A wary pedestrian crosses toward Battery Park without the help of a crosswalk signal. All 12 signals at the intersection where the West Side Highway meets Battery Place are covered up as seen in the insert.

Who forgot the lights? Signals crossed at wild West St.
By Skye H. McFarlane
Rochelle and Waygon Sanders, a pair of honeymooners from Mississippi, decided to take advantage of the mild New York weather Tuesday morning with a visit to Battery Park. The only problem was, they had to get there first.

Mayor announces new W.T.C. name listings
By Josh Rogers
Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that 9/11 victims will be listed in groups at the World Trade Center memorial, but the decision was blasted by some family members who said it did not answer enough of their concerns about how their loved ones’ names will be viewed.

Bike plan is less than Grand, some say
By Lori Haught
Community Board 3 passed a resolution in the spring saying it did not support a bike lane on Grand St. By November, the city Department of Transportation had put it in.

Love and rage at memorial for cyclist slain on path
By Jefferson Siegel
Eric Ng, the 22-year-old cyclist who police say was killed by a drunken driver on Dec. 1 on the Hudson River Park bike path, was remembered by family and friends in a day of memorials last Saturday.

Getting Fifi to pay for abandoned mutts’ care
By Lori Haught
Animal Haven celebrated the opening of its Soho space with a gala event on Tuesday, Dec. 12, even though the space isn’t quite ready to open yet.

Old and new salts to get dog spa by the Seaport
By Priya Idiculla
Larger dogs will finally have a grooming place in Lower Manhattan like their smaller-framed friends. The Salty Paw is billed as a “dog accessory emporium and grooming spa” and is slated to open in March at 38 Peck Slip. Big dogs are welcome.

City halts Trump project
By Lincoln Anderson
The discovery of human remains at the site of the planned Trump Soho condo-hotel at Spring and Varick Sts. led the Department of Buildings on Tuesday to issue a stop-work order for the project.

By the light of the big screen
By Lisa Heffernan
Most bands are influenced by other musicians, but film actually plays a bigger role in shaping the sound of New York-based indie quintet Daylight’s for the Birds.

Brilliant casting keeps ‘Vertical Hour’ ticking
By Scott Harrah
British playwright David Hare is certainly no fan of President Bush. Earlier this year, Hare’s politically charged drama at the Public Theater, “Stuff Happens,” used a documentary-style format to make strong statements about all the shady dealings that led to the war in Iraq.