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Reports that New York City's Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) has fixed the signage that has been the source of confusion for commuters going to Wayne Avenue. Problems for the students of Janet Norquist-Gonzalez, who holds yoga classes; Location of her building, the Lenru Coop; Complaint letters sent to the D.O.T.

Reports on restrictions to students of Public School 175 on City Island in the Bronx, New York City in the wake of revelations that a sex offender has relocated in the area. Creation of rumors; Letter signed by the principal informing parents to take precautionary measures; Description of the offender and his crimes.

Features a mural of four men working on a rig that is hanging in a school library in Bronx, New York City. Painter of the Soundview mural; Restoration of the mural by the Public Art for Public Schools program; Loss of many of the school's treasures.

Examines the problems of an athletic complex in Bronx, New York City. Size of the field; Lockers that were too small to fit football equipment; Lack of football goal posts.

Reports efforts to supply fresh fruits and vegetables to residents of Washington Heights and Inwood in Manhattan, New York City. Neighborhood's love for vegetables; Public meeting about potential greenmarket sites.

Features home of Bill Buice, a lawyer and president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, in Shelter Island Heights in New York. Architecture; Interior design; Description of Buice's extensive library.

Focuses on the filmmaking course financed by the New York Foundation for the Arts, held in New York City. Community spirit; Benefits to participants and volunteers.

Reports on the opening of the Bronx, New York city-based shopping center called the River Plaza. Retail stores within the center; Competition with local stores in the area; Convenience for the people living in the area.

Reports on the shortage of toilets at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York. Parks commissioner Adrian Benepe's denial of such shortage; Coach Jose Ortiz's concerns that urinating in the bushes harms the image of Hispanic Americans; Marketing of the Queens Museum of Art.

Reports that Johnny Colon, the mainstay of New York City's Latin music scene in the 1960s and 1970s, plans to revive his music school. Funding from SCAN New York, a nonprofit organization; Death of his wife Stephanie Munoz; Kinds of music to be taught.

Features the four-bedroom house of Stephen and Regina Humanitzki in Sag Harbor, New York. Description of the house.

Discusses the subway in New York City and the dismantling of the elevated railways, known as the el, in Manhattan. Assertion that the el is not gone yet, despite having its last run; Description of the el and its influence on city life; Perspective of residents about the el.

Focuses on the cost control strategy in exploring New York City. Selection of cheap apartments online; Budget for the theater and dinner; Accommodation in a classic tenement building.

Focuses on the housing development plan on the empty lot in the Hunts point section in Bronx, New York City. Approval for the project by the state's Housing Finance Authority; Recruitment of a construction company by the city to build 193 mixed-income apartments on one site; Transformation of the physical and demographic landscape.

The article offers travel tips for Queens, New York City and includes recommendations for late-night partying, dining, museums, shopping, and accommodations.

THE best way to save money in Midtown is to spend more time downtown -- advice many a New Yorker has foisted upon visiting friends. But I spend enough time in other people's cities to know that certain zones get tagged as tourist traps for a reason: they have attractions worth seeing. Such is the case in the heart of Manhattan. Midtown is so full of marketing come-ons and overpriced souvenirs that many New Yorkers try to avoid it entirely. (Yes, I like comedy, but no, I don't need to get asked as much by eight guys promoting clubs.) Being frugal in Midtown calls for more than a laundry list of $10 meals, strategies for cheap theater tickets, tricks to find affordable hotels and advice on discount passes (though those will help, too). It calls for a strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HOW much spending money should you set aside for a weekend in New York City that includes taking in some theater, museums and experimental film, dining out at restaurants for every meal and having a few beers, too? Does $100 sound reasonable? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIVING INTO A CENOTE ON HER 30TH BIRTHDAY, VALLADOLID, YUCATAN, MEXICO, FEB. 22, 2009 Jenny Ivansson, a lighting designer from Vaxjo, Sweden, now living in New York. ''The plan was to get away from New York in February. We had gone to Chichen Itza, the Mayan ruins, and ended up somewhere in between there and Tulum. From what I understand, cenotes are formed when underground water breaks down the stone to create these sinkholes. I had never heard of them before, but they turned out to be everywhere. People even had them in their backyards. This one was in the middle of a sleepy little Mexican town. I just decided to jump in. You know when you've been in the sun all day, your body is sort of swollen and you're exhausted? It felt liberating, the end of a nice birthday -- which I normally spend in Sweden or New York, where it's freaking cold. When we were leaving, I recognized some Norwegians arriving -- the language is very easy for us to understand. But you just pretend you don't know what they're saying. I said ''Enjoy'' in English. They arrived the same way as I did -- thinking it was incredibly exotic and special -- and I didn't want to ruin their moment.'' As told to Seth Kugel [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THIS is the 130th and final Weekend in New York column. A few days ago, I moved to Brazil, where I'll be writing about South America. But first, a clarification to the five boroughs: It's not you, it's me. People have asked if I'm ending the column because I'm bored with writing about you, but that's silly. I've spent weekends in New York for the last 15 years, and still haven't seen the half of it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TO the long list of things I do horribly -- break dancing, dusting and gardening, among them -- I can now add one more: shaving with a straight razor. So it became clear as the blood dripped -- no, let's say flowed -- down my cheek one recent Sunday morning inside F.S.C. Barber in the West Village in Manhattan. It was less than a minute after my five fellow students and I -- all in our 20s and 30s -- took blades to our faces at Cut Throat 101, the appropriately named, $70 shaving class given on the first Sunday of every month at 10:30 a.m. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

YOU can find almost anything you would ever want within the city limits of New York, from horseback riding paths to beaches just a subway ride away to hidden-away clubs featuring live African music to stores selling Thai cream soda. What you won't find, however, are any ski slopes. Though you can cross-country ski in a few spots, the city just doesn't have alpine capability, despite place names that might make you think otherwise: Washington, Hamilton, Crown, Jackson and Cambria are all Heights; Boerum and Cobble have Hills; and Park has a Slope -- and there is not a single chairlift among them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A lot of people live in New York, which is part of what makes the city so great. But it comes with a corollary that's a bit of a downer: a lot of people die there, too. Luckily, back in the mid-19th century, someone had the foresight to set aside some future prime real estate for some pretty cool cemeteries, among them Green-Wood in Brooklyn, Woodlawn in the Bronx and Calvary in Queens. They're all worth a visit, but for different reasons: Green-Wood has the most beautiful grounds, Woodlawn has the most intriguing monuments, and Calvary has the best views. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NEW York is a great walking city. Except, of course, when it's not. When it's raining and miserable -- which may be the case quite a bit in coming months, ruining your otherwise spectacular plans -- your instinct might be to go to the mall. But we don't do malls here. Instead, here's an alternative: Spend the day in Grand Central Terminal, which is a mall in much the same way the Empire State Building is an office complex. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT'S just a few days until Halloween, which means we're right in the midst of the annual dieters' amnesty, whereby American tradition grants absolution to adults who cannot help dipping into the office candy bowl. Instead of wasting the splurge on Snickers and Reese's peanut butter cups, you could save the calories for a visit to New York, trying international desserts from bakeries and take-out restaurants. Some, like baklava, may be familiar but it can be hard to find a good version; others, like thiakry, will be known only to West Africans and millet connoisseurs. But they're $4 and under, and they're all available in Manhattan, without ordering a fancy meal beforehand and without fancy flourishes like fine china adorned with swirls and dots of raspberry or a dainty sprig of mint. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THOUGH New Yorkers were recently brought up short by the financial crisis, with no one quite knowing just how bad it would be, one thing this city has going for it is its resiliency. Yes, there are worries about 401(k)s and mortgage payments -- and perhaps a second thought about spending time in clubs with $300 bottle service -- but there are still plenty of reasons not to stay at home watching CNBC, from new restaurants featuring ever-more inventive menus to hipster hangouts colonizing yet another part of Brooklyn. Historians might look back at 2008 as the year that Wall Street tanked; trend-seeking visitors may remember it as the year they had their first sip of a black maamba. Friday [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE decision that will shape your experience in New York more than any other -- more than what airline you take or which shoes you pack or even which iconic New York film you watch to get in the mood -- is what guidebook to bring with you. There are dozens of guides to New York City out there that you could lug around for a weekend, and their styles vary as widely as Manhattan pizza slices. Here is the lowdown on six big names that have come out with recent New York editions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MANY rookie tourists stick to Midtown Manhattan, where they can easily get the impression that in New York City everyone is always rushing, that you can barely see the sky and that nature is virtually absent. In fact, its most storied natural phenomenon, the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, is ''evergreen'' for just over one month a year. But even New Yorkers who work or live in Midtown do find time and green space to escape from their tall buildings and take a break. And not just by hitting Bryant Park or taking advantage of the cool new plant-enhanced seating plazas on Broadway near Times Square. Also nestled into much of Midtown -- especially the East Side -- are hidden parks and peaceful spaces generally not visible from the main avenues, and thus easily missed by nonregulars. There, those in the know relax on benches, take in the waterfalls and in one spot, even buy a slice of apple pie. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHAT with three Chinatowns to choose from, cabs driven by legions of Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, and nightly colonization of St. Marks Place by the Japanese, finding Asia in New York is hardly a challenge. But hiding in the shadows are cultural and culinary gems from Asian countries that, for reasons of history or demographics, did not send huge numbers of immigrants or expats to the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NEXT time you're in New York, be sure to say hi to Mary, Sunita, Roslyn, Jeffrey and Roni-Sue. They're proprietors of a rare kind of Manhattan business: shops and restaurants named for living, breathing people who actually own and operate the places themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HERE'S a conversation you might hear (or have) on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn: ''Hey, let's get some schnitzel.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IF you're a regular visitor to New York, enjoying the shops and restaurants and art and theater and pure energy of the streets, you may have asked yourself: how did it get this way? (You also may have been so busy shopping and eating and looking that you haven't, but play along.) The long answer lies in lots of long, heavy books that you could spend a year reading; a shorter answer is yours for $44 in four museum visits that you can fit snugly into one weekend -- and still slip in a historical walking tour. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT'S hard to remember exactly when, but at some point in history a Statue of Liberty foam hat, an Empire State Building snow globe and a MoMA poster of Monet's ''Water Lilies'' made for perfectly adequate gifts to bring back from the Big Apple. These days, though, gift recipients have grown sophisticated, and no traveler wants to be labeled ''the guy who went to New York and all his friends got were these lousy six-for-$10 'I Love N.Y.' T-shirts.'' Instead, gifts must be creative, useful or at least purposefully ironic. They should clearly be from New York, but not say ''New York,'' nor involve big or even medium-sized apples. Your neighbor, the transplanted New Yorker who didn't quite make the gift list, should be envious, not mocking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THREE distinct and distinctly walkable neighborhoods line the Brooklyn waterfront under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. But though they share the East River and the York Street stop on the F train, they couldn't be more different -- Fulton Ferry is a tourist standard, Dumbo is an industrial area gentrified into low-key hipness, and Vinegar Hill is a quirkily decrepit charmer. At Fulton Ferry, a sliver of a neighborhood, double-decker sightseeing buses swing through, the New York Water Taxi stops, and the celebrated River Cafe (with two six-year-old stars from The Times's William Grimes) continues to attract crowds. The area is worth a visit, if for no other reason than to admire one of the best views of Manhattan from practically under the Brooklyn Bridge, and for a unique angle on the coolest of the New York City Waterfalls, four installations created by the artist Olafur Eliasson (up through Oct. 13). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THERE are certain things New York's drinking sophisticates expect everyone -- including tourists -- to know. Can't tell a malbec from a shiraz? You're a bozo. Indifferent when facing a choice of Bud Light or Bass? What a dolt. Can't distinguish Johnnie Walker from a single-malt scotch? Such a choob (that's Scottish slang for a bozo or a dolt). But if you can't tell a junmai from a honjozo sake, who can blame you? There's no culture of sake snobbery in New York, so you won't be penalized for being an amateur. In fact, since it's summer, and sake -- the traditionally Japanese drink brewed by fermenting rice -- is often chilled, you'll be amply rewarded. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FOR visitors from tropical countries where fresh fruit juice is a given, New York must be confusing. Here, in what is arguably the finance, theater, media and artificial waterfall capital of the world, why aren't there more people willing to put a watermelon through a blender to make a cool drink on a blazing summer day? Luckily, the oppressive reign of the corn-syrup drinks faces scattered resistance around Manhattan. Sometimes, the best can be hidden away, like at the Michelle Deli & Grocery in East Harlem, the kind of place that looks like a run-of-the-mill Mexican market but (like many others of its type) hides a lunch counter in the back. A menu that ranges from beef tacos to rabbit in creole sauce doesn't mention the $2 ''aguas'' (as Mexicans call them). Ask the cook, who will grab watermelon (or cantaloupe, mmm!) from the front and blend it up for you. It's almost like having your mother make it for you, if your mother were a young woman from Guerrero. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ON Friday evening the Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra, the Latin Recording Academy's 2007 man of the year, will take the stage for a Madison Square Garden concert fronting his 16-piece band, 3 back-up singers and 4 dancers. If past New York shows are any indication, the crowd will be electrified by his anthemic merengues on the developing world's problems and charmed by his metaphor-laced love ballads, singing along with virtually every word. But in a sense they'll be doing it all in secret. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MANHATTAN ISLAND sure looks different if you're doing six knots through New York Harbor on a Colgate 26 racing sloop on a breezy summer Sunday. You can smell not a single pile of rotting trash outside McDonald's and feel not a single blast of furnacelike heat from a subway platform. This serene, stark postcard image may be illusory, but it's also an illuminating reminder of what we so often hear but rarely absorb: New York is a city of islands and rivers. But with Olafur Eliasson's four ''New York City Waterfalls'' dotting the waterfront, all eyes -- and more bodies than usual -- are on the city's rivers. Summer is precisely the right time to get on a boat in the city. And while locals might head out onto the Gowanus Canal or Jamaica Bay or the Bronx River, visitors can probably best spend their money on a trip on the East River or New York Harbor. Alas, sometimes that can cost a lot of money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IS it worth taking a laptop along when you visit New York City? Not to check your e-mail at the hotel or to sneak in a few hours on a PowerPoint presentation for next week. That is definitely not worth it; you're on vacation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

APPRECIATING the foods immigrants have brought to New York City is pretty easy for the visitor: pop a dumpling into your mouth or chomp on a taco and you get it: this thing tastes good. But checking out the imported and home-grown sports played around the city doesn't always provide instant satisfaction: someone needs to be there to explain what you're seeing. Luckily, someone almost always is. That's what makes the trek out of Manhattan to see New York's more unusual sports worthwhile: mixing with and learning from the fans or the players waiting for the next match, who are just as passionate about their sports as you are about baseball or basketball or hockey. And if you've ever been generous enough to explain sacrifice flies and ground-rule doubles to a befuddled foreigner, it's time to collect on your debt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IF you always put pineapple on your hamburgers, can identify lulo juice by color, consider vinegar to be a vital ingredient in salsa and can distinguish cumbia music from vallenato, you're excused from a Colombian weekend in New York. Otherwise, it is worth getting to know the ingredients and rhythms of one of the city's biggest -- and most under the radar -- immigrant cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE behind-the-scenes tour is a staple of the pamphlet-driven tourist routine, promising a glimpse beyond the glitzy sites where shows and sporting events are put on in this city. But are the tours worthwhile for visitors? And what about New Yorkers, who might consider themselves too cool to be seen among school groups from Kentucky and, in a sense, already get a daily behind-the-scenes-tour of big-city life just by living here? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THERE'S something about stumbling upon a manicured garden hidden somewhere in Manhattan. With the city raging just beyond the hedges, you claim a piece of bench or spot of grass and relax, let the perfume of flowers and a bumblebee or two drift over you with the breeze. It's a stillness visitors rarely expect to find in the city (and one that New Yorkers with small apartments and roommates otherwise find only by locking themselves in the bathroom). It's more about peace than quiet: the gardens are still, after all, in Manhattan, and taxi horns, squealing brakes and sirens find their way in. In a way, though, that aural versus visual dissonance makes the pleasure even greater. You're so close, and yet so far (but in a good way). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JEWISH arts in New York City. What, exactly, does that mean? A 19th-century Austrian menorah? D.J.'s from Tel Aviv playing Prospect Park in Brooklyn? Jackie Mason cracking up an Off Broadway crowd with jokes that would not be funny -- and would be offensive -- from the mouth of anyone else? Yes, yes, and for better or for worse, yes. The large, ancient and ever-changing Jewish population of New York defies definition, from secular to Orthodox, from the Upper West Side to Borough Park, from Ashkenazi to Sephardic to adopted Asian, from the mayor's office to newly arrived immigrants from the former Soviet Union. The art scene is hardly less diverse. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN it comes to describing places to hear music, here's an adjective that is tossed around a lot: intimate. In New York, that's sometimes a euphemism for ''tiny'' or ''sardine-like'' or, from a musician's point of view, ''unprofitable.'' But sometimes it lives up to what you hope for: cozy, friendly, comfortable, with a sense of interaction with the performers. In other words, a place where your row (say, XX) will not be named after sex-determining chromosomes, or one where a flying drop of guitarist sweat could theoretically land in your drink. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]