🗽 Learn about the city's Food programs

Emergency Food Assistance Program: Get emergency food now

🖥️ More info:

📎 NYC.gov — October 1

Today's #NYC historic location: Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House — Cass Gilbert designed Customhouse for New York Harbor; now part of the Smithsonian Institution

📎 Wikipedia — October 1

Did you know? The most 311 complaints yesterday were about Illegal Parking 😖 but there was only 1 Illegal Dumping complaint 🤝

If you ever have a problem, you can contact 311 online and check a report's status at

📎 NYC.gov — October 1

Here's one of NYC's 683,788 street trees: An American Elm in Morris Heights, The Bronx. 🌳

Visit Featherbed Lane and say hello! 👋

📎 A Great Big City — October 1

11 years ago in New York history: 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters are arrested after trying to cross the Brooklyn Bridge by walking on the roadway 🚓 Learn more:

📎 A Great Big City — October 1

3 Hurt in Shooting Outside New York High School Football Game

📎 NBC New York — October 1

United Airlines temporarily suspending flights at JFK Airport

📎 CBS News — October 1

Top Stories from Flatbush, Georgetown, and Stapleton #NYC

📎 A Great Big City — October 1

Park of the Day: Do you know Bill Brown Playground in Brooklyn? ⛲ It's a large neighborhood park founded in 1931 (91 years ago)

Details:

📎 A Great Big City — October 1

23 years ago in New York history: Area code 347 becomes active in NYC, adding to the area covered by 718 in the outer boroughs 🗽 Read more:

📎 A Great Big City — October 1

Vandals spray New York's Russian Consulate with red paint after Russia moves to annex 4 Ukraine regions

📎 CBS News — October 1

Brooklyn subway feud ends in fatal stabbing; suspect flees L train in East New York

📎 NY Daily News — October 1

Learn about New York: You can volunteer to be a caretaker of your local "rain garden", which are flowerbeds along the sidewalk that soak up rain water before it reaches the sewer #NYC #DYK

📎 A Great Big City — October 1

Mayor Adams: $225 million in taxi medallion debt erased

📎 CBS News — October 1

102 years ago on this day: Two young women, Beverly Bayard and Lorline Davis, complete a cross-country walk from San Francisco to New York that took four and a half months — Full story:

📎 A Great Big City — October 1

Upcoming Events:

Today: Ragamuffin Parade

Tomorrow: Atlantic Antic street festival
Tomorrow: Pulaski Day Parade
Tuesday: Yom Kippur (begins at sundown) ✡️

190 Days Away: POW Recognition Day

📎 A Great Big City — October 1

📖 Weather Almanac 📖

October 1 in #NYC history

Today: 60°F
Record High: 88°F in 1927
Record Low: 36°F in 1947

📎 A Great Big City — October 1

Relief for taxi drivers: “Now I get my life back”

📎 PIX11 — October 1

✨🔮✨ I checked the Outdoor Activity Forecast and now we can be prepared: The weather will be poor for outdoor activity 🚴 😔

📎 AccuWeather — October 1

Suspect in ‘Barbaric' EMS Veteran Slaying Had Prior Connection to Queens Stationhouse

📎 NBC New York — October 1