Good morning on this mild Monday.
Much has been made of the size of the new Fulton Center, the downtown subway station that opens its 27 entrances to commuters this morning.
And of the Oculus, a dome that draws daylight into the station through a so-called Sky Reflector Net.
And of the redesigned station’s rings of retail space, which one architect called “doughnuts of accommodation.”
Vivian Yee, The Times’s reporter who attended the center’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sunday, pointed out another feature:
“There are screens everywhere, and everything is moving,” she said.
From ads to maps and service announcements, “they’re very into the digital Fulton Center,” Ms. Yee said.
“When we’re used to being in a regular station where the ads are all paper, it’s startling to go into a station and see all these moving ads.”
One of the opening-day ads is for Burberry. The wristwatch in the ad, she said, is supposed to match the actual time whenever it comes on screen.
She declared the experience “a little overwhelming” to the senses — certainly more so than Grand Central Terminal, though less so than Times Square.
“There are no blinking lights,” she said.
The center connects the 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, Z and R lines, and will eventually extend to the World Trade Center and PATH trains.
Here’s what else is happening.
WEATHER
Mellow, not manic, with a light breeze and a high of 60.
By the end of the week, we may see the mercury plummet, along with a snowflake or two.
COMING UP TODAY
• Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton announce changes to the city’s marijuana policy at Police Headquarters. 3 p.m.
• On the eve of Veterans Day, 1,000 high school musicians known as the Band of Pride play in Times Square. 9 a.m. …
• …The City Council holds a hearing on veterans’ homelessness and hears a resolution calling for a study of homelessness among female veterans …
• … And retired Col. Mary Westmoreland of the U.S. Army speaks about women in the military at a day of events at the main Brooklyn Public Library. 11 a.m.
• Michael Bloomberg is inducted into the Crain’s Hall of Fame at Cipriani’s. Noon. [$325 at the door]
• The Times’s Food editor Sam Sifton answers Thanksgiving cooking questions over Facebook. 1 p.m.
• Tinariwen, whose lead singer made his first guitar from bicycle wire, plays at a showcase of “forward-thinking music” at Brooklyn Masonic Temple at 8 p.m. [$45]
• Colson Whitehead, author of “The Intuitionist,” reads at Franklin Park in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, at 8 p.m. [Free]
• 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 but suspended Tuesday for Veterans Day.
• Air travel: La Guardia, J.F.K., Newark.
IN THE NEWS
• The Police Department is poised to stop arresting people for low-level marijuana possession, issuing them tickets instead. [New York Times]
• One person was killed and two were critically injured when a man drove into a crowd after he was stabbed outside a banquet hall in Queens. [Daily News]
• A man was badly burned after he jumped on a Metro-North train in Connecticut and caught fire from overhead wires. [NBC]
• There is a panhandling pit bull in the Bronx. [New York Post]
• A year-old city program to reunite former prisoners with their families in public housing has only helped seven people. [New York Times]
• Ernie Vandeweghe, a leading Knicks player of the early 1950s and patriarch of a three-generation family of athletes, died at 86. [New York Times]
• A sculpture of Adam, nearly shattered in a 2002 fall, is back in one piece at the Met. [New York Times]
• Manuscripts from the Sacred Convent of St. Francis in Assisi are coming to New York. They haven’t traveled much in the last 700 years. [New York Times]
• Scoreboard: Seahawks swarm Giants, 38-17. Jets fly over Steelers, 20-13.
• For a global look at the news, see Your Monday Briefing.
AND FINALLY …
On Saturday, a reporter for The Times traveled to the Bronx, where around 80 families had gathered in an auditorium to have their cheeks swabbed.
It was the first Missing Person’s Day in the city.
Family members were submitting their genetic data for possible matches with the roughly 1,200 unidentified bodies that the city has received since 1990.
The bodies are buried in a city cemetery on Hart Island, known as a potter’s field, off the Bronx.
According to a member of the medical examiner’s office, there is a good chance there could be matches made this week.
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