New York Today: Another Slippery Commute

Joshua Bright for The New York Times Watch your step.

Updated 10:14 a.m.

Good Monday morning.

The mercury is stuck in the low 20s, and this dingy city is wearing a fresh white coat.

It’s just a measly inch or two of snow, and we’re used to it by now â€" this is the 13th measurable snowfall of the season.

Things could be a lot worse. Still, it might be a bit dicey getting around this morning. “Many secondary roads remain snow covered and slick,” the National Weather Service warned at 5:30 a.m.

The city issued a travel advisory for today.

Alternate-side parking is suspended for the seventh straight weekday.

A few New Jersey school districts are opening late.

Snowfall totals: 1.2 inches in Central Park, 2.5 in eastern Queens and Bay Shore in Suffolk County.

Temperatures might touch 30 today, under mostly sunny skies.

It will get down to the teens tonight and stay cold through Wednesday.

Then comes another storm. If it dumps snow, it could bring 10 inches. If it’s rain, it could be the most we’ve had since December. If it’s something in between, it will be a huge drag.

Here’s what else is happening.

STATE OF THE CITY

This afternoon, Mayor de Blasio will speak to New Yorkers about something other than snow removal.

He will give his first State of the City address, at noon. You can watch it live.

We asked Kate Taylor of The Times’s City Hall bureau what to expect.

Look for the mayor to keep pressing the case for his tax increase on the rich to pay for pre-K, she said, despite Governor Cuomo’s outflanking offer to finance it.

And with labor negotiations looming, Mr. de Blasio will try to recalibrate the expectations of the unions he has courted so ardently.

“He may warn that there is not enough money to give the unions everything that they’re asking for in terms of retroactive raises,” she said. “But he will have a pro-union tone.”

Also, Ms. Taylor said, the mayor “could tell us how he plans to achieve his goal of building and preserving 200,000 affordable housing units.”

COMMUTE
Subways: Check latest status.

Rails: Check L.I.R.R., Metro-North or N.J. Transit status.

Roads: Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s.

COMING UP TODAY

- Release the hounds: The 138th Westminster Kennel Club dog show opens at the Hudson River piers on West 55th Street at 8 a.m. [$25]

- PETA will protest the implicit racism of purebred dog standards at 5 p.m. outside Madison Square Garden, where the dog show’s evening events are held.

- Fashion Week continues. Our colleagues at the On the Runway blog have the scoop.

- Last day for the Kandinsky show at Neue Galerie on the Upper East Side. [$20]

- Go for a night run in Prospect Park with Shape Up NYC. 7 p.m. [Free]

- Before the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, Boston and New York vied to build the nation’s first subway system. Doug Most, author of “The Race Underground,” talks at Barnes & Noble on West 82nd Street. 7 p.m. [Free]

- The New York Theater Ballet dances the “Nuevo Tango” at the Dance Gallery on East 31st Street. 7:30 p.m. [$10 suggested]

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

IN THE NEWS

- A statewide cockfighting crackdown yielded a slew of arrests and the seizing of thousands of birds in Queens, Brooklyn and Ulster County, N.Y. [New York Times]

- Only 8 percent of New York City cabbies are born in the United States. [New York Times]

- Another vanishing breed: stand-alone diners. There are five left in Manhattan, according to Scouting New York.

- Con Ed rates have increased because of winter demand for electricity â€" up as much as 83 percent from this time last year. [New York Post]

- A 32-year-old New Yorker vanished on a motorcycle trip in Mexico. [Daily News]

- Scoreboard: Thunder roll past Knicks, 112-100. Nets net Pelicans, 93-81.

AND FINALLY …

Make as much fun as you want of New Yorkers’ willingness to stand on line for hours for a Cronut.

At least they’re not standing in line for day-old New York City bagels.

San Franciscans are.

On Saturday, the queue in the rain stretched on for two hours outside a restaurant called Dear Mom, the blog Uptown Almanac reported.

The prize: A bagel flown in from Russ & Daughters, artfully festooned with cream cheese, for $6. Bagel sandwiches were $12.

By 4 p.m., the offerings were sold out.

Joseph Burgess contributed reporting.

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