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Weekend Travel Alert

As if the Halloween parade and the marathon weren't enough, the MTA will also  be complicating your weekend travel plans. Just about every train line will be disrupted, including the dreaded F. Here's what the MTA advises:

179 St-bound trains run on the from Jay to West 4 Sts, 12:01 AM Sat to 5 AM Mon, Oct 31 – Nov 2

For service to York St, East Broadway, Delancey St, 2 Av, and Broadway-Lafayette St, take the to West 4 St and transfer to a Coney Island-bound .

For service from York St, East Broadway, Delancey St and 2 Av, take a Coney Island-bound to Jay St and transfer to a 179 St-bound .

For service from Broadway-Lafayette St, take the to West 4 St and transfer to the .


More Halloween Fun: Abaddon NYC

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202 Rivington Street (btwn Pitt and Ridge Sts.)
RSVP to artlesnyc@gmail.com is mandatory
Advance Tickets for Abaddon suggested @: www.abaddonnyc.com
On Friday night we will let people in @ the door as capacity permits.
No one turned away for lack of money.
Please give what you can to keep independent, underground arts alive on the Lower East Side
Only assholes and douchebags turned away!

Come celebrate the Pagan High Holiday with your hosts the Pirates of the L.E.S., for one final art.les.nyc event in a blockbuster 2009 season.

ART.LES.NYC Studios, the Lower East Side's only outdoor (tarp-protected) art studio and gallery, throws open the portals to ABADDON, our annual two-level Hellish Haunted Halloween spectacular.

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Eric Ripert “Unleashed” at Whole Foods/Bowery Tonight

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This evening at the Whole Foods on the Bowery, Eric Ripert, one of New York's culinary stars, will talk about his new TV series "Avec Eric" and sign copies of his book, "On the Line."  There will be a screening of the show and a discussion with executive producer Justin Barocas about the inspiration for the series, the behind the scenes details of their adventures and all the elements that went into production. You can also enter to win a dinner for two at Le Bernadin, Ripert's Midtown restaurant. Seating begins at 530. The event, "Avec Eric Unleashed," starts at 630.

Paterson Honored at Chinatown YMCA Gala

Governor David Paterson came to the Lower East Side last night, addressing 300 supporters of the Chinatown YMCA, at their 35th annual gala dinner. Paterson, along with YMCA executive Rena McGreevy and Tracey Chang, Miss New York 2009, were the night's honorees. The festivities, attended by many of New York's movers and shakers, including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, were held at the Capitale event space on the Bowery. 

Paterson, who spent the day in the city consulting with legislative leaders about New York's budget crisis, praised the Chinatown YMCA for its vital role in helping New Yorkers weather tough economic times.

Paterson also addressed the ballooning budget deficit directly, saying the sacrifices he's asking New Yorkers to make now, will help the state emerge from the recession. 

Halloween in the Hood

if you haven't made Halloween plans, no fear! There's plenty happening on the Lower East Side this weekend…

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The most creative haunted house in the neighborhood (poosibly in the whole city) is Steampunk at the Abrons Arts Center. The tour through their century-old playhouse includes "clockwork
spiders, legions of half-man/half-machine drones, and mechanized
monsters and misfits manifest in eerie parlors, laboratories, and
boiler rooms."
  Conceived and created by
BESSIE Award-winner Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects, in collaboration with Jesse Green, Liz
Sargent, Barry Weil, Kryssy Wright, and the Abrons’ Urban Youth
Theater
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Student tickets sold at the door only. You can only get in if you're at least 8 years old. Click here for more information.

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The Theater for the New City has something for everyone. There will be free entertainment outside on 10th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues beginning tomorrow at 430pm. At 730, the indoor party begins. There will be musical performances from La Cumbiamba and the Hot Lavender Swing Band, an 18-piece gay
orchestra. There's also a Witches’ Cauldron, a buffet of Halloween-themed dishes from 100 neighborhood restaurants. But that's not all: burlesque and cabaret acts and a midnight costume party. More information here.

At the Sunshine Cinema, both tonight and tomorrow, it's Nightmare on Elm Street 3 – at midnight. 

At the Hotel on Rivington, it's the Heaven & Hell Party. The Penthouse is Heaven and the Lobby is Hell. 107 Rivington Street, 212-475-2600; 9pm Friday, Free.

Thompson Closing In?, Charter Schools Lagging Behind, Urs Fischer Reviewed

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Friday news links

Heading into the last weekend before the city's mayoral election, an internal Thompson campaign poll shows he's narrowing the gap with Mike Bloomberg. But the Times says — not so fast!

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