared in court to testify but Ms. Alyokhina, who recently undertook what she said was a successful hunger strike to protest conditions in prison, was permitted to speak only via video link. Supporters of the group, who received international notoriety for a 40-second anti-Kremlin “punk prayer” in the cathedral, had hoped that their sentences would be commuted; a third imprisoned member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released in October.

Last week Amnesty International issued an open letter calling for the women’s release; it was signed by more than 100 musicians and artists, including Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Harry Styles and Adele.

Artistically, the collective, known for pop-up appearances in bright dresses and balaclavas, has been relatively silent as the Russian government has drafted laws seemingly aimed at them, from barring the wearing of masks in public to a blasphemy bill that stiffens the penalty for insulting religion. A video released last week that appeared to be by Pussy Riot - promoted via YouTube and Twitter accounts associated with the group  - was in fact by impostors, according to a message posted later on FreePussyRiot.org. 

“As we struggle against the system in the courts and prisons, and thus do not have the opportunity to perform new actions, a group of anonymous activists presented a gift to us â€" by releasing a music video,” the message said. It went on to support the sentiments in the video - which lambasted President Vladimir V. Putin, his allies, and the misappropriation of oil wealth - while also distancing Pussy Riot from lesser imitators.

“Those who want to help us, may not take possession of our ideas in order to pervert them from inside and then chase us out of the group using our openness and anonymity as an argument,” the message read. “If the new group is able to copy all that what we have created in a better way, we will welcome them joyfully.”

The Sweet Spot: Why Netflix Matters

In this week’s episode, A. O. Scott and David Carr talk about Netflix’s amazing evolution, and how people are watching its critically acclaimed shows.

What Inspired You to Work in Pop Music?

This summer, The New York Times is publishing essays by its critics about the moments or works that prompted them to write about the arts â€" along with stories from readers about their own epiphanies. Previously we heard from readers who work in television, classical music and dance.

Next week, Ben Ratliff will write about what set him on the path toward becoming a pop and jazz critic for The Times. We want to hear from pop music professionals about what inspired their careers.

Whether you’re an artist with a freshly-inked record contract, an A&R scout, a talent agent, a booker, a programmer for an online music service, a record producer, a touring back-up singer, or any other pop music professional, we want to hear about the record, performance or other experience that led you to dedicate yourself to the art form.

Please submit a comment below describing what you do and how a pop music experience led you to your career; keep submissions under 250 words.

We will present some of your stories alongside Mr. Ratliff’s essay. We look forward to reading about your pop music inspirations.

New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Legacy Falls’

Springfield is gone. Port Charles isn’t what it used to be. But thanks to the New York Musical Theater Festival, the namesake setting of “Legacy Falls” can fill in for those other fictional soap-opera towns. Even if a character-killing earthquake is planned for the show’s special live episode.

“Legacy Falls” is James Burn and Ian Poitier’s daffy new musical as well as the title of the ratings-troubled daytime drama whose off-screen travails it depicts. Our sympathetic hero is the handsomely aging Edward Trafford (Kevin Spirtas), an actor with regrets. In his youth he accepted a soap-opera role, and here he is, 30 years later, singing, “I’ll play Jack Monroe until one of us dies.”

From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Spirtas was Dr. Craig Wesley on “Days of Our Lives,” so he knows whereof he speaks. Incidentally, his lush singing voice could charm grizzly bears.

There’s a toss-up for most despicable villain. Everlon (Dennis Holland), the show’s narrow-minded and arrogant sponsor, has to win, I suppose, but Fleur (Rachel Stern), the invasive television journalist, does almost as much damage. Frankie (Erin Leigh Peck), the new executive who announces big changes for the soap, turns out to be not all that bad.

Mr. Burn and Mr. Poitier’s lively book owes something to the movies “Soapdish” and “Tootsie” (same live-episode device). And while the show, directed by Mr. Poitier, is thoroughly entertaining, it displays a mild personality disorder. There is no reason “Legacy Falls” can’t be both a touching contemporary romance and an absurdist comedy, but at this point in its development the coexistence is shaky. (The musical’s festival run ended on Wednesday.)

Mr. Burn wrote the music and lyrics, and there is real charm in such such numbers as “The Men From the Network” (although it makes no sense that the TV executives look like Secret Service agents) and “Somebody’s Gonna Get Killed,” sung by three actresses (Tara Hugo, Nikki Van Cassele and Liz Fye) terrified of being written off the show.

Ms. Hugo grabs the aging-glamour essence of the daytime-drama grande dame in every one of her scenes. And “Usually,” sung by Mr. Spirtas and Wilson Bridges, as the sexy younger guy who has entered his life, may be the loveliest man-on-man morning-after romantic ballad this side of “Brokeback Mountain.”

New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Legacy Falls’

Springfield is gone. Port Charles isn’t what it used to be. But thanks to the New York Musical Theater Festival, the namesake setting of “Legacy Falls” can fill in for those other fictional soap-opera towns. Even if a character-killing earthquake is planned for the show’s special live episode.

“Legacy Falls” is James Burn and Ian Poitier’s daffy new musical as well as the title of the ratings-troubled daytime drama whose off-screen travails it depicts. Our sympathetic hero is the handsomely aging Edward Trafford (Kevin Spirtas), an actor with regrets. In his youth he accepted a soap-opera role, and here he is, 30 years later, singing, “I’ll play Jack Monroe until one of us dies.”

From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Spirtas was Dr. Craig Wesley on “Days of Our Lives,” so he knows whereof he speaks. Incidentally, his lush singing voice could charm grizzly bears.

There’s a toss-up for most despicable villain. Everlon (Dennis Holland), the show’s narrow-minded and arrogant sponsor, has to win, I suppose, but Fleur (Rachel Stern), the invasive television journalist, does almost as much damage. Frankie (Erin Leigh Peck), the new executive who announces big changes for the soap, turns out to be not all that bad.

Mr. Burn and Mr. Poitier’s lively book owes something to the movies “Soapdish” and “Tootsie” (same live-episode device). And while the show, directed by Mr. Poitier, is thoroughly entertaining, it displays a mild personality disorder. There is no reason “Legacy Falls” can’t be both a touching contemporary romance and an absurdist comedy, but at this point in its development the coexistence is shaky. (The musical’s festival run ended on Wednesday.)

Mr. Burn wrote the music and lyrics, and there is real charm in such such numbers as “The Men From the Network” (although it makes no sense that the TV executives look like Secret Service agents) and “Somebody’s Gonna Get Killed,” sung by three actresses (Tara Hugo, Nikki Van Cassele and Liz Fye) terrified of being written off the show.

Ms. Hugo grabs the aging-glamour essence of the daytime-drama grande dame in every one of her scenes. And “Usually,” sung by Mr. Spirtas and Wilson Bridges, as the sexy younger guy who has entered his life, may be the loveliest man-on-man morning-after romantic ballad this side of “Brokeback Mountain.”

Conductor, Recovering From Concussion, Is Still Scheduled for ‘Lohengrin’ at Bayreuth

Winslow Townson/Associated Press Andris Nelsons, who is to become music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2014, throwing out the first pitch at a Red Sox game in June.

Andris Nelsons, the music director designate of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was hospitalized last weekend in Bayreuth with what was described as a severe concussion, has been released and is continuing his recovery at his home in Bayreuth, the orchestra said on Thursday.

Mr. Nelsons’ injury caused him to withdraw from the performance of the Verdi Requiem that he was to have conducted at Tanglewood on Saturday evening. It was to have been his only appearance at Tanglewood this summer. (Carlo Montanaro will conduct in his place).

“He is expected to make a full recovery in good time,” Mark Volpe, the Boston Symphony’s managing director, said in a statement on Thursday, “and currently his doctors in Germany are advising him to rest and take each day as it comes. Mr. Nelsons’ doctors will advise him soon on when he will be ready to return to the podium.”

Soon is the operative word: Mr. Nelsons is scheduled to lead “Lohengrin” at the Bayreuth Festival, starting on Aug. 2 (with other performances on Aug. 5, 8, 11 and 26). The festival’s Web site still lists him as the conductor of the production, and Linda Wagentristl, a spokeswoman for the festival, did not seem concerned that he might not be able to perform.

“Andris Nelsons is doing well and looking forward to conduct ‘Lohengrin’ on 2 August,” was Ms. Wagentristl’s response, in an e-mail, to questions about whether the conductor would be ready. “Yes, he has been at Bayreuth to begin the rehearsals.”

Conductor Recovering From Concussion, Still Scheduled for ‘Lohengrin’ at Bayreuth

Winslow Townson/Associated Press Andris Nelsons, who is to become music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2014, throwing out the first pitch at a Red Sox game in June.

Andris Nelsons, the music director designate of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was hospitalized last weekend in Bayreuth with what was described as a severe concussion, has been released and is continuing his recovery at his home in Bayreuth, the orchestra said on Thursday.

Mr. Nelsons’s injury caused him to withdraw from the performance of the Verdi Requiem that he was to have conducted at Tanglewood on Saturday evening. It was to have been his only appearance at Tanglewood this summer. (Carlo Montanaro will conduct in his place).

“He is expected to make a full recovery in good time,” Mark Volpe, the Boston Symphony’s managing director said in a statement on Thursday, “and currently his doctors in Germany are advising him to rest and take each day as it comes. Mr. Nelsons’ doctors will advise him soon on when he will be ready to return to the podium.”

Soon is the operative word: Mr. Nelsons is scheduled to lead “Lohengrin” at the Bayreuth Festival, starting on Aug. 2 (with further performances on Aug. 5, 8, 11 and 26). The festival’s Web site still lists him as the conductor of the production, and Linda Wagentristl, a spokeswoman for the festival did not seem concerned that he might not be able to perform.

“Andris Nelsons is doing well and looking forward to conduct ‘Lohengrin’ on 2 August,” was Ms. Wagentristl’s response, in an email, to questions about whether the conductor would be ready. “Yes, he has been at Bayreuth to begin the rehearsals.”

July 26: Where the Candidates Are Today

Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Joseph Burgess and Nicholas Wells contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.

Events by candidate

Albanese

De Blasio

Liu

Quinn

Weiner

Group event

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

7:45 a.m.
Greets commuters, at the Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway subway station on Glenwood Road.

12 p.m.
Joins a rally for a restructuring plan for Interfaith Medical Center, which, like another Brooklyn hospital, Long Island College Hospital, is under threat of closing. Also attending will be union representatives and one of Mr. de Blasio’s former aides, a protégé of the Rev. Al Sharpton now running for City Council, Kirsten John Foy, at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

1:30 p.m.
Holds news conference to outline his plan for a “living wage” law, at 10th Avenue and West 30th Street.

3 p.m.
Greets voters with Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito, at the 116th Street subway station on Lexington Avenue in East Harlem.

5 p.m.
Delivers remarks at a rally hosted by Local 1199 S.E.I.U., which endorsed him in May, at Accent Care headquarters in Bronxdale.

6:15 p.m.
Cheers on the “de Blasio” basketball team, at Kenny Graham’s West Fourth Street Basketball Tournament at the Cage.

7:15 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at Celebrate Brooklyn!, featuring Trampled by Turtles, the Devil Makes Three and River City Extension, at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn.

John C. Liu
Democrat

7 a.m.
Greets commuters at the Nostrand Avenue subway station on Fulton Street, in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

4 p.m.
Tours small businesses in Lower Manhattan, starting at Lafayette and Canal Streets.

5:30 p.m.
Greets commuters, at the Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College subway station in Flatbush.

7 p.m.
Greets voters, in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

8:15 p.m.
Attends an Iftar, the traditional evening meal for Muslims to break the fast during Ramadan, with the Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development, at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Washington Heights.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

7:30 a.m.
Greets commuters with City Councilman Vincent Gentile, and advises subway riders about alternate routes when the M.T.A. shuts the Montague Street R Line tunnel, at the 95th Street subway station in Bay Ridge.

10:30 a.m.
Announces her plan for a new triborough bus service to shuttle riders among Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, at the Court Square subway station in Long Island City.

Some of Ms. Quinn’s events may not be shown because the campaign declines to release her advance schedule for publication.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

2:45 p.m.
Meets with workers from the Construct Relief Foundation, a nonprofit born out of Hurricane Sandy, to tour homes that had suffered damage, in the Tottenville section of Staten Island.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

12:30 p.m.
Visits with seniors citizens, at the Penn Wortman Senior Center in East New York.

1 p.m.
Visits with merchants, along Avenue J, starting with Ostrovitsky’s Kosher Bakery, where, his campaign predicts, “of course, he’ll grab a black-and-white cookie,” in Midwood.

6 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at Celebrate Brooklyn! featuring Trampled by Turtles, the Devil Makes Three and River City Extension, at the Prospect Park bandshell in Brooklyn.

7:30 p.m.
Greets voters at the South Slope Weekend Walk’s street fair, on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope.

8 p.m.
Close to home, talks to voters at the Summer Stroll in Bay Ridge, along Third Avenue.

Readers with information about events involving the mayoral candidates are invited to send details and suggestions for coverage to cowan@nytimes.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @cowannyt.

Video Reviews of ‘Blue Jasmine,’ ‘The Wolverine’ and ‘The To Do List’

In this week’s video, Times critics offer their takes on “Blue Jasmine,” “The Wolverine” and “The To Do List.” See all of this week’s reviews here.

New Cabby Needs Better Map

Dear Diary:

My belief that New Yorkers know it all was sadly modified on a recent visit from Miami.

Leaving the public library, I hailed a taxi and gave the driver my Greenwich Village hotel address. Several minutes went by as he fiddled with the GPS map and then said: “Lady, this is my first day and I don’t know where you are going. Please get out.”

As I exited the cab I wished him good luck, thinking he would certainly need it.

Read all recent entries and our updated submissions guidelines. Reach us via e-mail diary@nytimes.com or follow @NYTMetro on Twitter using the hashtag #MetDiary.

Steven Soderbergh Will Direct New Cinemax Series ‘The Knick’

Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press The director Steven Soderbergh, who said he has retired from the big screen.

If self-proclaimed retiree Steven Soderbergh continues to work any harder he’s going to put himself in the hospital, which maybe was his plan all along. For his latest project since a series of declarations that he was at least stepping away from feature filmmaking, Mr. Soderbergh, the Academy Award-winning director of films like “Traffic” and “Side Effects” and a newly minted Emmy nominee for “Behind the Candelabra,” will direct the first 10-episode season of a new Cinemax series called “The Knick,” set in a New York hospital in the year 1900.

Cinemax said in a news release that “The Knick” would star Clive Owen, whose films include “Gosford Park” and “Children of Men,” and would take place at Knickerbocker Hospital amid “the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff, who push the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.” Mr. Soderbergh will also be an executive producer on the series, whose pilot episode is written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler (“Big Miracle,” “Raising Helen”). Production of the series is expected to begin in New York in September, and it is planned to have its debut next year, by which time we expect Mr. Soderbergh to be committed to a dozen new projects.

Steven Soderbergh Will Direct New Cinemax Series ‘The Knick’

Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press The director Steven Soderbergh, who said he has retired from the big screen.

If self-proclaimed retiree Steven Soderbergh continues to work any harder he’s going to put himself in the hospital, which maybe was his plan all along. For his latest project since a series of declarations that he was at least stepping away from feature filmmaking, Mr. Soderbergh, the Academy Award-winning director of films like “Traffic” and “Side Effects” and a newly minted Emmy nominee for “Behind the Candelabra,” will direct the first 10-episode season of a new Cinemax series called “The Knick,” set in a New York hospital in the year 1900.

Cinemax said in a news release that “The Knick” would star Clive Owen, whose films include “Gosford Park” and “Children of Men,” and would take place at Knickerbocker Hospital amid “the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff, who push the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.” Mr. Soderbergh will also be an executive producer on the series, whose pilot episode is written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler (“Big Miracle,” “Raising Helen”). Production of the series is expected to begin in New York in September, and it is planned to have its debut next year, by which time we expect Mr. Soderbergh to be committed to a dozen new projects.

New York Today: The Beat Goes On

Uli Seit for The New York Times The Queens County Farm Museum is hosting a Native American pow wow.

The thud, thud, thud of a Native American pow-wow drum will boom from Queens on Friday night and all weekend.

More than 40 tribes are gathering in the apple orchard at the Queens County Farm Museum for a dance-off, with the public invited.

New York State has one of the country’s largest populations of Native Americans, according to the Census.

At the pow-wow’s center is a giant drum, hammered by six or eight people simultaneously.

“It’s not the kind of sound you would hear in most Hollywood movies â€" what people think of as Native American music,” said Solomon Mendelsohn, a member of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, which is throwing the pow-wow. “It’s not that at all. It’s the real thing.”

“The drum is considered the heartbeat of the American Indian people,” he added.

There will also be crafts and food. Proceeds go to charity.

WEATHER

Friday and Saturday will be delightful, sunny with highs in the mid 80s. (There’s a slight chance of thunderstorms on Saturday.) Sunday is another story: mid 80s, but stormy. Click for current forecast.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Roads Traffic is mostly O.K. Click for the latest status.

- Alternate side parking is in effect.

- Mass Transit Delays on the F line. Click for the latest status.

COMING UP TODAY

- Workers at fast-food franchises in Brooklyn, including McDonald’s and Domino’s, intend to walk off the job at dinnertime, seeking better wages and conditions. [Daily News]

- Catch up on old episodes of “Breaking Bad” in advance of the TV show’s final season. The Film Society of Lincoln Center is screening a series marathon. Season 1 begins at 5 p.m. [Free]

- Watch “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” in a location that might impress Captain Kirk: the deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. There’s a space festival at the museum, too. [Free]

- Important: Ben & Jerry’s doles out free samples of new, NYC-themed ice cream from a truck at Hudson River Park’s Pier 57 at 5 p.m. [Free]

- The Hunters play honky-tonk at 7:30 p.m. among the chickens at Pleasant Village Community Garden on Pleasant Avenue in Manhattan, between East 118th and 119th Streets. [Free, $5 suggested donation] There are National Moth Week festivities on Friday and Saturday nights.

- Free admission to the Museum of Modern Art on Fridays from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m, where those who brave the line can catch the “Rain Room,” which is about to close. [Free]

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

IN THE NEWS

- The owner of the popular Brooklyn “Dumont” restaurants was found dead in Pennsylvania in an apparent suicide, police said. [New York Times]

- Anthony D. Weiner now says he had online sexual exchanges with 10 women, not six. [New York Times]

- Citi Bike riders can now rent helmets for their trips. They’re sanitized. [Gothamist]

- A hilly new park is coming to Governors Island, thanks to a $15 million gift from a Google executive. [CBS]

- A Wall Street coffee cart is serving up both coffee and potential mates. [DNA Info]

- A man with special needs died after he lashed out at police and was tasered. [NBC]

THE WEEKEND

SATURDAY

- Hit the Bushwick Block Party from noon to 11 p.m. on Moore Street. Games, food and a charity raffle, where in true Brooklyn style, you can win a slick bike. [Free]

- Hear a sonnet in the sun at the New York City Poetry Festival on Governors Island, all weekend, starting at 11 a.m. [Free, $10 suggested donation]

- Pogopalooza, the annual world championship for pogo sticks jumping. Need we say more? Tompkins Square Park at 1 p.m. (Finals on Sunday: Union Square, 1 p.m.) [Free]

- B.Y.O. mat to free yoga on the beach in Rockaway, Queens, at Beach 108th Street at 8 a.m. [Free]

- It’s Family Day on Hearst Plaza at Lincoln Center with performances for kids starting at noon. [Free]

- Watch the Annual Coney Island Talent Show on the boardwalk at 3 p.m. [Free]

SUNDAY

- The Rock Steady Crew, those Bronx-bred rap superstars, perform in Central Park at 3 p.m. [Free]

- The Brown Rice Family jams with jazz, afrobeat and funk on Pier 1 on the Upper West Side at 7 p.m. [Free]

- Fish are jumping and the weather is fine. Go catch and release fishing on the Harlem Meer in Central Park at 10 a.m. (You can borrow a pole.) [Free]

AND FINALLY…

It’s a girl… rhino.

On Thursday night, Jim Breheny, director of the Bronx Zoo, posted a picture of the zoo’s new baby Indian rhino. It is the 13th Indian rhino to be born there since 1986, Mr. Breheny wrote on Twitter.

She’s been much anticipated: Rhinos have one of the longest gestation periods, 450 days, or roughly 15 months, according to the World Wildlife Federation.

Michaelle Bond, Mona El-Naggar and E.C. Gogolak and contributed reporting.

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