Good morning on this crisp Monday.
Ebola continues to dominate the news this morning.
A 5-year-old boy who recently returned from Guinea is being tested at Bellevue Hospital Center after developing symptoms consistent with the disease, city officials said.
And the nurse quarantined in New Jersey will be released from the hospital to complete her quarantine at home in Maine.
In the case of the boy, blood test results should be known by early afternoon, said Mary T. Bassett, the city’s health commissioner.
He was taken to Bellevue on Sunday and developed a fever while there, around 7 a.m. today, the city said.
Ram Raju, head of the city’s public hospitals, said that the authorities are still putting together a contact history for the boy.
The New York Post reported that five members of his family are quarantined in their apartment in the Bronx.
The nurse in New Jersey, Kaci Hickox, who was quarantined in a tent behind a Newark hospital on Friday after returning from Sierra Leone, will be released today pending federal approval, our colleagues Michael Barbaro and Marc Santora report this morning.
Ms. Hickox, who has tested negative for Ebola, became the voice of opposition to mandatory quarantine after she criticized her treatment as “inhumane.”
In other Ebola developments:
• On Sunday, the governors of New York and New Jersey, under pressure from President Obama and medical experts, eased restrictions on travelers returning from West Africa.
Both governors announced that people, including medical workers, who have had contact with Ebola patients but are asymptomatic could be quarantined at home, not at hospitals.
• Craig Spencer, the doctor being treated for Ebola at Bellevue, remains in serious but stable condition.
His condition worsened over the weekend but had improved by Sunday.
Here’s what else you need to know.
WEATHER
The niceness holds for two more days: sunny today, with a high of 63. Mostly sunny Tuesday, and warmer, with the mercury poking through 70.
COMING UP TODAY
• A rally outside Bellevue calling for completely rescinding the quarantine rules, led by public health experts and AIDS activists. Noon.
• A timely conference at Columbia University, “The Ebola Crisis: What it Means for West Africa and the World,” 1 to 5 p.m. [Livestream]
• Mayor de Blasio signs a bill reducing speed limits on local streets to 25 miles an hour starting next month. 10:30 a.m.
• Those crowds in Times Square are there for Taylor Swift, who is on “Good Morning America” today as her new album drops.
• Free ice cream in Downtown Brooklyn as Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s talks about “social responsibility and radical business philosophy” at St. Francis College. 12:30 p.m.
• A concert tribute to Carolina Slim, the subway bluesman profiled in The Times, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, with his former sideman Jeremiah Lockwood. 9:30 p.m. [$20 and up]
• A screening of “Grind,” a film about the politics of gay hookup culture, with talks from its director and star, at Baruch College. 7 p.m. [Free]
• Rangers host Wild, 7 p.m. (MSG).
• For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.
COMMUTE
• L.I.R.R., Metro-North, N.J. Transit, Amtrak
• Roads: Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s.
• Alternate-side parking: in effect all week.
• Air travel: La Guardia, J.F.K., Newark.
IN THE NEWS
• A police officer fatally shot a man wielding a utility knife on a Queens sidewalk, the police said. [New York Times]
• A Bronx man who was videotaping the police says they roughed him up, handcuffed him, strip-searched him and gave him a ticket for jaywalking. [Daily News]
• St. John’s University and two other New York colleges will stop asking applicants, “Have you ever been arrested or convicted of a felony?” [New York Times]
A look at Amazon’s attempt to compete with FreshDirect in the grocery-delivery business in New York. [Crain's]
• “We’re winning,” said Rob Astorino, the Republican challenger who trails Governor Cuomo by 20 points in the polls. [Associated Press]
• Scoreboard: Bills crush Jets, 43-23.
• For a global look at what’s happening, see Your Monday Briefing.
AND FINALLY …
On this date in 1904, under the ground near City Hall, Mayor George B. McClellan grabbed a silver controller and set the city’s subway system in motion.
The train ran a nine-mile, 26-minute route to Grand Central and Times Square and up the West Side to 145th Street.
All along the way, The Times wrote, “crowds of excited New Yorkers were collected around the little entrances talking about the unheard trains that they knew were dashing below, and waiting eagerly for the first passengers to emerge from the underground passageways at their feet.”
By the end of the day, more than 125,000 passengers had boarded, “amid the tooting of whistles and the firing of salutes, for a first ride in a subway which for years had been scoffed at as an impossibility.”
Kenneth Rosen contributed reporting.
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