PS 234 PARENTS RAISE FUNDS FOR TEACHER
The PS 234 community is raising funds for kindergarten teacher Aislinn Buckley, whose husband, Jared, passed away recently, leaving behind Aislinn and their 18-month-old daughter, Saorise Grace. So far folks have raised $84,000 with a goal of $90,000 on GoFundMe to help ease some of the financial burden for Aislinn. “Our hope is to provide support not just in these immediate days, but in the months and years ahead as Aislinn raises their daughter and begins to build a life around this unimaginable loss,” organizers said. Find the page here.

LAST WEEKEND AT THE LILAC ON PIER 25
The Lilac, the lightship docked on Pier 25, will be open for the last weekend of the season from 2 to 6p on Saturday and Sunday, October 17 & 18. There will be tours of the ship, a coloring station for kids, and a musical performance by Torge Goderstad and friends at 4:30p on Sunday. One of the engine room gongs even makes a star appearance.

EVENT VENUE COMING TO 3 WORLD TRADE CENTER
The uptown event venue Glasshouses has signed a long-term lease at 3 World Trade Center for a new venue: Glasshouse Downtown. There will be two full floors at the bottom of the tower with space for up to 1500 guests. The schedule now is to open in 2028.

NEW EXHIBIT AT THE 9/11 MUSEUM
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum has a new exhibit titled “Responding in Ink: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and 9/11,” exploring how comic books and graphic novel creators responded to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and their aftermath. The exhibition features approximately 50 works spanning from the early 1970s through the two decades following September 11, tracing how artists responded from the immediate aftermath to later comics and graphic novels that sought to explain, explore and remember 9/11 as a historical event. Through February 28. More info here.