:30 a.m. M.T.A. Finance Committee holds a special meeting to discuss the agency's enormous fiscal problems. At 347 Madison Avenue on the fifth floor. Noon. Residents of the Lower East Side protest the lack of translation at hearings related to the area's rezoning plan. At 59 Hester Street. 1 p.m. The Willets Point Defense ...

It would be an understatement to say traffic agents aren't well-liked on the congested streets of New York. While they patrol for parking violations and write traffic tickets, they are routinely spit on and yelled at by angry car owners or passers-by, and, at least ...