"better" is a relative term. They didn't say things were better, or even as good as last year. (And last year was not as good as 2000).
They said things were better than the months immediately following 9/11. Everything is still down from same time last year, its just that its not as far down as it was when they compared November '01 to November '00.
Still, from what some people are saying on the parks board, several of the April e-nights were cancelled, and then a few weeks later the hours for those nights were extended.
If that's what happens in May, and even June, I'm all for it. But it does seem like a bit of a PR problem to cancel enights that weren't posted that long ago without announcing any extension of hours.
Unless things are really starting to look down for May...