Explore More Police warned that “elevated vigilance” is necessary during this year’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center, according to an internal NYPD memo obtained by The Post Tuesday — as pro-Palestinian protesters announced theyplan to “flood” the iconic event in support of Gaza. The memo notes that there are no “specific or credible” threats targeting the world-renowned annual event — which is expected to draw tens of thousands of revelers to Midtown on Wednesday.

Robert E. Simon Jr., a real estate entrepreneur described as a visionary when he carved the planned community of Reston out of the Northern Virginia countryside in the 1960s, only to be forced out when tensions arose over financing and slow sales, died Sept. 21 at his home in Reston. He was 101. The Reston Historic Trust announced the death. No cause was provided. Although Mr. Simon remained indelibly linked to Reston — the Fairfax County town was named for his initials, R.

McClure disliked comparisons to Benatar, preferring to identify herself with her idol Grace Slick. The album's first single, "Danger Zone", failed to chart, but the follow-up, "Holdin' On", peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album did not sell as well as the label had hoped (peaking at number 121 on the Billboard album chart), and she was dropped, never to release another album. She did, however, contribute three songs to Soundtrack for The Terminator in 1984.

By David RobsonFeatures correspondent Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)Does the damp cause arthritis? Can air pressure shifts bring a headache? Will the temperature influence a baby's sex? David Robson finds some surprising evidence for the folklore. In 2013, neuroscientists reported one of the strangest case reports in the history of medicine: a man who claimed to be able to smell the weather. An approaching storm, he said, produced an almost unbearable odour of skunk excrement, mixed with onions.

The narrator of “Beep,” the new novel by Bill Roorbach, is a traveling squirrel monkey who speaks in a made-up pidgin English and communicates telepathically with other animals and even plants. Reading this picaresque adventure story is a nearly psychedelic experience, made for those who like to read outside the box. Though his first novel, “Life Among Giants,” was a bestseller and the ones since (among them “The Remedy for Love” and most recently “Lucky Turtle”) have won acclaim, Roorbach is something of a cult figure.