Good morning on this fine Tuesday.
When Raymond Kelly was police commissioner, parades got shorter in New York City.
In 2010, the Police Department told organizers that parades had to cover 25 percent less distance and could not go on for more than five hours.
Still, Mr. Kelly says he is a great fan of parades.
“I love them,” he told us.
That’s fortunate, because today Mr. Kelly will lead the Veterans Day parade as its grand marshal.
“I’m a veteran at being grand marshal,” he said, referring to the St. Patrick’s Day parade of 2010.
Mr. Kelly is a Vietnam veteran and a former Marine lieutenant.
He described his military service as “an experience that stays with you your whole life.”
Mr. Kelly will march with his wife, Veronica, who served in the Coast Guard reserves.
(He would not comment on whether he would also march with his sizable security detail, which he may lose at the end of the year.)
Asked what he would wear, he said, “Dress blues, tennis shoes and a light coat of oil.”
“I wanted to see if you were listening,” he said. “I will wear a two-button suit.”
The opening ceremony takes place at 10 a.m. at Madison Square Park.
The parade begins at 11:11 a.m. and proceeds up Fifth Avenue to 52nd Street.
Here’s what else you need to know.
OPEN OR CLOSED
• Schools: closed.
• Stock markets: open.
• Banks: mostly closed.
• Post Offices: closed except for the main post office on Eighth Avenue.
• Government offices: mostly closed.
• Transportation: mostly on normal weekday schedule.
WEATHER
Parading weather. Sunny and still with a high of 64.
COMING UP TODAY
• Mayor de Blasio appears with Craig Spencer, the doctor who had Ebola, who is leaving Bellevue Hospital Center. 10:15 a.m.
• For Veterans Day, the mayor speaks at a breakfast at the Prince George Ballroom and marches in the parade. …
• … Yellow roses are placed next to veterans’ names at the National September 11 Memorial. …
• The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument is open for tours on Riverside Drive. …
• … Veterans record memories for the Library of Congress at Flushing Town Hall in Queens. 1 p.m. [Free, R.S.V.P.]…
• … Officials lay a wreath at a ceremony at the Intrepid. 3:30 p.m. …
• … A big band plays at the St. George Theater on Staten Island. 7 p.m. [$20]
• Cornel West attends a rally calling for an end to stop and frisk at Grace Congregational Church of Harlem. 10:30 a.m.
• Tullio Lombardo’s Adam is back at the Met after the Renaissance sculpture was “gravely damaged” in a 2002 fall. [$25 suggested]
• Heavy ice princess traffic: First night of “Disney on Ice Presents Frozen” at Barclays Center. 7 p.m. [$37.95 and up]
• Rangers host Penguins, 7 p.m. (MSG). Islanders host Avalanche, 7 p.m. (MSG+2).
• 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: suspended for Veterans Day.
• Air travel: La Guardia, J.F.K., Newark.
IN THE NEWS
• The mayor’s new policy on low-level marijuana possession has raised concerns within the criminal justice system. [New York Times]
• The M.T.A. is considering a proposal to increase the subway fare to $2.75. [Daily News]
• Domestic violence has driven up the homeless-shelter population and sparked a city subsidy program to move victims out of shelters. [New York Times]
• The man who jumped on top of a Metro-North train and caught fire from overhead wires has died. The 21-year-old actor lived in Manhattan. [CBS]
• In a rare case, a Brooklyn landlord is going to prison after five tenants in illegally partitioned apartments died in a fire. [New York Times]
• Michael Bloomberg plans to spend his money to influence state and local elections rather than federal ones. [Politico]
• The unlikely star of the Broadway show “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is a white rat named Toby. [New York Times]
• A Carroll Gardens resident may rent out his backyard treehouse through Airbnb. “I think people would enjoy it, the experience of coming to Brooklyn and staying in a tree,” he said. [DNAinfo]
• A photo of men washing a building reveals how filthy the city still is. [Gizmodo]
• Scoreboard: Bruins maul Devils, 4-2.
• For a global look at the news, see Your Tuesday Briefing.
AND FINALLY …
Tonight, at BAM in Brooklyn, two actors will explore war in the era of social media.
The show is called “Basetrack Live.”
Basetrack was the name of a 2010 project by a Knight Foundation fellow to help Marines stationed in Afghanistan communicate more seamlessly with their families.
The multimedia performance blends their iPhone photos with music and interviews with the wives and families of service members.
“We decided to blow it out more fully,” the producer, Anne Hamburger, told us.
The piece shows how much has changed since military wives eagerly awaited letters scratched out in the trenches.
And how little:
“One woman told me every time she walked by her computer, she hit ‘refresh,’” Ms. Hamburger said.
Kenneth Rosen contributed reporting.
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