Sunny and breezy is how it’ll be throughout today, with temperatures between 39 and 56 degrees throughout the day. There is a 60 percent chance of rainshowers expected late in the day, towards the early evening. Wind is moving southwards at 10 mph.
The sun will set at 7:24 p.m. and the moon will rise at 3:01 a.m. in the waning crescent phase.
Five things to know this morning:
- Shooting and murder rates are down in NYC for the first quarter of 2013, compared to the same period in 2012, declares the NYPD. [Gothamist; City Limits]
- 1-train subway service to South Ferry resumed this morning at 5 a.m., for the first time since Hurricane Sandy’s floodwaters submerged the underground complex. [NYPost]
- Prevention Agenda is a new 5-year-plan in NY state and city to reduce rates of smoking and obesity. The goal is to reduce the number of obese adults by 5 percent and low-income smokers by 30 percent. [NYCDOH; Crain’s Health Plus]
- Children’s literature favorite Eloise is moving to Brooklyn. [NYMag]
- The Lightstone Group’s controversial plan to develop a 700-unit residential complex along the Gowanus Canal is not their only NYC-focused project. [NYTimes]
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