Upper West Side

The new giant balloons for the Nov. 26 centennial march took a test flight Saturday, and Macy's says Popeye, Olive Oyl and Swee'Pea will ride an All-Stars float. Here's the new lineup and the route.

SEED Harlem has 40 students and Urban Assembly Global Commerce 112. Both would close in June. Hearings start Dec. 1 and the Panel for Educational Policy votes Dec. 16.

Polls open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday after 690,526 early check-ins. The Council looks at snow plowing Monday, the Rockefeller Center tree rolls in Saturday, and the forecast turns wet from Thursday.

After more than two years of signs on a dark storefront at West 64th and 65th streets, the grocer says it is designing the store and pulling permits. It would be Wegmans' second Manhattan location, after Astor Place.

The Jacob's Pickles team turned its original space at 509 Amsterdam Ave. into a '70s Western bar with $5 burgers, Frito pie and a 'VcRib.' Eater NY gave it a rave this week.

The Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and Theater District staples are set to change hands Oct. 30. Brooklyn Diner, Paris Bar and the rest of the Fireman group go to a co-bidder, and all are expected to stay open.

Nearly 5,000 young runners opened race week on Sunday. Here is the schedule through Marathon Monday, including free events and the clock change the night before the race.

City Hall and distributor NEON are showing the Harlem Renaissance documentary for free at 1 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Seats go first come, first served, even with an RSVP.

A new show on the Upper West Side traces how punk, disco and hip-hop grew out of a broke, battered city in the mid-1970s. It runs through April 4, 2027; adult tickets are $24, and Friday evenings are pay-as-you-wish.

Thousands of charity riders loop Manhattan from Pier 76 starting at 7:30 a.m. The MTA has detours at the RFK and Henry Hudson bridges and the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel until 1 p.m.

After workers returned to the West 75th Street water tower despite a state order, DEC served a cease-and-desist and put up an alternative roost. The young owls are scattered nearby and still need their parents.

After a soft opening in late September, the husband-and-wife shop has its official opening Friday at 128 W. 72nd St. Musubi run about $6 to $8.

The Italian group's second Upper West Side spot takes over the former Rosa Mexicano space at 61 Columbus Ave. It has two floors, 8,000 square feet and more than 250 seats.

From Jan. 1, eligible affordable projects in the city's 12 lowest-producing community districts skip a City Council vote. Some members are talking about a lawsuit.

The veto-proof vote sends the ban to Mayor Mamdani, who backs it. The city must deliver a worker transition plan by April 1, 2027; TWU Local 100 says it will challenge the law in court.