May 4: Excelsior

Excelsior, which translates to "ever upward" in Latin: it's the motto of our state, and it's a good description of Little Neck Patch's philosophy of late.

Starting today, we've added this new feature to our site, one that will allow members of the Little Neck community to add their voices to our site. Whether you're a teacher looking to connect with other teachers, parents and members of the general populace on the issues important to you, or a retired person who wants to sound off on problems that haven't gotten a lot of attention in the press — we want to hear from you.

So let's start the conversation, shall we? 

Here are your 5 Things for this Wednesday:

1. The serenade continues today: at Great Neck's Sip City, there's a this week until Mother's Day. 

2. Check out  starting at 10 a.m. at the Samuel Field Y in Little Neck.

3. Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled the taxi of tomorrow, complete with passenger-side airbags and a "low-annoyance" horn. Now if we could only get them to pick up fares in Queens...

4. Councilman Mark Weprin, D-Oakland Gardens, fresh off the testimony of  earlier this week, called on city Comptroller John Liu yesterday to investigate the Department of Finance in the wake of the "glitch" in property tax assessments for area co-ops and condos. 

5. Alternate side parking rules are in effect.