New York Today: Hurricane Sandy, One Year Later Three thousand people joined hands and fell silent as a fire boat pivoted offshore, spouting like a whale. The occasion was the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall last Oct. 29. Lily Corcoran, 56, who had organized the event through a Facebook group, Rockaway Rising, looked back at her creation and wept. "I lost it," she said. I had to go down to the water so nobody would see me. A wave rippled through the crowd, then a cheer rose. The chain broke. Children placed glowing Chinese lanterns and daisies on the water, symbols of those lost to the storm. The hurricane left more than 100 people dead and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage. For the next few days, anniversary events will spring up all over. Today, Ellis Island will reopen to visitors for the first time since the storm. Beginning on Tuesday, 300,000 special "I Love New York" MetroCards will go into circulation, part of a statewide, "Come See the Comeback" campaign. Step out for lunch: pure sunshine today, with a high of 61. No clouds till nightfall. Subways: Delays on southbound F and G. Click for latest status. Rails: O.K. Click for L.I.R.R., Metro-North or New Jersey Transit status. Alternate-side parking is in effect through Thursday but suspended Friday. Joseph J. Lhota is on "Geraldo" on WABC-AM (770) at 10:20 a.m. Then he holds a news conference to criticize Bill de Blasio's record on the Atlantic Yards project and goes to a New York Young Republican Club gala. Mr. de Blasio protests layoffs of 500 Long Island College Hospital health care workers. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announces more Hurricane Sandy rebuilding money. President Obama's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force unveils ideas from 10 design teams. 8:30 a.m. at N.Y.U. [Free. Also on live stream] Climate scientists and a FEMA coordinator discuss disaster management in Midtown at noon. [Free. R.S.V.P. here] Three weeks into the season, the Rangers" belated home opener in a renovated Madison Square Garden, against Montreal. The photographer William Eggleston signs copies of a book of pictures of the sky he took in 1978, at Gagosian Gallery on the Upper East Side. 5 p.m. A sociologist who has walked 6,000 New York City miles gives an illustrated lecture at the New York Public Library. NYC Comedy Week, which is actually two weeks long, gets under way. The final mayoral debate, scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed to Wednesday at the candidates" request, to honor victims of Hurricane Sandy. Mr. de Blasio's lead in the polls has shrunk slightly but is still 45 points. The state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, wants to unseal a secret report on the state's handling of the 1971 Attica prison uprising. Buffalo News The city has dropped its attempt to require stores to hide cigarettes. New York is the first state to open its own emergency gasoline reserve. The New York Times editorial board endorsed Mr. de Blasio. The free daily amNewYork's opinion page has endorsed Mr. Lhota. Scoreboard: Giants stomp Eagles, 15-7. Bengals maul Jets, 49-9. Lou Reed, who died on Sunday at 71, got his first big writeup in The New York Times on Jan. 14, 1966. In a curious way. He and his band, the Velvet Underground, appeared with Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry's black-tie dinner at Delmonico's Hotel. The Times said the band (Mr. Reed was not mentioned by name) played "a combination of rock "n" roll and Egyptian belly-dance music." Reviews were not mixed. "A short-lived torture of cacophony," pronounced one psychiatrist. Another said, "It was ridiculous, outrageous, painful." Many fled before dessert. Post a comment, email us at nytoday@nytimes.com or reach us via Twitter using #NYToday.