March 14: Get Ready For the Green

Good morning, Little Neck! Even though the parade route this year along Manhattan's 5th Avenue is shorter this year, the fighting Irish spirit of St. Patrick's Day week will not be beat — even during the toughest fiscal times this city has seen since the late 1970s. 

Here are your 5 Things for this start to the workweek:

1. Check out our coverage later today on 's Purim celebration yesterday. Update: here's the link to our story: http://patch.com/A-fMM8 

2. As reported in , the mentally disturbed suspect in the fatal pushing of a police officer at a Brooklyn apartment building on Sunday was charged last night on two counts of aggravated murder.

3. Award winning poet Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma will hold a  at the Little Neck Plaza  at 7 p.m.

4. If financial policy is more your cup of tea, visit Great Neck Library tonight to welcome home , a former New York Times reporter and private equity investor who just wrapped up a stint as a top economic advisor in the Obama administration. Rattner will discuss his book, "Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry."

5. It's Johnnies vs. 'Zags as the St. John's mens squad makes it into the NCAA tournament.