A woman was killed when a tree fell on a vehicle about 6:50 p.m. on Grand Central Parkway near Jewel Avenue in Queens. The police said the woman had pulled her car to the side of the parkway, possibly to avoid the storm.

The police could not immediately provide the victim’s name. They said they believed she was alone, but that was not entirely clear because the tree was on the car.

A loss for booklovers became a plus for clotheshorses on Wednesday when Century 21 revealed it will take over the space being vacated by Barnes & Noble near Lincoln Center.

There have been songs about Sept. 11, 2001, and there have been movies, and so it has always just a matter of time — 8 years and 51 weeks, it turns out — before New York learned whether it is ready for September 11: The Rock Musical.

While the idea of imposing a two-term limit for city officials will be on the ballot this November, those elected before the 2013 election would not be affected. That would give sitting City Council members the opportunity to run for a third term, regardless of how New Yorkers vote this fall.

The decision by the commission effectively means that a two-term limit would not be uniformly enforced on the entire Council until 2021.

But the deteriorating 2010 season is now attached to the Mets like a tin can and will apparently follow them everywhere. No sooner did the Mets gather in their locker room to play the Houston Astros on Monday night than the team announced that Francisco Rodriguez, their highly paid closer, had torn a ligament in his right thumb, apparently during a violent altercation with the father of his common-law wife last Wednesday night.

As it turns out, it has also led to the near certainty that Rodriguez will have surgery for the torn ligament — which is on his pitching hand — and that he will be out for the remainder of the season. The Mets, in turn, will now determine whether they have any chance of voiding the remainder of Rodriguez’s contract, which runs through 2011, with an option for 2012.