Bryan Thomas for The New York Times Constantine Tribushniy trudged through the snow and icy conditions like a modern-day Cupid on Friday delivering several flower orders on the Upper West Side.|
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Sweet, Slushy Valentine
Bryan Thomas for The New York Times Constantine Tribushniy trudged through the snow and icy conditions like a modern-day Cupid on Friday delivering several flower orders on the Upper West Side.
New York Today: Digging Out
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters Roads were sometimes treacherous in New York on Friday. Updated, 2:34 p.m.
Happy Valentine’s Day. Happy Presidents’ Day weekend.
The snow, finally, has ended.
For now.
Here’s what’s going on:
- City public schools are, once again, open. Many schools around the region are closed or opening late. See list.
- Roads are a mixed and sometimes treacherous bag. There has been flooding in some places, ice elsewhere.
- Today will be warmer and sunny but blustery: a high of 40, with winds of 20 miles an hour, gusting to 40.
- Enough snow will melt to make black ice a threat for the evening commute.
- Railroads are on reduced schedules. Subways are running close to normal. Buses are subject to delays and detours. An Amtrak train was stuck in the snow south of Albany for five hours. For details see “Commute†section below.
- Navigating on foot: no fun. Ice, slush, iced-over puddles (surprise!). Dig out the hip waders.
- More snow is in store tomorrow â€" just a dusting, relatively speaking: three inches at most, in late morning and the afternoon.
- Followed, alas, by bitter cold: 16 degrees Saturday night, a high of 28 on Sunday, and down to 11 Sunday night.
- It will probably snow on Monday. But not much. Then comes a warm spell!
- New York City got another two inches overnight after the rain switched back to snow. Total in Central Park: 12.5 inches. Many places in the region topped 14 inches. Harriman, N.Y., in Orange County, got 20.5 inches. See chart.
- There are scattered power failures. About 4,000 homes in the region are dark.
- Blood supplies are low and donations are needed. Call (800) 933-2566 or go to nybloodcenter.org to donate.
Here’s what else you need to know for Friday and the weekend.
(By the way, we’re off Monday for the federal holiday. We’ll see you first thing Tuesday.)
COMMUTE
Subways: Check latest status.
Rails: An Amtrak train from Penn Station was stuck in the snow 50 miles from Albany for five hours before it got rolling again.
Metro-North began the day on a Saturday schedule. But the railroad has added trains to deal with crowding. L.I.R.R is on a reduced schedule.
Check L.I.R.R., Metro-North or N.J. Transit status.
Buses: City buses are running at 80 percent of their normal schedule.
Roads: Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s.
Ferries: New York Waterway’s East River ferry to the Greenpoint terminal is suspended after a passenger ramp collapsed into the river.
Alternate-side parking is suspended through Monday. Meters are in effect.
Air Travel: Check with your airline. See map of delays and cancellations.
Weekend Travel Hassles: Check subway disruptions or list of street closings.
COMING UP TODAY
- Mayor de Blasio has canceled a storm update he had scheduled for 11:45 a.m. He has no public appearances today.
- Times Square belongs to lovers and zany promotions. Snuggle the fabric softener bear will co-officiate at a wedding at 10:30 a.m. Marriage proposals will be displayed on a big screen.
- And 175 couples will renew their vows at 6 p.m. as actors sing a song from the “Bridges of Madison County†musical.
- A couple will also be married at a White Castle on Fordham Road in the Bronx at 1 p.m.
- A Valentine’s Day classical concert at Bartow-Pell Mansion in the Bronx. 7 p.m. [$20]
- Documentary Fortnight kicks off at the Museum of Modern Art with “The Mother and the Sea,†a study of a coastal village in Portugal. 7 p.m. [$12]
- An opening party for “Beyond the Pale,†an art show about “twisted connections between affection and violence†and “the fervent agony of unrequited devotion.†At Con Artist on the Lower East Side. 8 p.m. [Free]
IN THE NEWS
- Second-guessing the mayor’s decision to keep schools open has become the city’s unofficial winter sport. [New York Times]
- Less than 45 percent of city public school students made their way in yesterday.
- A Staten Island high school student’s “Close NYC Schools During Snow Emergencies†Facebook page has garnered more than 46,000 likes. [DNAinfo]
- Mr. de Blasio is also still facing questions about his call to the police after a political ally was arrested. [Capital New York]
- A pregnant woman was fatally struck by a snow-clearing bulldozer in Brooklyn. Her baby is in critical condition. [New York Times]
- A woman texting while walking on a slippery subway platform fell in front of a train but survived. [New York Post]
- A shipment of Chobani yogurt intended for American Olympians but blocked by Russian authorities will be distributed to food banks in New York and New Jersey. [New York Times]
- Robbers who stole six cellphones in Fort Greene were arrested after they shot selfies on one of them and their victim saw the photos on iCloud, the police say. [Daily News]
- Struggling Brooklyn hospitals could get some of the $8 billion in Medicaid money that the federal government agreed to let New York State reallocate. [New York Times]
- Scoreboard: Bulls slam Nets, 92-76.
THE WEEKEND
Saturday
- The water’s fine: The Bronx Polar Bears go swimming at Orchard Beach at 11 a.m. [Free]
- Learn Tunisian crochet at Poe Park in the Bronx. 10 a.m. [Free, bring yarn and hook]
- Join the Queens Botanical Garden’s Backyard Bird Count. 11 a.m. [Free]
- Are you an athletic, charity-minded exhibitionist impervious to the cold? Get yourself to Cupid’s Undie Run and raise money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Festivities start at noon on West 48th Street.
- A Charlie Chaplin film festival at Brooklyn Lyceum. 3 p.m. [$5]
- The Times’s Weekend Miser recommends the weekend-long Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival for jazz bands, at the Manhattan School of Music in Morningside Heights. [Free]
- The 3D Printshow at Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea features workshops for aspiring 3D printers at all levels. [$35 and up for adults, $10 and up for children]
Sunday
- A late winter bird walk at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. 10 a.m. [Free]
- Last day for the show of sculptures by the American artist Tony Feher at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. [Free]
- For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.
- And if you seek fun outside the city, The Times’s Metropolitan section has suggestions for Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut.
AND FINALLY …
Sometimes, after a really rough week, what you need is to kick back and listen to a bunch of kids singing Phil Collins songs.
Fortunately, the Phil Collins Children’s Choir is there for you.
They will perform at Beach Church in the Rockaways at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. The church is at 2-27 Beach 97th Street.
The formal concert is followed by a youth open-mike night.
See you next week.
Joseph Burgess and Barbara Graustark contributed reporting.
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Red Roses and Two Lonely Hearts
Dear Diary:
I passed a man one recent evening, about my age, standing outside a cafe in Union Square. He was sweetly cradling a large bouquet of roses that he must have just purchased from the flower vendor outside the deli across the street - two dozen for $10.
The man seemed to be both searching the block, and glancing down at his cellphone. I went into Staples to buy printer paper, and when I came out, he was still there, cellphone hidden in a pocket, flowers held by the stems in a far less precious manner.
A real-life human drama, I thought. But something about that touched a deep yearning, and I had a sudden strong impulse to go right over, kiss him on the cheek, and say, “Are those flowers for me?â€
But I kept on walking… across the street to the flower vendor, where I bought myself a large bouquet of red roses for $10.
Two hearts, all dressed up and no place to go.
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Snapshots of Hanksy’s Short-Lived Work
Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times A signature image merges Banksy and Tom Hanks.
Hanksy’s start as a street artist began when he downloaded a Banksy painting of a rat holding a paint roller and added an image of the actor Tom Hanks. He mashed the two together, pasted the cutout on a wall on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, signed it Hanksy and took a photograph of it to share. The image was an overnight hit on social media, and Mr. Hanks liked it, too.
His puns are infectious online, and his unknown whereabouts only add to his appeal. Here are a few of his pieces that fans have spotted around New York City:
The “Pie Hard†piece in Bushwick, Brooklyn, appeared in an abandoned church. It was there for about six months.
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The “Catch Me If You Can†piece at Kenmare and Mulberry Streets in the NoLIta neighborhood of Manhattan. Hanksy said he has painted there several times.
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This image was painted on a panel for Hanksy’s first gallery show. “It’s one of my favorite images forever and ever,†he said.
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A piece by Hanksy as part of Surplus Candy, a collaboration of street artists and graffiti writers who came together to paint vacant apartments in the East Village. It eventually was defaced.
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Located on the outside of Stephen Colbert’s studio in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
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This piece by Hanksy was in his second solo show.
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Appeared at Rivington and Chrystie Streets on the Lower East Side.
Big Ticket | Two Floors of Flourishes for $23.4 Million
Ruby Washington/The New York Times 135 East 79th Street
A duplex penthouse with a pair of private terraces at 135 East 79th Street, a 19-story brick and limestone condominium developed by the Brodsky Organization, sold for $23,419,750 and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.
The 10-room PH15W has 5,086 square feet of interior space and 773 square feet of terraces; the monthly carrying costs are $15,737. The initial listing price for the residence, one of six duplex penthouses at the nearly sold-out 32-unit development, was $25 million; three penthouses remain.
The five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath unit is entered from a private elevator landing. The front door opens onto a double-height hall with a white oak floor and a sculptural staircase that leads to a master suite with a bleu de savoie stone slab bath and a dressing area. The entry level has a formal reception room, an octagonal dining room, and a 22-by-19-foot living room with a stone fireplace; the south terrace is reached from the reception and dining rooms. The 38-foot-long north terrace off the kitchen, which has hand-painted Christopher Peacock white oak cabinetry and stone slab counters, is also reachable from the family room.
William Sofield, noted for his sophisticated interiors for the Tom Ford and Gucci stores, designed the exterior and interiors of 135 East 79th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues. Flanking the building entrance are pear trees carved from Indiana limestone â€" just one of his flourishes.
“The developers really allowed Bill to run with his vision for the building, which is what sets it apart and lends it that special, enduring quality,†said James Lansill, the senior managing director of the Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, which handled the sale for the sponsor. Michael Rossi and Nick Agostinelli of Elegran Real Estate brought the buyer, Park & Lex Holdings, a limited-liability company based in Hudson, Ohio.
Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.
A version of this article appears in print on 02/16/2014, on page RE2 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Two Floors of Flourishes.
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