Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance):

 The 10th Precinct Community Council / Pick of the Week  / Free Programming from HYHK (Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance) / Music, Art, and More at Verdi Cannabis / The Longest Table

The 10th Precinct Community Council: Wednesday, September 24, 7pm a the 10th Precinct (230 W. 20th St. btw. 7th & 8th Aves.) | Having aged out of its annual June through August summer hiatus, this citizen-run Council goes back to meeting monthly–in most cases, on the last Wednesday of the month. Council President Larry O’Neill hosts the event, which typically sees 10th Precinct Commanding Officer Captain Alexander R. Brathwaite on hand to discuss the latest crime statistics, trends, and enforcement efforts. O’Neill then moderates a Q&A session in which Brathwaite responds to attendee questions regarding local matters of concern (attending Police Officers and detectives are also apt to comment). Electeds and City representatives are often in attendance, and usually amenable to taking questions from the neighborhood residents, business owners, and other stakeholders who typify the turnout. Expected concerns from attendees: Since the Council last met in late May, did the 10th get any new personnel (very new, as in Police Academy grads)? How successful have newly formed Quality of Life Teams or “Q-Teams” been in their mandate to address complaints impacting quality of life concerns in the neighborhood–and are they an improvement on the now-defunct Build the Block program? Hey, wait. Those are our expected concerns. Feel free to bring a few of your own. We’ll get you started: Bike scofflaws… Note: Follow the Community Council on Facebook by clicking here.

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Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park (524 W, 24th St.) from HYHK (The Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance) | HYHK offers fun programming for all ages in Bella Abzug Park (524 W. 34th St.). Among the events–all of them free and open to the public–are a series of yoga classes from Bien Good Well (Mondays and Wednesdays at 6pm,  Saturdays at 10:30am). To register for a class, click here. For the kids, head to the playground at Bella Abzug Park on Tuesday mornings through October, for acoustic concerts with Mike Messer Music. To access the HYHK Alliance events calendar, click here.

Events at Verdi Cannabis (158 W. 23rd St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) | Legal cannabis distributor Verdi Cannabis offers free arts programming via gallery-style displays of artwork on their walls, and a live Thursday night music series called The Green Room. “The goal is to always have something fun, interesting, and unique happening here at Verdi,” says Assistant GM and Events Coordinator Kenny Cunningham (featured in this Q&A segment). To keep up with what else is up with Verdi, click here to visit their website. To visit the EVENTS page of their website, click here. 

The Longest Table: Sunday October 5, 12pm-2pm on West 21st St. (btw. 9th/10th Aves.) | Sharing a meal with old friends–or new ones–is the simple, lasting appeal of this recently established annual tradition that takes the premise of the potluck dinner and widens it out to fill the length of an entire crosstown block. For more information, visit www.longesttablecommunity.org. If you’d like to volunteer or have questions, email longesttablecommunity.org.

—Compiled by Scott Stiffler

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