New York Today: Mr. Lhota's Neighborhood A long way from Cambridge, Mass., where his opponent, Bill de Blasio, grew up. On Friday, New York Today strolled through Mr. Lhota's childhood neighborhood, Pelham Bay. On East 194th Street stands a two-story brick house that he called home. A family of cats was lunching out front. "There used to be a lot of Italians, Irish, Germans," said Joe Sodano, 51, a lifelong resident of the neighborhood. Now there are a lot of Latinos. Mr. Lhota, the son of a city police officer, has Czech and Italian roots, as well as a Jewish grandmother. Pelham Bay has generally been peaceful, but every place has problems. A 1964 New York Times article - Mr. Lhota was 9 then - said heroin was spreading among local teenagers. The civic association sued in 1966 to block a public housing project. In Mr. Lhota's childhood house, at No. 2930, lives Jeff Drucker, 32. "This is the last good neighborhood in the Bronx," Mr. Drucker said. Mr. Drucker was asked what he thought of Mr. Lhota, who is far behind in the polls. He had never heard of him. Here's what else you need to know for this soggy Monday. Fog. Rain. Thunder. Wind. Even a tornado watch till 5 p.m. Something for everyone today, unless you want sunshine. Gusts up to 35 miles an hour, and more than a half inch of rain is expected. The odds of a tornado are small - under 3 percent in New York - but not nonexistent. Warm, too - high around 76. Hold tight to your umbrella. Subways: Click for latest status. Rails: Metro-North's New Haven line is back to full service after days of power-related woe. Roads: Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s. Air Travel: There have been weather-related delays at local airports today. Click for latest status or check with your airline. Mr. Lhota is on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC at 10 a.m., meets with community leaders in Chinatown, and appears on NY1"s "Road to City Hall" at 7 p.m. Mr. de Blasio is on Curtis Sliwa's show on AM 970 at 7:30 a.m. and on WCBS-880 at 2:10 p.m. The schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, and the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, are on a panel called "A Reality Check on Testing" at an NBC education summit at the New York Public Library at 9 a.m. Miley Cyrus sings in Rockefeller Plaza on the "Today" show. Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney are moving in together, at least politically. They're opening a joint office in Williamsburg at 6 p.m. The poet Richard Blanco, who read at President Obama's second inauguration, reads at John Jay College on West 59th Street. 1:30 p.m. Free, RSVP recommended More poetry: Justin Marks and Dorothea Lasky read at KGB bar in the East Village. A third motorcyclist was charged in last week's attack on an S.U.V. driver on the Henry Hudson Parkway. An undercover detective was also among the bikers when the confrontation began, the police said. The state attorney general subpoenaed the records of Airbnb, the site many New Yorkers use to rent out their homes - in some cases illegally - while on vacation. A 3-year-old Queens girl was fatally struck by an S.U.V. as she crossed the street. Promised help for New Yorkers under the Affordable Care Act is impossible to find in some cases. If you sic your dog on someone you can be charged with criminal possession of a weapon. The Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee is donating his archive to Columbia University. The elusive British street artist Banksy drew crowds to an installation inside a delivery truck. Yet another sitcom set in Brooklyn, "Brooklyn Taxi," is hitting the airwaves - in France. Giants lose to Eagles, 36-21. Jets play in Atlanta tonight. Happy death day, Edgar Allan Poe. The former resident of Manhattan and the Bronx perished on this date in 1849. This evening, a Greenwich Village walking tour will visit places where Poe wrote some of his more famous works. The tour, conducted by Boroughs of the Dead, is sold out, but it will repeat on Saturday. Tickets ($20) were still available this morning. You can also catch the new Poe exhibit at the Morgan Library. Or you may simply sit at home, alone, rereading "The Raven" and awaiting a gentle tapping on your chamber door. The weatherman promises a midnight dreary. Michael M. Grynbaum contributed reporting.