New York Today: Harvest Time

Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times Nature’s bounty at a greenmarket near Columbia University.

As summer makes way for fall (4:44 p.m. on Sunday, if you’re keeping score), the best place to watch the seasons change, or at least the yummiest, may be your local greenmarket.

The autumn produce has arrived, nearly but not quite crowding out the fruits (and vegetables) of summer.

“We really have everything in the market right now,” said Jeanne Hodesh, a spokeswoman for the city’s greenmarkets, which have grown from one small cluster of stands in Union Square in 1976 to 54 across the five boroughs.

“We still have summer sweet corn and peaches and nectarines, but we’re also seeing fall crops like brussels sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli.”

Tons of apples, too.

Such is the bounty that you can buy summer squash at one stand and winter squash at the next.

The only things that are out of season, Ms. Hodesh said, are peas and rhubarb.

Like Dodgers fans used to say, wait till next year.

Here’s what else you need to know for Friday and the weekend:

WEATHER

One last day of sunshine, with a high of 79.

Then gradually clouding over on Saturday, with serious rainfall likely overnight â€" half an inch or more.

Showers lingering into Sunday, then clearing once more. Kind of symmetrical.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Mass Transit: O.K. so far. Click for latest M.T.A. status.

- Roads: No major delays. Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s.

Alternate-side parking is suspended today for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

COMING UP TODAY

- The mayor speaks at a Time magazine summit on higher education.

- A state legislative committee convenes at Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn to hear how the video game industry affects the economy and employment.

- Another chance to square dance in Bryant Park. The Sept. 9 dance drew 760 people, so prepare to meet your neighbor. 5:30 p.m. [Free]

- The Horticultural Society of New York’s annual show of international contemporary botanical art opens in Midtown. Reception at 6 p.m. [Free]

- The New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 features booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from more than 20 countries. Noon to 7 p.m. [Free]

- The 13th Coney Island Film Festival opens with “More Than the Rainbow,” a documentary about a New York street photographer, Matt Weber. 7:30 p.m.

- A “Harmony and Humanity” concert in memory of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed 18-year-old fatally shot by the police, at Greater Faith Temple Church in the Bronx. 8 p.m. [Free]

- Tickets for John Mayer’s Dec. 17 show at Barclays Center go on sale at 9 a.m. [Ticketmaster]

- “Men at Lunch,” a film that tells the story behind the iconic 1932 photo of construction workers sitting on a girder 69 stories above Manhattan, opens at Quad Cinema. [$11]

IN THE NEWS

- Another poll shows Bill de Blasio with a very commanding lead over Joseph J. Lhota. [The New York Times]

- Mr. de Blasio will only attend fund-raisers that guarantee to bring in at least $75,000 for his campaign. [The Daily News]

- The city’s unemployment rate rose slightly in August. [Crain's New York]

- A Hudson Valley winery â€" aptly named Clinton Vineyards â€" has started bottling a ‘Victory White’ wine to encourage Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016. [Time Magazine]

- Bunny rabbits are roaming the streets of Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. [Ditmas Park Corner]

- A Long Island man had 850 snakes living in his garage. His two license plates? ‘SNAKEVAN’ and ‘SSSSNAKE’ [Newsday]

- It may finally be time to stick a fork in the Yankees after their 6-2 loss to Toronto. Mets fall to Giants, 2-1.

THE WEEKEND

Saturday

- Chess-in-the-schools hosts over 1000 chess players in a six-round tournament at the Central Park Bethesda Fountain. [Registration begins at 9 a.m.]

- Choose from 35,000 oysters at the Stone Street Oyster Festival downtown. Noon to 6 p.m.

- Activists dressed in blue rally to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, starting at noon in Battery Park.

- The Haunted Pumpkin Garden opens at the New York Botanical Garden.

Sunday

- The Brooklyn Book Festival begins at 10 a.m. Check the full schedule.

- Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, takes over Times Square. Over 100,000 are expected to attend. 11 a.m. onward. [Free]

- A celebration of music, storytelling and dance takes place at the Bronx Native American Festival, at Pelham Bay Park. Noon to 4 p.m. [Free]

- Fly a kite on the rooftop of the Port Authority Bus Terminal. will be shut down so you can do just that. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. [Free]

Weekend Street Closings

Click for the complete list.

AND FINALLY…

As the summer of 1960 faded, a pompadoured 16-year-old from Queens had a hit song of such profound inanity that East German soldiers used it to torture a prisoner in Billy Wilder’s 1961 comedy “One, Two, Three.”

The boy was Brian Hyland. The song: “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini.”

Soon Mr. Hyland had moved on to ballads.

This week in 1961, his treacly ode to teen devotion “Let Me Belong to You” was at No. 32.

“Make me your slave,” Mr. Hyland coos. “Tie me down, darling. Make me behave.”

The song’s efficacy in extracting military secrets remains untested.

Joseph Burgess contributed reporting.

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