Sunset Park

Democrat Larry He unseated Sen. Steve Chan. Assembly challenger Joyce Xiaoqiong Xie leads Rep. Lester Chang by about 861 votes with 99% of scanners in; AP had not called AD-49 as of City & State's tally.

Friday evening: Menin called a joint oversight hearing on residential fires and lithium-ion batteries. Cause and victim names still unreleased; DOB had closed conversion complaints after failed entries.

The 2.1-mile redesign under the Gowanus Expressway, from 62nd Street to 20th Street, starts next year. Seventeen people have been killed on the corridor in a decade.

Saturday brings the first day of early voting, the last day to register, a free Diwali festival on Broadway and a Sixth Avenue street fair. Expect no 4 train in the South Bronx, no J between Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, and a split G.