🌱NYC Early Voting Starts Today +$4B To Bring Electric Heat To Schools

Happy Saturday, New York City!

• 🗳 Today is the first day of early voting.
• ⚡️ Some NYC public schools are transitioning to electric heating.
• 🎃 There's lots of fun events around the city this Halloween weekend.

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Plenty of sunshine. High: 60 Low: 45.

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

1. Early voting starts today in New York City ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections, with polling locations open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registered New Yorkers will vote for governor, lieutenant governor, state comptroller, attorney general, U.S. senator, as well as local races. (New York City Patch)
   • Check out Patch's local voting guides for Brooklyn, Queens, Astoria & Long Island City and the Manhattan neighborhoods Harlem, Inwood/Washington Heights, Upper West Side and Upper East Side.
2. Mayor Eric Adams committed to transitioning 100 public schools in neighborhoods with high asthma rates to electrical heating by 2030, also stating that all new schools will be electric. The new “Leading the Charge” initiative comes with a $4 billion investment. (New York City Patch)
3. Workers at a Trader Joe's in Williamsburg voted against unionizing. It would have been the first unionized store out of the company's 14 New York City locations. Union organizers were advocating for higher pay and more sick leave. (Gothamist)
4. Migrants seeking information have been told to wait multiple months to receive appointments at New York City's Asylum Seeker Resource Center in Hell's Kitchen. Catholic Charities was awarded $4.5 million to operate the center. Over 21,000 asylum seekers have arrived in NYC since the spring. (Gothamist)
5. After Superstorm Sandy struck New York City 10 years ago, a network of thousands of volunteers, calling itself Occupy Sandy because of the organizer's roots in the Occupy Wall Street movement, mobilized across the five boroughs to provide food, clothes and essential supplies to New Yorkers in need. The storm caused an estimated $19 billion in damage and took at least 43 lives. (THE CITY)

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This weekend in New York City:

• Saturday: The Big'Y'Apple 3K: Pier 25 in Manhattan (11 a.m.)
• Saturday: Doggone Halloween Parade — Crown Heights (11 a.m.)
• Saturday: Dog Run 142 Howl-O-Ween Party: 142nd Street and Riverside Drive (12 p.m.)
• Sunday: Hester Street Fair Halloween Edition: Pier 17 in Manhattan (11 a.m.)
• Greg's Great Pumpkin Patch — Domino Park (all weekend)

From my notebook:

• Meet the 25-year-old New Yorker who is living in a self-renovated ambulance. (New York Post)
• A massive new exhibition "Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience" opened yesterday in New York City, featuring high-resolution digital projections. (WABC-TV)
• Workers at VITAL, a 'fan favorite' rock climbing gym with a massive location in Williamsburg, are organizing to unionize. (Hell Gate)
• In the northern corner of Central Park, a flotilla of pumpkins floated by to the amazement of hundreds of onlookers on Thursday. (NBC New York)
• Calling all Upper Manhattan residents — submissions are now open for the 2023 Inwood Film Festival. (New York City Patch)

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Events:

• Halloween Costume Party at Marble Collegiate Church (October 29)
• KRASH Halloween Saturday Sunset Avalon Yacht Party Cruise 2022 (October 29)
• NYC Halloween Pub Crawl 2022 only $15 (October 29)
• Loft 51 Copacabana NYC Halloween party 2022 (October 29)
• The Dean NYC Halloween party 2022 only $15 (October 29)
• Tribeca Social NYC Halloween party 2022 only $15 (October 29)
• Mozart at the Salzburg Cathedral (October 29)
• Oumou Sangaré Makes Her Apollo Debut Sat, Oct 29! (October 29)
• Copaween Masquerade Ball Halloween Live Entertainment party (October 29)
• Taj Lounge Halloween Saturday Night General Admission 2022 (October 29)
• District Sporting Lounge Halloween Party 2022 (October 29)
• Lost in Paradise Queens Rooftop Saturday Halloween Openbar Party 2022 (October 29)
• Musica Club NYC Halloween Saturday Night party 2022 (October 29)
• The Orchard Room Saturday night Halloween party General Admission 2022 (October 29)
• Selina Rooftop NYC Halloween Party 2022 (October 29)
• LeGrande Lounge Halloween party 2022 General Admission (October 29)
• Jewel Thief Halloween Saturday party General Admission 2022 (October 29)
• Daintree Rooftop Halloween Saturday party General Admission 2022 (October 29)
• Spritz Nomad Halloween party General Admission 2022 (October 29)
• The Bowery Rooftop Halloween Saturday party 2022 General Admission (October 29)
• St. Cloud Rooftop Bar, Times Square Knickerbocker Hotel Halloween Party (October 29)
• Blue Midtown NYC Halloween Saturday Night General Admission 2022 (October 29)
• The DL Halloween Saturday Night General Admission 2022 (October 29)
• Hip Hop vs Reggae® NYC Halloween Saturday Midnight Jewel Yacht 2022 (October 29)
• The High Line Hotel's Annual Dog Costume Parade Returns to Chelsea (October 30)
• 1ST OPEN HOUSE! Detached Center Hall In The Perfect Forest Hills Gardens Location (October 30)
• Regina Opera's 'Gotta Sing' Concert (October 30)
• NYC Freaknight EDM Techno House Halloween Sunday Sunset Jewel Yacht Party (October 30)
• Bhagavad Gita Lecture Series Oct. 27 - 30 (October 30)
• To Life — Again! Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish Returns (October 30)
• Carnaval Halloween Party at Copacabana Loft 2022 (October 30)
• Bohemia Nightclub Halloween with Nora Van Elken live at Coda Williamsburg (October 30)
• The Funnies NYC @ Stand Up NY @ 8 p.m. @ Free Show (October 30)
• The Evil Queen's Drag Brunch : New York City / Brooklyn (October 31)
• Carnegie Hill Neighbors Annual Spooktacular (October 31)
• Latin Vibes Halloween Costume Yacht Cruise at Cabana Yacht 2022 (October 31)
• Art is Life: Jerry Saltz in Conversation with Roberta Smith (October 31)
• Hotel Chantelle Halloween Night General Admission party 2022 (October 31)
• Slate NYC Halloween Party 2022 (October 31)
• Move Better with HSS Yoga | New classes start Nov. 1! (November 1)
• Introduction to Judaism Class (November 2)
• WEBINAR: Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period: How to Prepare and Update your Coverage Selections (November 2)
• Institutional Insights — Market outlook, investment ideas and wealth planning strategies (November 3)
• The thing about things (November 4)
• Italian Cooking Class & Dinner with Tiramisu Finale (November 5)
• Feast of All Saints: Service of Remembrance featuring Fauré Requiem (November 6)
• Success Academy Bronx 1 In-Person School Tour (November 8)
• Success Academy Bronx 2 In-Person School Tour (November 11)
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Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Saturday. See you all tomorrow morning for another update!

— Dashiell Allen

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