Don't forget to turn back your clocks before heading to bed tonight as daylight savings ends overnight at 2 a.m (unless of course you're reading this from Arizona or Hawaii). Your computer may have already tried to drop the hour a week ago--some systems haven't made the adjustment since Daylight Savings was extended by two weeks last year. The change tonight means it's also the night the fire department recommends that you replace the batteries......

Yesterday's West 65th Street apartment building fire was caused by lint buildup in the clothes dryer. Somehow the lint ignited, and according to the NY Times, "flames racing upstairs in the pipe recesses between the building’s front facade and an inner wall." That's a lesson right there: Clean out the lint! Though most of the building's residents had left by the time the FDNY arrived, two people were found by in extremely smoky conditions on......

Hooray! Who cares about losing an hour when our afternoons get brighter and the evenings start later? You can check the current NYC time here, so you can make sure all your watches, clocks, microwaves, and what have you are properly synced. Now, for the weather to clear up so we can sit outside at cafes and restaurants and in the park. The U.S. Naval Observatory on Daylight Savings Time; who knew that daylight time......

It might be best to know where higher ground is this weekend, especially if you live north and west of the city. A low pressure system currently centered over Alabama is going to bring massive amounts of Gulf moisture to our neighborhood starting tomorrow. The moisture is the orange spot over Georgia in the satellite image. The Weather Service is calling for 2-3 inches of rain across the area, with 4 inches or more at......