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Good Monday morning to you.
Sometimes, even in the longest of winters, you catch a break from the weather.
If you cast your mind back for a moment to Friday, forecasters were watching a storm track across the country.
Snow, they predicted for today. Maybe as much six inches. In mid-March!
But today: nothing. You will not see a single flake.
The snowstorm was pushed south by a high-pressure mass that swept through the Canadian plains and Great Lakes over the weekend.
If you want to see snow today, go to New Jersey and turn left. Atlantic City is expecting a few inches, Cape May up to six.
Here in New York, 126 days and 57.4 inches after the first flakes fell on Nov. 12, we’re looking at just another leaden winter day.
Thick clouds, a high of 34, wind chills in the teens and low 20s.
Bundle up, paradegoers.
Here’s what else is (and isn’t) happening.
COMMUTE
Subways: No delays. Check latest status.
Rails: O.K. Check L.I.R.R., Metro-North or N.J. Transit status.
Roads: No major delays. Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s.
Parade alert: Fifth Avenue will be closed from 79th to 44th Street, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Alternate-side parking is in effect all week.
COMING UP TODAY
- The St. Patrick’s Day parade steps off at 11 a.m. at Fifth Avenue and 44th Street. You can watch it live from the comfort of your computer.
- Mayor de Blasio will not be marching, out of solidarity with gay-rights groups barred from carrying their banners.
- To make up for it, he will host a breakfast at Gracie Mansion, attend St. Patrick’s Day Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and pose for pictures with Ireland’s prime minister, Enda Kenny.
- Irish Book Day: volunteers and officials hand out free books by Irish writers â€" Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Edna O’Brien and dozens of others â€" at nine locations around the city. 7 a.m. until the books are gone.
- A “Sober St. Patrick’s Day†festival featuring music, storytelling and step dancing, at Cathedral High School on East 56th Street. 4 p.m. [$20]
- Teenage authors of speculative fiction read from their novels at the main New York Public Library. 6 p.m. [Free]
- James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Woody Allen and other funny New Yorkers are channeled at a “History of Comedy in New York City†reading at Elebash Recital Hall on Fifth Avenue and 35th Street. 6:30 p.m. [Free]
- Fifty years after the murder of Kitty Genovese, the crime writer Kevin Cook talks about his new book on it at Barnes & Noble on West 82nd Street. 7 p.m. [Free]
- For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.
IN THE NEWS
- A 5-year-old boy was fatally struck by a car in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The driver was charged with reckless driving. [New York Times]
- Guinness, the brewery, is also boycotting the parade. It had initially been a sponsor. [New York Times]
- Mr. de Blasio played an obnoxious mayor on “The Good Wife†last night: His voice over a taxicab-backseat television annoyed Nathan Lane’s character. [New York Times]
- Why roast ducks hanging in Chinatown restaurant windows are O.K. with the health department. [Open City, via Atlantic Cities]
- A man who lost a $45,000 Fernando Botero painting to his brother in a coin toss is suing him to get it back. [New York Post]
- By raising prices to meet demand, the long-running “Lion King†became Broadway’s highest-grossing show last year. [New York Times]
- Scoreboard: Sharks stop Rangers, 1-0.
AND FINALLY …
A homecoming is in the works for John Wolfe Ambrose’s head.
Ambrose was the Irish immigrant who helped develop New York’s waterways. The Ambrose Lightship and Ambrose Channel are named for him.
For nearly a century, a bronze bust of him stood in Battery Park, gazing out at the harbor. (See photo.)
In 1990, it was stolen, probably for the value of its bronze.
The bust, about two feet high, was never recovered, but a new one is being cast from photographs.
It will be installed sometime in the near future.
Joseph Burgess, Annie Correal and Sandra E. Garcia contributed reporting.
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