Share Your Citi Bike Wedding Story

They have been used as resting places and makeshift gyms. They have also helped inebriated people get home and helped a mayoral candidate navigate the city.

Now, Citi Bikes are popping up on wedding days.

As reporter Matt Flegenheimer writes today:

In a conspicuous sign that frustration is giving way to acceptance, the public bikes have been welcomed into that most personal corner of civic life, the wedding.

At times, they have assumed the role of post-ceremony, honeymoon-bound transportation, missing only a “Just Married” placard on the back wheel. Photographers have compiled small portfolios of two-wheeled work, as the bikes have begun to appear, Waldo-like, in the albums of couples in reception regalia. And for those who have crossed the Atlantic to be married in New York City, accompanying snapshots of the bikes have become a must, joining Grand Central Terminal and the Brooklyn Bridge as oft-used backdrops.

We here at CityRoom would love to hear your Citi Bike wedding story.

Please leave a note in the comments section sharing your story, and please mention if you have any photos, videos, Vines, Instagrams or other media that we might not be aware of yet. A reporter or producer will follow up in the coming days.

The Week in Pictures for Oct. 11

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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 filming of a new sitcom, “Brooklyn Taxi”; a march over the Brooklyn Bridge; and a real estate developer at the top of his newest tower.

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 Bill Keller, Clyde Haberman and Michael Barbaro. Also, Terry Lenzner, an author, and Kenneth P. Thompson, a candidate for Brooklyn district attorney. Tune in at 10 p.m. Saturday or 10 a.m. Sunday on NY1 News to watch.

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Big Ticket | River Views for $9.495 Million

Benjamin Norman for The New York Times Superior Ink, built on the site of a 1919 factory, suffered damage to its mechanical systems caused by an influx of saltwater from Hurricane Sandy.

A glass aerie with 10-foot ceilings, ebony floors and sweeping views of the Hudson River, the Statue of Liberty and the George Washington Bridge from its 14th-story perch on the southwest corner of the Superior Ink building sold for $9.495 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.

The six-room condominium, No. 14B, had previously been shopped as a possible combination with the two other apartments on the floor but sold solo for its most recent full asking price.

The monthly carrying charges on the 2,169-square-foot unit are a relatively manageable $2,829, thanks to an extended tax abatement at the 17-story tower, which was designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects. Built on the site of a 1919 factory at 400 West 12th Street, the building has a prime riverfront locale that proved treacherous during the hyperactive hurricane season last year.

The well-heeled residents of Superior Ink â€" including the fashion designer Marc Jacobs and the actress Hilary Swank â€" preferring not to be displaced indefinitely while waiting for insurance reimbursements, last year ponied up a $1 million assessment to quickly remediate damage to the building’s mechanical systems caused by an influx of saltwater from Hurricane Sandy. Mr. Jacobs, who had bought one of the townhouse units, was sufficiently miffed by the inconvenience that he indicated he might move, and Leslie Alexander, the owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team, who in 2010 paid a then-record $31.5 million for the penthouse, did switch addresses to a more landlocked location, the $42 million penthouse at 18 Gramercy Park South, another of Robert A. M. Stern’s trophy creations.

No. 14B, which has three bedrooms and three and a half baths, and its neighboring units, Nos. 14A and 14C, were all owned by one seller, who bought them as sponsor units but never actually combined them. The three units found buyers in late summer, each for its most recent asking price, and all three sales were handled by Leslie Wilson, a senior vice president of Related Sales. No. 14C, one of the largest apartments in the building at 3,234 square feet, was the first to sell, at $14.25 million.

Nos. 14B and 14A, which were recorded as closed sales on the same day, with the same lawyer representing the buyer of both units, are presumably destined for combination. The publicity-shy seller used a limited-liability company, Super View, for the No. 14B transaction, and Stellar Vistas for the No. 14A sale, which closed for its $7.5 million asking price. The anonymous buyer also used limited-liability-company identities for the acquisitions, Warner for 14B and VDF for 14A, a three-bedroom, three-bath unit with 2,284 square feet of space and city views but the same loftlike ambience as 14B.

The week’s second-priciest sale, at $8 million after a bidding war that spiked its original asking price of $7.5 million, was a 1901 town house at 431 East 52nd Street with a unique provenance and layout as well as partial East River views. The town house, owned for decades by Alexander M. Lewyt, a vacuum cleaner inventor who also played a role in introducing the male populace to the joys of clip-on bow ties, and his wife, Elisabeth, a philanthropist and an avid collector of Impressionist art, had not been on the market for more than 60 years. The Lewyts, who were childless dog-lovers with a $65 million art collection, used the town house as a grand urban pied-à-terre to display their art (auctioned by Sotheby’s in May) and to entertain. They also owned an estate in Sands Point, on Long Island, where Mrs. Lewyt, widowed in 1988, died last December at age 99 with er canine companions at her side.

The town house, renovated to the couple’s specifications, has 12 rooms arranged on five floors: the kitchen and staff quarters are on the lowest; the foyer, powder room and dining room are on the first level; and an elaborate salon/living room with a marble fireplace occupies the parlor level. The entire third story is devoted to the master suite; a pine-paneled library with fireplace dominates the fourth story; and the top floor has a roof terrace and a guest suite.

Meredyth Hull Smith of Sotheby’s International Realty represented the coexecutors of the estate, the lawyer Thomas R. Amlicke and Mrs. Lewyt’s former personal assistant, Wendy S. McColgan, as well as the international buyer, who used a limited-liability company, White Peacock, to protect his identity.

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

A Rescue on the Subway Tracks

Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times

Dear Diary:

A Saturday in August, around 8 p.m. Waiting for an uptown No. 1 at Times Square. Feeling a bit faint, I lean against a pole.

(E-mail later from my aunt to my father): “I had placed a call to the Bellevue Hospital ER. I had identified myself as the physician-aunt requesting health information on my niece. The history as obtained from the bystanders was as follows: Naz was standing when she suddenly slumped over and fell on the train tracks. There were no signs of a seizure noted by the bystanders. It was a witnessed fall.”

“She fell down vertically, head first, covering a distance of approximately 5 feet 7 inches below her initial position. Four people immediately jumped down on the tracks. Blood was noted gushing from her forehead. Within a few seconds she was brought out and onto the platform.”

Back to Saturday, sometime after 8:20 p.m.: Sitting on the platform now, several people circling me, blood dripping from my forehead onto the ground. The police officer says an ambulance is coming … Wait, where are the people who saved me? Did I thank them?

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New York Today: Winging It

Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times One of the 500 stars of the butterfly show opening Saturday at the city’s natural history museum.

It is an annual migration.

Via FedEx.

For weeks, boxes of chrysalises have been arriving at the American Museum of Natural History.

On Saturday, their contents will be unveiled with a great fluttering of gossamer wings as the museum’s Butterfly Conservatory begins its 16th year.

More than 150 species will fill the lushly humid indoor garden until Memorial Day.

Footwide atlas moths in snake-face camouflage.

Paper kite butterflies in op-art patterns.

Ulysses swallowtails flashing electric-blue upper wings.

They alight on blossoms and branches, but also, delightfully, on sleeve and skin.

“Mostly they’re looking for food and water or mates,” said Hazel Davies, the museum’s associate director of living exhibits. “But if you do hang around in there, they like to drink up perspiration because it’s full of salt.

“They’re particularly fond of bald men’s heads.”

Here’s what else you need to know for Friday and the weekend.

WEATHER

Lots of clouds, a bit more rain and a high of 65.

The weekend is a mixed bag, like life itself. Sunshine and rain Saturday, rain and then sun Sunday. Nice all day Columbus Day, though.

COMMUTE

Subways: Fine so far. Click for latest status.

Rails: Fine so far. Click for L.I.R.R., Metro-North and New Jersey Transit status.

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

Alternate-side parking is in effect today but suspended Monday for Columbus Day.

COMING UP TODAY

- Bill de Blasio takes to the airwaves: on the labor leader Norman Seabrook’s show on WWRL-AM (1600) at 11:45 a.m., on WOR-AM (710) at 9:45 p.m., and on the premiere of “Up Late With Alec Baldwin” on MSNBC at 10 p.m.

- Joseph J. Lhota meets with Realtors in Staten Island, appears on PIX-11 news at 6:30 p.m. and attends a church festival in Queens.

- Tonight at midnight is the deadline to register to vote in the November election. Click to register online. Or by mail. Or go to one of these places.

- Snoop around a big, old house on the Upper East Side called Gracie Mansion as the weekend-long Historic House Trust Festival gets under way. It includes more than two dozen venerable buildings across the city. 5:30 p.m. [Free, reservation required]

- Jonathan Lethem speaks at N.Y.U., perhaps about his new novel, “Dissident Gardens.” 7 p.m. [Free]

- Horizons, an annual weekend-long conference on psychedelic drugs and their use in science, medicine and spirituality, kicks off with a reception at the Rubin Museum of Art on West 17th Street. 6 p.m.

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

IN THE NEWS

- Two Orthodox rabbis were arrested on charges that they ran a rather unorthodox business helping women persuade reluctant husbands to grant them a divorce. It allegedly included kidnapping and torturing the men for a fee of $50,000. [New York Times]

- A comeback of sorts in the polls for Mr. Lhota: he now trails Mr. de Blasio by 43 points, down from 50. [New York Times]

- A Staten Island woman who lost her husband and daughter to Hurricane Sandy became the first homeowner bought out by the city under the hurricane recovery program. [New York Times]

- Scoreboard: Giants lose to Bears, 27-21. Rangers fall to Ducks, 6-0.

THE WEEKEND

Saturday

- A show of Danish paintings of the 19th and early 20th centuries opens at Scandinavia house on East 38th Street. (Recommended by The Times’s “Weekend Miser.”) [Free]

- The Pier 42 Fall Festival on the Lower East Side features kite-flying competitions, waterfront-related art fun for children and an oral history project led by the Rhizomatic Museum. Noon to 4 p.m. [Free]

Sunday

- Meet hawks, owls and other birds of prey at the Raptor Fest at the Audubon center in Prospect Park. Noon to 3 p.m. [Free]

- Watch two graffiti artists, Chris “Daze” Ellis and Lady Pink, do their thing live outside the Museum of the City of New York to celebrate the museum’s publication of “City as Canvas,” a book about New York graffiti. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. [Free to watch from the street]

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

Weekend Street Closings: Click for complete list.

Joseph Burgess contributed reporting.

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