🍽️ 2026 Dining Out by The West Sider Every outdoor table, the NYT 100 in Manhattan and the Knicks bars, on one map. Bring a sweater. Bring an appetite.

🍂 The 2026 Autumn Guide Leaf walks, orchards, Oktoberfests, concerts in twilight, Halloween, and weekend trips. We hope to surprise you.

🍎 It's Getting Crisp Farm Picking Guide! Apple picking and more farm fun! Addresses, drive times, who's cash-only, who needs a reservation, and the two farms that have no apples this year.

Like Seinfeld, we "choose not to run." Nearly 60,000 people have made a different choice. This Sunday, they'll run 26.2 miles through five boroughs and over five bridges, voluntarily, and finish in Central Park.

This year, we have several West Siders running. Congratulations to everyone who's trained. With daylight saving time ending Sunday morning, we're just hoping there are no Jean-Paul incidents.

The first NYC Marathon, in 1970, cost $1 to enter and consisted of running laps around Central Park until you'd covered 26.2 miles. Fifty-five people finished. The other 72 came to their senses. In 1976, organizers expanded the course to all five boroughs for America's bicentennial. This year is the 50th anniversary of that course, and runners have raised more than $100 million for charity.

Why 26.2 miles instead of a civilized 26? Blame the British monarchy.

The marathon was conceived for the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, when French scholar Michel Bréal, the father of semantics, proposed a race from Marathon to Athens, inspired by the legend of Pheidippides. That course was roughly 25 miles.

At the 1908 London Olympics, the course ran from Windsor Castle to the royal box at White City Stadium: 26 miles and 385 yards. The distance was eventually standardized in 1921. More than a century later, runners worldwide are still doing the extra 385 yards because the royals wanted a good seat.

The 1908 winner, incidentally, was Irish-American New Yorker Johnny Hayes, who worked at Bloomingdale's and trained on the store's rooftop cinder track.

Our own Upper West Sider David Rosenstein will also be running the five-borough endurance test on Sunday, while juggling. It's called joggling, and yes, it's a real sport. Canadian Michal Kapral set the joggling world record at the 2007 Toronto Waterfront Marathon, running 2:50:12 while juggling three balls and chewing gum simultaneously.

But David's most impressive feat may have nothing to do with his hand-eye coordination: he's raised more than $12,500 for the Ali Forney Center, which supports homeless LGBTQ+ youth. That's more than 150% over his original $5,000 goal.

"Over 40% of unhoused adolescents are LGBTQIA+," said Rosenstein. "No youth should ever be without housing or food, and it's especially challenging for those in the queer community."

When he isn't running Central Park with more than 100 other LGBTQIA+ runners on Wednesdays and Saturdays, you might find David at the 72nd Street Juice Generation or Broad Nosh on 86th, ordering an everything bagel with dairy-free scallion cream cheese, lox and the works.

His ideal weekend night? "A drink at The Owl's Tail, sushi at Momoya, post-dinner drinks at the tiki bar, and then Salt & Straw on the way home. Perfect!"

David's bib number is 6965. Look for a blue Front Runners singlet and three blue and black beanbags. Cheer from the sidelines or donate to his cause. He ran last month's Staten Island Half Marathon without dropping a single ball. Most of us can't tap into the subway on the first try.

His alarm is Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go."

Unlike Jean-Paul, David has no excuse for oversleeping.

The Statue of Liberty turned 140 on Wednesday. For nearly a century, New York had two Statues of Liberty. One welcomed millions of immigrants to America. The other advertised a storage warehouse on West 64th Street.

In 1902, William H. Flattau, a Russian immigrant and devoted fan of the original, regularly visited Bedloe Island just to climb around her insides. When he built a warehouse at 43 W 64th St, he decided to "combine patriotism with publicity" and built a Lady Liberty of his own.

To maximize the notoriety, her torch had three light bulbs. "You could see it ten blocks away!" the warehouse manager told The New Yorker in 1939. The lights lasted a year before the wind dislodged a bulb, sending it crashing onto the sidewalk beside an unsuspecting Mr. Pugh. Flattau pulled the plug. Lady Liberty went dark. Mr. Pugh, who narrowly escaped death by patriotism, did not sue.

Little Liberty called the UWS home until 2002, when she moved to the Brooklyn Museum's sculpture garden. Even Liberty Jr. couldn't afford to stay on the Upper West Side.

Then in May 2023, all 8,500 pounds of her took a 1,000-mile road trip to the National Building Arts Center in Sauget, Illinois, just outside St. Louis, her new home. This week, she's still lying on her back, waiting for her own pedestal. "But not for much longer," the center posted. (We've heard that from Wegmans since 2024.)

Paris has at least six Statues of Liberty in various sizes. Apparently, the French never quite got over giving her away.

Back in New York Harbor, the original needed a major tune-up before turning 100. Before her 1986 centennial, she got a top-to-bottom restoration. The crew removed her paint with liquid nitrogen and replaced her rusting iron skeleton with stainless steel, three bars at a time.

Meanwhile, on the Upper West Side, replacing a radiator still requires five calls to the super, three emails to management, and a 311 complaint.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." On Sunday, 60,000 of them will be running through the five boroughs. By afternoon, they'll be wrapped in foil blankets.

🐕 The UWS is out of the Dog Mayor race. Both of our candidates, Enzo and Violet, were eliminated. Monday's final is Dr. Computer Chips of Park Slope vs. Machka of Sunnyside. We'll vote on Tuesday instead, for a different office.

🚧 Marathon security, by the numbers. Thousands of officers along the route, bomb squad, mounted units, helicopters, drones and more than 10,000 metal barricades, per the NYPD. Commissioner Jessica Tisch said there are no known specific or credible threats. That's one barricade for every six runners.

Coming...eventually: 🛒 Wegmans — 1932 Broadway (64th–65th). The signs went up in June 2024, and then nothing happened for two years. This week a spokesperson said the company is "currently designing a store and obtaining the necessary permits." Will it actually open? "Yes. Just no timeline yet." It would be the second Wegmans in Manhattan, after Astor Place. At this rate, the property may qualify for landmark status before the store opens.

Opened: ⛸️ Winter Village at Bryant Park — Bryant Park, Midtown. The rink and the holiday shops opened Wednesday. Skating is FREE; skate rentals cost extra. The shops run through Jan 3, and the rink stays through Feb 28. Friday 4 to 6pm is Tricks and Treats, FREE for kids, with face painting, pumpkin decorating, a puppet show and trick-or-treat totes while they last. Halloween and the holidays, same week. Midtown doesn't wait.

Coming: 🎄 The Rockefeller Center tree — Rockefeller Center, Midtown. This year's is a 76-foot Norway spruce from West Edmeston, NY. It arrives Sat Nov 7, and Meet the Tree Day runs 10am to 1pm, FREE, first come, first served. The lighting is Wed Dec 2. The turkey hasn't even been pardoned and the tree is already moving in.

Closing: 🚲 Trek — 156 W 72nd St (Broadway–Columbus). The bike shop, open since 2019, is merging into Trek's Chelsea store, and the closing sale has discounts on just about anything with wheels or Lycra. Last day: Sat Nov 7. Everything must go. Including the bike shop.

Coming: 💈 Barberino's — The Shops at Columbus Circle, 10 Columbus Circle (59th St). Founded in Milan in 2015, the Italian barbershop is opening its fourth NYC location, offering haircuts, beard reshaping, Italian classic shaves and scalp treatments. No opening date, but the sign promises "grooming soon." We'll allow it.

Coming: 🧴 BeautySpace — The Shops at Columbus Circle, 10 Columbus Circle (59th St). A niche-fragrance shop carrying more than 30 brands is moving in next door to Barberino's. Its first standalone store opened in Union Square last month. No opening date yet. A haircut next door, a new scent here. All that's missing is somewhere to go.

Coming: 💎 Rowan — The Shops at Columbus Circle, 10 Columbus Circle (59th St). A nurse-staffed ear-piercing studio is opening on the ground floor, its second Manhattan location after the UES. Rowan says "coming soon," Google says November, and the Rag says winter. The opening date remains a mystery. The daily negotiations over ear piercing do not.

Reopened: ☕ Blu Café — 120 Riverside Blvd (at 66th). Last week we told you it had closed for renovations. A staff member told the Rag it reopened Sat Oct 24. Short renovation. We'll take it.

Coming: 🥕 A community fridge at SAJ — 15 W 86th St (Columbus–CPW). The synagogue is starting a community fridge pilot through its justice initiative. No opening date yet. A fridge that's always open. On the UWS, that's an amenity.

Staying: ⛪ Metro New York Baptist Association — 236 W 72nd St. The group has owned its six-story building for more than 50 years, and two sales fell through. Now it says it will "remain rooted and grounded where he has called us." More than 100 mission teams and 1,200 volunteers stay there every year. Some people see a failed closing. They saw a sign.

For Sale: 🎈 A parade-view duplex — 25 Central Park West. Four bedrooms on the fourth and fifth floors, asking $8.7 million. The sellers "always have three generations coming over for the parade," their agent told Mansion Global. Three generations, one window, $8.7 million.

🌤️ The weekend forecast is a gift. Friday clears to sunny, high of 69. Halloween is partly sunny and cooler, 59 by day and down to 46 at night, with no rain in the forecast, so the costumes don't need raincoats. Marathon Sunday is partly sunny and 61, with just a 5% chance of rain. AccuWeather calls it "nice weather for the marathon." We agree.

🗳️ Last three days of early voting, Fri through Sun, 9am to 5pm. There's no early voting Monday. Find your site before you go.

🕰️ Clocks fall back Sunday at 2am. Sunset Monday is about an hour earlier than you're used to.

🎬 Possible Love, Francesca Beale Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 W 65th St, daily through Thu Nov 5 at 1pm, 4:15pm and 7:45pm. Lee Chang-dong's Venice Silver Lion winner, in Korean with subtitles, 164 minutes. $19 ($16 students and seniors).

🎬 Get Out in Concert, New York Philharmonic, Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, Fri and Sat 7:30pm. Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning thriller plays on the big screen while the Phil performs Michael Abels's score live, with Anthony Parnther conducting. Last call: Halloween is the final show. Starts at $73.

🎖️ A Few Good Men, Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, 150 W 65th St, in previews for a 13-week run. Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama, with Tom Blyth, Krysta Rodriguez and Bradley Whitford. 2 hours 35 minutes. Starts at $134. Lottery seats are $49 with fees, and student rush is $32 at the box office.

🩰 Martha Graham: The Mother of Psychological Dance, Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, through Jan 2. Graham's dance company turns 100, so the library opened its archive: set pieces by Isamu Noguchi, Graham's own costumes and rarely seen papers from the woman called the mother of modern dance. The final guided tours are Sat Nov 7 at 11am and 1pm. FREE.

🍝 Bottomless pasta at Parm, 235 Columbus Ave (70th–71st), through Sun. All-you-can-eat pasta for Marathon weekend, at every New York Parm. Our joggler, David Rosenstein, is carb-loading here. $30.

🏃 TCS NYC Marathon Opening Ceremony, finish-line grandstand, Central Park (enter at Central Park West and 63rd St), seating opens 4pm, Parade of Nations about 4:30pm, finale about 6:30pm. Runners from around the world march to the finish line two days early. Grandstand seats are first come, first served. One bag per person, no bigger than a purse. FREE.

💃 Ambrose Akinmusire and Aszure Barton: BEND, Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St, 7:30pm, closing night. A trumpeter and a choreographer share the stage for an hour. Ages 8 and up. Audio description Friday. Choose-What-You-Pay.

🎤 Mark Normand, Marion Grodin, Chuck Nice and more, New York Comedy Club, 236 W 78th St, 8:30pm. Normand headlines the Friday late show. $45 plus a fee, a $20 item minimum, tax and 18% gratuity. 16 and up.

🎤 Corinne Fisher, Seaton Smith, Amos Gill and Linette Palladino, West Side Comedy Club, 201 W 75th St, 10pm. Seaton Smith, of Late Night with Seth Meyers, leads the late show. From $12.50, plus a two-item minimum. 18 and up, or 16 with a guardian.

📚 New Classics Film Series: Ghostbusters, Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, 1pm. Who you gonna call? The library. Register for a ticket. FREE.

🎃 Car-free blocks for trick-or-treating. The city's Trick-or-Streets list for the UWS:

Plus All Angels' second annual Hallowfest Block Party, out on the street in front of the church at 251 W 80th St, 3 to 5pm: games, candy, crafts and a much-anticipated bouncy house. Sunset is 5:54pm.

🎷 Haunted Fountain at the Cathedral, W 111th St at Amsterdam Ave, 2 to 6pm. The Kimera Festival plays live music from 2 to 5pm, trick-or-treating runs 3 to 5pm, there are crafts, and the costume parade and contest go from 5 to 6pm. Pets welcome in the parade. Ages 3 and up, adults must stay, no registration, treats while they last. FREE.

🍝 Pre-Race Pasta Party, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West (enter at 81st St), 5:30 to 8:30pm. All-you-can-eat pasta for runners, with the planetarium show and Shalane Flanagan's 2017 gold medal on hand. $70, under 3 FREE.

🔪 Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, David Rubenstein Atrium, 1887 Broadway, 7:30pm. Yes, on a Saturday. Jason finally makes it to New York, with a live hip-hop score by Shaolin Jazz. Ages 17 and up. FREE.

🎃 Ian Lara, Maddy Smith, Neko White and Chase DuRousseau, New York Comedy Club, 236 W 78th St, 8:30pm. Halloween night stand-up with Ian Lara at the top. $25 while the limited discount lasts, then $45, plus a fee, a $20 item minimum, tax and 18% gratuity. 16 and up.

🎃 Paul Mecurio, Nick Griffin, Kacey Lane Spivey and more, West Side Comedy Club, 201 W 75th St, 10pm. Mecurio, an Emmy and Peabody winner from The Daily Show's writers' room, takes the Halloween late show. From $12.50, plus a two-item minimum. 18 and up, or 16 with a guardian.

📺 Watching from the couch, Sun. WABC Channel 7 starts pre-race coverage at 7am and the race at 8am, through 1pm. ESPN2 carries it 8 to 11:30am, in Spanish on ESPN3. ABC7NY.com streams the finish line 10:30am to 6pm. FREE.

🏃 Watching the Marathon from the west side, Central Park. Starts on Staten Island: the pro wheelchair racers at 8am, the pro women at 8:40am, the pro men at 9:05am, then five waves from 9:10am to 11:30am. The finish is on West Drive at 67th St. Standing room runs inside the park from Columbus Circle to the grandstands, with no spectator access north of the grandstands. Enter at Broadway and W 61st St. Every entrance screens bags. Leave the chairs, speakers, coolers, umbrellas, big bags and drones at home, per the NYPD. FREE.

🦕 Finishers get into AMNH free, Sun Nov 1 through Sun Nov 8. Show your medal at the ticket desk. You earned the dinosaurs.

🚶 Free Walking Tour of Historic Bloomingdale, south end of Straus Park, Broadway at W 106th St, 2pm. Jim Mackin walks you through the village that was here before the UWS. No reservations. FREE.

🎭 Tosca, Metropolitan Opera, 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Sun 3pm and Fri Nov 6 at 8pm. Puccini's diva, a villain and a famous last leap. A Marathon Sunday matinee for anyone who'd rather sit. Starts at $45 (Family Circle Boxes, partial view, with fees).

💀 Día de Muertos Celebration, David Rubenstein Atrium, 1887 Broadway, Sun 6pm, about 90 minutes. Día de Muertos isn't Mexican Halloween. It's a reunion: families welcome their dead back with altars of photos, marigolds and favorite things. The Atrium's community ofrenda is up through Sunday, and you can add to it. Bring a copy (not the original, it won't come back) of a photo, note or letter for someone you've lost. No food, candles or incense. Then Guachinangos, a band with Mexican folk roots, plays son jarocho, cumbia, rancheras and more, and the crowd is expected to join in. All ages. First come, first served. FREE.

This week: Cheer for your neighbors.

Last week, 68% of you voted to bring back cursive. Grandma's letters have been granted a stay of execution. Full results below.

This week, consider cheering on the marathon runners. It's one of our favorite displays of humanity: New Yorkers voluntarily standing outside for hours, shouting encouragement at complete strangers. In any other context, someone would call 311.

Special thanks to seven-time NYC Marathon finisher Britney C. for introducing us to the magic of it all.

And a tip: many runners have their names on their shirts. Use them. Where else in New York can you scream a stranger's name at the top of your lungs and have them thank you for it? We'll be yelling, "Go, David!"

Runners swapped notes on Reddit about what actually helps. A few tips for being a great spectator:

Running it yourself, or know a neighbor who is? Tell us their name and finish time after the race, and we'll cheer for them in next week's issue.

Last issue's poll: "Should Upper West Side schools bring back cursive?"

Grandma's letters won in a landslide. Grandma is not surprised.

💧 Central Park's north end is getting plumbing. Construction has begun on a $35.7 million project connecting the Pool, the Loch and the Harlem Meer. Led by the Central Park Conservancy and the city, it'll reduce flooding in Harlem and East Harlem and cut the park's drinking-water use. A new drain will connect the Pool to the main beneath Central Park West at 98th St. Completion: fall 2028. The park is getting a plumbing job. The estimate did not include tipping.

🐦 Birding Bob's bird walks, Central Park, Fri 8:30am (Conservatory Garden, Fifth Ave at 105th); Sat 7:30am and 9:30am, Sun 9:30am (Boathouse, near 74th and East Drive). Friday and Saturday are the last walks of the fall season. $10 cash; $20 Sunday. The 7:30am crowd gets a FREE second walk. Apparently, the early bird gets a loyalty program.

🧘 Riverside Field House fall classes, 102nd Street Field House, Riverside Park (enter at 102nd St and Riverside Dr). Bodyroll Mon 10:30am, yoga Wed 9:30am, mat Pilates Thu 11am. Bring your own mat and register through Riverside Park Conservancy. FREE. The only thing getting stretched is you, not your budget.

👻 Haunted Heights: Halloween at Morningside Park, North Lawn, Morningside Park, enter at 120th St and Morningside Ave (picnic oval), 3 to 6pm. Come in costume for music, crafts and a little science from Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and Space Initiative: kids make their own lava lamps and get up close with human and animal brains. FREE.

👾 Monster Costume Quest, Children's Museum of Manhattan, 212 W 83rd St, 10:30am to 4:15pm. A floor-by-floor monster hunt: one monster hides on each floor, clues lead the way, and kids who find all four collect a prize downstairs. All ages.

🐳 Halloween Celebration, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, 11am to 4pm. Music, crafts and candy under the Blue Whale. Costumes yes, masks no. $25 plus general admission, which is pay what you wish for New York State residents with ID and $37 for everyone else ($30 seniors and students, $22 kids).

🎃 Lotus Garden Halloween Party, The Lotus Garden, W 97th St between Broadway and West End Ave, noon to 2pm, rain date Sunday. A party up the stairs in the rooftop garden. It isn't wheelchair accessible. FREE.

🕺 1976 Historical Hallowe'en Party, New York Historical, 170 Central Park West, 1 to 3pm. A silent disco, pet rocks and a guess-the-era costume contest, all 1970s. All ages, and it isn't a drop-off. Free with museum admission. Your bell-bottoms finally have a reason.

🍬 Trick-or-Treat!, Bloomingdale Library, 150 W 100th St, 2 to 4:30pm. Say "trick or treat" in the children's room for a lollipop, then finish the scavenger hunt for another. Ages 3 to 12. FREE.

🦛 Hippo Halloween Parade, from the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Riverside Dr at 89th St, to Hippo Playground, 3:30 to 5:30pm. Costumed kids march behind Ramblin' Dan's Freewheelin' Band. FREE.

⭐🐰 Halloween Hallway, West End Church, 245 W 77th St, 4pm. The entrance hallway becomes Alice in Wonderland, with candy at the end of the rabbit hole. The church says the whole community is welcome. FREE.

🎃 Spooky Sanctuary Trick or Treat, Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, 263 W 86th St, 4 to 7pm. Trick-or-treating inside the church, for all ages. FREE.

🌻 Halloween in the Garden, West 87th Street Park & Garden, 55 W 87th St, 4:30 to 7pm. Pumpkin carving, balloon animals and candy, on a block that's closed to cars. Adults welcome, costumes encouraged. FREE.

🏅 Mini Marathon Runners, Children's Museum of Manhattan, 212 W 83rd St, 10:30am to 12:30pm and 2 to 4:15pm, with medals at 11:15am and 2:45pm. Marathon Sunday for runners whose legs are about a foot long.

🦄 Unicorns for President! Dragons for Mayor!, Children's Museum of Manhattan, Tue 10:30am to 12:30pm and 2 to 4:15pm. Election Day at the museum, with candidates nobody will argue about.

🦊 Family Movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox, St. Agnes Library, 444 Amsterdam Ave, Tue 3:30pm. A stop-motion Roald Dahl, in which one fox outwits three angry farmers. Rated PG, 87 minutes. No registration. FREE.

🎻 Little Learners: Mozart for Munchkins, Riverside Library, 127 Amsterdam Ave, Thu 11 to 11:45am. A live concert for babies and toddlers up to 36 months, with violin, cello, French horn, trombone and more. The grand finale is an instrument petting zoo. Yes, they can touch the trombone. Registration opens Sun Nov 1 at 3pm and caps at 15 kids, so set an alarm. FREE.

📄 De Papel, Clark Studio Theater, Lincoln Center, Fri Nov 6 at 11am and 2pm, also Sat and Sun, about 30 minutes. Chile's Silencio Blanco makes puppets out of newspaper and chopsticks, and here the audience helps one come to life. Weekends fill up fast; Fridays have the most tickets. Sold out? A day-of line forms at the box office. Choose-What-You-Pay.

👕 Teen ArtsLab: Design in Motion, Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, Fri Nov 6, 4 to 6pm. Teens screen-print totes and T-shirts inspired by the museum's Nike show. FREE for high schoolers 13 to 18 with a school ID. Registration required.

Reminder: All Children's Museum of Manhattan programs are included with museum admission, which starts at $17.

🏠 Housing Court Answers Annual Conference, Fordham University School of Law, 150 W 62nd St, 9:30am–5pm. This year's theme is tenants' right to repairs, in housing court and out of it. PWYW, suggested $25. For anyone whose landlord considers a bucket an adequate response to a ceiling leak.

👥 CB7 Health & Human Services Committee, 250 W 87th St, and Zoom, 6:30pm. Goddard Riverside on street homeless outreach and WSCAH on hunger on the west side.

📚 Thalia Book Club: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th St, 7pm. Marie-Helene Bertino, Rivka Galchen and Joshua Rothman discuss Arthur C. Clarke's novel about a computer with opinions. Stephen Lang reads. About 75 minutes. $19–$27, plus a $5 fee. HAL would prefer you didn't attend.

🥚 Good Eggs, New York Comedy Club, 236 W 78th St, 7:30pm. Mark Normand, Gary Vider and Matt Ruby's weekly show. The hosts often perform, but it isn't guaranteed. $25 plus a fee and a $20 item minimum. 16 and up.

🎙️ Pivot Podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway at 74th St, 7:30pm. Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway bring their twice-weekly argument about tech, business and politics to the stage. Two microphones, two strong opinions, and absolutely no danger of an awkward silence. Starts at $29.

🗳️ Election Day, 6am–9pm. Your Election Day site may not be your early voting site. Find yours. Five city charter proposals are on the back of the ballot. Yes, the back. NYC Votes has the official summaries. Flip it over. No trash, compost or recycling pickup that day, and city offices are closed, per Council Member Gale Brewer. No ballot advice here. Democracy is happening. Your garbage can wait.

💃 Paul Taylor Dance Company, David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, Tue 7pm (opening night), Wed 6pm, Thu 7pm and Fri 8pm, with the season running through Nov 22. $10 tickets for opening night.

🍌 Not Ripe Bananas, West Side Comedy Club, 201 W 75th St, 8pm. Comics trying out new material. No cover, no minimum. FREE.

✊ For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman, Fordham University, Lincoln Center campus, 155 W 60th St, McMahon Room 109, and online, 12:30–2pm. Author Cathryn Prince talks with Amy Levine-Kennedy about the labor organizer's life. Registration required. PWYW.

🏠 Housing Clinic: Animals, Goddard Riverside, 593 Columbus Ave (at 88th), 6pm. This month's topic is animals: a presentation and Q&A, plus a free consultation with a housing attorney. Co-sponsored by Goddard Riverside and TakeRoot Justice, with Council Member Gale Brewer's office. Arrive early to sign in; space is limited. Info at (212) 873-0282.

🏗️ CB7 full board, New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W 64th St, and Zoom, 6:30pm. The agenda is up, and the Preservation Committee is on it, though the resolutions aren't filled in yet. This is the meeting where the tower over the Gristedes at 500–504 Columbus is expected. Community comments start around 6:40pm, two minutes each, and the board takes written testimony too. Have an opinion? Email the board. Show up, log on or hit send.

🎬 Grey Gardens: 20th Anniversary Celebration, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th St, 7pm. Christine Ebersole and Erin Davie revisit the musical with composer Scott Frankel. About 90 minutes. Starts at $75.

🎸 Seven Guitars, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, 150 W 65th St, previews begin Thu, evenings at 8pm plus matinees. Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs August Wilson's play, with Russell Hornsby and Michael Potts. It's the hot ticket in town: only about 10 of 50 shows still have seats. Prices vary, through Telecharge.

🩺 Mammogram Bus, outside Council Member Gale Brewer's office, 563 Columbus Ave (at 87th), 9am–4:30pm. The American-Italian Cancer Foundation's mobile unit, for NYC women 40 to 75 who haven't had a mammogram in the past 12 months. No fees, no copays. Call (877) 628-9090 for an appointment.

🎃 Help with Halloween in the Garden, West 87th Street Park & Garden, 55 W 87th St, Sat Oct 31: setup noon to 4pm, the party 4:30 to 7pm, cleanup after. The garden needs hands for pumpkins, balloons, candy and the mess. No experience needed. Email to sign up.

🥫 Food drive with City Harvest, St. Agnes Library, 444 Amsterdam Ave, and the Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, through Jan 17. Drop off canned proteins, vegetables, fruit and soup, peanut butter, rice, pasta, boxed mac and cheese, cereal, and baby food and formula. No glass, nothing open or damaged, nothing expired and nothing that needs a fridge.

Be the neighbor you think you are.

🎹 Billy Childs Trio with special guests, Smoke, 2751 Broadway at 106th St, Fri through Sun, with dinner shows at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. The pianist closes his residency with Matt Penman and Ari Hoenig, plus trumpeter Michael Rodriguez Friday and saxophonist Steve Wilson Saturday and Sunday. Starts at $25.

🥁 Greg Hutchinson's Kind of Now: The Pulse of Miles Davis, Dizzy's Club, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St, Fri and Sat at 7pm and 9pm. The drummer's Miles Davis program, with Marquis Hill, Gerald Clayton and Robert Hurst. Sold out, but Dizzy's keeps a standby list for sold-out sets.

🎸 Latin American Dances for Guitar, Bloomingdale School of Music, 323 W 108th St, Fri 7pm. Romulo Viana and Andreas Guilherme play Villa-Lobos, Lauro and Piazzolla's History of the Tango. RSVP required. FREE.

✝️ Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum, Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, Sat 7pm. Grete Pedersen conducts the double-choir, double-orchestra Passion on period instruments. $30, or watch the free livestream.

🎻 New York Philharmonic Ensembles, Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, 129 W 67th St, Sun 3pm. Phil players in a chamber afternoon around the corner from Geffen: Shostakovich's Five Pieces, Beethoven's String Trio in C minor and Dvořák's String Quintet No. 2. $45.

🎶 Symphony in Motion, The Dessoff Choirs, Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, 263 W 86th St, Sun 4pm. Choral works by Gregg Smith and Stravinsky get new choreography, plus a Margaret Bonds world premiere. $40, $30 seniors and students.

🎷 A Century of Jazz: Bill Crow and Steve Little, Dizzy's Club, Sun 5pm and 7:30pm. The Jason Yeager/Justin Poindexter Quartet celebrates its new record honoring the two, with both on the bandstand. Covers from $30, plus a $25 minimum.

🎺 Jimmy Heath Big Band Centennial Celebration, Dizzy's Club, Mon 7pm and 9pm. A big band toasts the saxophonist's 100th. Covers from $30, plus a $25 minimum.

🥁 Salsa Meets Jazz: Eddie Palmieri, Dizzy's Club, Tue 7pm. Carlos Henriquez's series honors the late pianist, with Bobby Allende on bongos. It's a tribute; Palmieri isn't on the bill. Covers from $30, plus a $25 minimum.

🎷 Charles McPherson Quintet featuring Terell Stafford, Smoke, from Wed, with dinner shows at 6pm and 8pm. The bebop alto saxophonist, a living line back to Charlie Parker, opens a residency. Starts at $25.

🎤 Janis Siegel: The Art of Vocalese, Dizzy's Club, Wed 7pm and 9pm. The Manhattan Transfer singer celebrates her new album. Covers from $30, plus a $25 minimum.

🎹 Thibaudet Performs Liszt, New York Philharmonic, Wu Tsai Theater, Wed and Thu 7:30pm. Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Liszt's Second Concerto, and Rafael Payare conducts Bruckner's Ninth. About 1 hour 45 minutes. Starts at $92 with fees. There's also a FREE simulcast on the 50-foot Hauser Digital Wall inside Geffen Hall; check the page for the night.

🎹 Jason Marsalis Presents the Rare Works of Ellis Marsalis, Dizzy's Club, Thu and Fri 7pm and 9pm. The vibraphonist plays his father's lesser-heard compositions. Covers from $30, plus a $25 minimum.

🎸 Michelle Branch, Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway at 74th St, Thu 8pm. The early-2000s hitmaker plays the Beacon. Starts at $189.

💃 ALBA Musik: Contemporary Flamenco, David Rubenstein Atrium, 1887 Broadway, Fri Nov 6, 7:30pm. A New York nuevo-flamenco group, free in the Atrium. All ages. FREE.

🎺 Marsalis' Swinging Cities, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Rose Theater, Fri Nov 6 7:30pm (also Sat Nov 7). His Vitoria, Shanghai and Marciac suites, with a pre-concert talk at 6:30pm. Your ticket gets you into that night's 10:45pm Late Night Session at Dizzy's. Tickets from $52.

Before he was ours, he was a TV character. Rodrigo, the free-spirited maestro in Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle, was loosely based on Dudamel.

In 2017, he became the youngest conductor ever to lead the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert. At 35, most of us were still pretending the leftover IKEA screws weren't important.

🅿️ Alternate side is suspended Tuesday only, for Election Day. Meters still run. The next suspension is Wed Nov 11, Veterans Day. (Last week we said the next one was Sunday, Nov 1. Alternate side doesn't run on Sundays. Our mistake.)

🛣️ The Henry Hudson's southbound W 79th St exit closes overnight for about four weeks starting Friday: 10pm to 5am Mon through Fri, and 12:01 to 7am Saturdays. Get off at 95th St and follow the detour. Miss it, Council Member Gale Brewer warns, and you'll exit inside the congestion pricing zone and pay the toll.

🔊 Gas main work at W 83rd St and Central Park West, Sat 8am to 4pm. Brewer's office says it'll be noisy all day. The ghosts have competition.

🏃 Marathon parking bans and closures. No parking Sat and Sun on Central Park West from 60th to 66th and from 74th to 96th, and on 61st through 77th between CPW and Broadway. All three park drives close Sat and Sun, and Central Park South closes Sat 8 to 10:30am. On Sunday:

Final timing is up to the NYPD. Move the car today.

🚧 No parking on W 82nd St, Columbus to CPW, both sides, Mon 7am to Tue 4pm, for water main work, per Brewer's office. Same block as last week, new dates.

"I read this with my husband every week. It's the best!" — Steph W. Steph, that's the most romantic thing anyone's said about a newsletter. A couple that reads together argues about the poll together. Just one question: who gets to scroll?

"The Pooh piece was next level." — J. Thank you, J. Pooh says it was nothing. Eeyore says it won't last.

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