🌱 New Subway Safety Plan + New York Governor's Debate Announced

Happy Monday, New York City! Here's all the news you need to know:

• 🚃 Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul have a new subway safety plan.
• 🦠 The CDC is considering using an oral polio vaccine in response to the NYC-area outbreak.
• 🐕 Dressed-up dogs get into the Halloween spirit at Tompkins Square Park.

But first, today's weather:

A little rain, mainly early. High: 65 Low: 58.

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Here are the top five stories today in New York City:

1. Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul announced a plan over the weekend to bring additional police officers to up to 300 subway stations at a time during peak hours, in a latest attempt to deter crime on public transit and alleviate straphangers' "perception" of disorder and chaos. (AMNY)
2. Hochul will debate her GOP opponent Rep. Lee Zeldin on Tuesday night for the first and likely only time, just two weeks before the general elections. Hochul's lead over Zeldin in the polls has been shrinking to as little as 4 percent. (Gothamist)
3. For the first time in 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control is considering deploying an oral polio vaccine in response to the current outbreak in the New York City area. The oral vaccine has been proven effective at stopping transmission, unlike the unactivated vaccine currently being used. (NBC New York)
4. Bronx residents are raising funds to take legal action against a controversial rezoning in Throggs Neck that would include over 300 apartment units. Neighbors are concerned the development will change the fabric of their community and could lead to future construction projects in the area. (Subscription/New York Daily News)
5. A public school in Staten Island will be one of the first in the city participating in a pilot program to lock its front doors, in a bid to improve school safety and following parents' advocacy. (SILive.com)

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Today in New York City:

• The Buoniconti Fund 37th Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner (5:30 p.m.)
• The Waiting - Days of The Dead Festival - Kraine Theater (7 p.m.)
• Citizen by CNN & 92NY: The Midterm Election (7 p.m.)
• The 2022 Alice Awards - 10th Anniversary - The Strand (7 p.m.)
• Water Line NY: NYC Stand Up Show @ The Comedy Shop in Manhattan's West Village (8 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• A woman was attacked for a second time on Friday morning by the same man who killed her beloved dog Moose in Prospect Park, in what she said was an NYPD-directed bid to bring him to justice. (New York City Patch)
• An inmate at Rikers Island took his own life on Saturday morning, bringing the total number of individuals to have died in NYC Department of Corrections custody this year to 17, surpassing last year's total of 16. (AMNY)

From my notebook:

• Detainees on Rikers Island say that brown water spewing from faucets and shower heads has led them to develop rashes and stomach troubles. They and their relatives have filed at least two dozen complaints with 311, but say nothing has been done. (New York Daily News)
• Central Park's iconic Wollman Rink is now open for the winter season–and the Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park is opening on Friday. (NBC New York)
• Festive dogs dressed up as invasive spotted lanternflies, train conductors, a bodega cat and more, at the 2022 Tompkins Square Park Halloween dog festival. (Gothamist)
• A Brooklyn street was renamed Patrolman Arthur Loewe Way after a cop who was killed in the line of duty 100 years ago while "defending his Bay Ridge neighborhood from a gang of armed thieves." (New York Post)

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