New York Today: Spending Those Daylight Savings

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Updated 9:32 a.m.

Good Monday morning to you.

Daylight, you may have noticed, arrived late.

But if you can survive the morning â€" studies show that traffic accidents jump on the first, groggy workday of daylight saving time â€" you shall be rewarded this evening.

Those who work indoors now emerge at day’s end into an unfamiliar world of light.

We asked a bunch of people, including our readers, how they might spend their newfound daylight savings.

Their answers form a guide to the simple pleasures of the city on the cusp of spring in the hour before dusk.

Stroll down Broadway, Rida Bint Fozi told us on Twitter: “I leave work at 6, so I plan to walk down from 27th and Seventh to Broadway and Houston and catch the train home from there.”

“Bike across one of the East River bridges,” said Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, “and chase the rays of late afternoon sun.”

Look for crocuses along the High Line, along with the dozen or so other plants now in bloom there â€" viburnum, glory-of-the-snow, giant pussy willow.

Or just track the season’s progress, said Richard Simon, deputy director of the city’s Urban Park Rangers.

“If you decided, ‘I’m going to take a walk home through the park in the evening,’” he said, “if you follow the same path, you’ll begin to notice changes happening.”

Here’s what else is going on.

WEATHER

A few stray flakes may fall. Then just clouds, with a high of 49.

A roller-coaster stretch follows: sunny and 56 tomorrow, raw and rainy Wednesday, then once more into the deep freeze.

(Quantifying daylight: The sun rose today at 7:15 a.m. and sets at 6:57 p.m.)

COMMUTE

Subways: Delays on the 4, 5 and E. Check latest status.

Rails: O.K. 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.

Alternate-side parking is in effect all week.

COMING UP TODAY

- Charter school parents are filing a civil rights suit against the city over their school’s eviction from public school buildings. [Capital New York]

- Mayor de Blasio is on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC at 7 a.m.

- Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris talks about the city budget and the mayor’s progressive agenda at a business breakfast forum hosted by Crain’s at the New York Athletic Club.

- A cleanup of the Jamaica Bay shoreline in the Rockaways, open to all, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

- A “youth think tank” featuring a 10-year-old college student and a cognitive scientist, at the 92nd Street Y. 7 p.m. [Free]

- “Mappy Hour,” in which lovers of the city’s outdoor spaces gather indoors to drink and talk, at the gear store Fjällräven Soho. 7 p.m. [Free]

- The Ethiopian-American novelist Dinaw Mengestu reads at Greenlight Books in Fort Greene. 7:30 p.m. [Free]

- An online discussion of Jay McInerny’s “Bright Lights, Big City” with Gary Shteyngart, on The Times’s Big City Book Club at 6:30 p.m.

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

IN THE NEWS

- A Metro-North worker was fatally struck by a train at 106th Street and Park Avenue in East Harlem. [NBC New York]

- Liam Neeson, celebrity spokesman for the city’s embattled carriage-horse industry, said that the mayor should have “manned up” and joined him on a stable tour. [New York Times]

- An 11-year-old Brooklyn boy has been missing since Wednesday. [Daily News]

- The weekend’s warm weather brought out dirt bikes and all-terrain vechicles â€" and a police crackdown. [New York Times]

- The father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook school shooter, said that he wished his son had never been born. [New Yorker]

- The Knicks hope that Phil Jackson will tell them today whether he will come back to New York for a front office job with the team. [Daily News]

- Stone animal sculptures made by Bellevue Hospital patients were beheaded in the hospital’s Sobriety Garden. [DNAinfo]

- A Brooklyn man whose family says he is 112, though he may be a mere 110, celebrated his birthday on Sunday. [New York Post]

- Scoreboard: Nets conquer Kings, 104-89. Rangers still Red Wings, 3-0.

AND FINALLY …

The Thunderbolt roller coaster was a constant in the Coney Island of our parents’ youth, until it closed in 1982 and was demolished in 2000.

But it is returning to Coney Island, at least in name.

Ground will be broken today on a new Thunderbolt.

It is a different animal â€" steel, not wood, and about 40 feet higher than the old one.

The new coaster also features a loop.

In that, it more resembles the Flip Flap Railway, which opened in Coney Island in 1895 and was one of the first looping coasters.

But the new Thunderbolt will lack one feature: a house built beneath it. The apartments under the old Thunderbolt, immortalized in “Annie Hall,” really did exist.

Joseph Burgess contributed reporting.

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