Friday, November 22 is a holiday gridlock alert day, one of the heaviest vehicular traffic days of the holiday season.

NYC residents, commuters and visitors are strongly advised to use mass transit.

The remaining gridlock alert days for this holiday season are:

Wednesday, November 27
Wednesday, December 4
Friday, December 6
Thursday, December 12
Friday, December 13
Wednesday, December 18
Thursday, December 19
Friday, December 20

As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy approaches on November 22nd, 1963, C-SPAN has aggregated a number of video resources to help you learn more about the day, his life, and the major events of his presidency.

Learn all about the life and accomplishments of President Kennedy in a short biographical vignette, as well as view historical newsreel footage of The Cuban Missile Crisis and President Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Speech.

Come 2014 it will be illegal to smoke in NYC if you're not 21, thanks to health and fitness guru Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The billionaire mayor has signed a bill raising the minimum age to 21 to buy tobacco products inside The Big Apple's 5 Burroughs.

This move is the latest in Bloomberg's public health initiatives, where he went from banning smoking in bars and restaurants to an ill fated attempt to ban large-sized sugary beverages.

The lame duck mayor has also outlawed discounts on cigarettes, set a price floor on a pack of smokes, and allow the city to harshly punish stores that try to get around collecting tobacco taxes.

Over a billion people will die from smoking around the world this century and he claims that he is trying to keep New Yorkers alive.

Talk with an National Cancer Institute smoking cessation counselor for help quitting and answers to smoking-related questions in English or Spanish - call toll free within the United States, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

It has been 150 years to the day since US President5 Abraham Lincoln delivered The Gettysburg Address. Now that Google has put five versions of the speech online in extremely close detail. It underscores that even the great President Lincoln had to edit his work.

Today, the speech is set in the history books, but back in 1863, Lincoln was constantly fiddling with his message. The early editions of the great speech did not include "under God," while the phrase "a new birth of freedom," one of its most famous lines, wasn't added until after journalist Samuel Wilkeson used something similar to describe a battle in which his son died.

In fact, three versions in Google's exhibit were written down after Lincoln delivered the historic address.

http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/lincoln-s-gettysburg-ad…