Yana Paskova for The New York Times Move the car. Good Monday morning. Cold weather is returning.
And so is a time-honored New York City ritual.
The snow is mostly gone.
The trash is mostly gone.
If you own a car, it is, probably, no longer entombed by frozen muck.
Now you get to move it.
After 22 days of grace, the city’s alternate-side parking rules are back in effect.
Drivers will search for a legal spot or do their little double-parking dance.
And the bristles of the street sweeper and the blades of the plow shall try to scour the pavement of a winter’s worth of grime.
(For those unfamiliar: the law requires street parking spots to be vacated for an hour or two one or two days a week for street cleaning. Our colleague Winnie Hu explains it all this morning.)
Twenty-two days is a lot, but nowhere near the record of 62 days in the winter of 1978.
Still, the city seems to have gotten a little impatient.
Agents issued a flurry of tickets in the Bronx last week to cars parked at an angle to the curb â€" even in some cases where the curb was blocked off by hillocks of ice crust.
Perhaps it had something to do with revenue.
The city, after all, issues an estimated $270,000 a day worth of tickets for alternate-side violations.
This year, alternate-side rules have been suspended on 28 of the 42 days they would normally be in effect.
That’s $7.6 million to make up.
Here’s what else you need to know.
WEATHER
It will only get colder â€" about 40 degrees now, down to 34 this afternoon and 21 tonight. A sunny day, though.
A flurry may fall tomorrow night, but not much more.
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
- Mayor de Blasio is on the “Today†at 8 a.m. to cut a ribbon on Rockefeller Plaza renovations â€" and to make peace with Al Roker, who blasted the mayor’s decision to open schools when it snowed a foot.
- The mayor also meets with the Staten Island borough president, James Oddo, about Hurricane Sandy recovery.
- The City Council’s transportation committee holds a hearing on Mr. de Blasio’s set of traffic safety proposals at 10 a.m.
- One of two New York State residents to win a medal at Sochi, the luger Erin Hamlin, visits the Empire State Building (but does not sled down). 3:15 p.m.
- Cool but very expensive: Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri field questions after a 20th-anniversary screening of “A Bronx Tale†at Village East Cinemas, to benefit the TriBeCa Film Institute. 7 p.m. [$250]
- For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.
Joseph Burgess contributed reporting.
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