New York Today: Small-Screen City

Michael Nagle for The New York Times On a clear night, you can see Brooklyn from Hollywood.

Time was when the Brooklyn of television shows was a pretty Bensonhurst kind of place. That was where Ralph Kramden and the rest of the Honeymooners held court.

Today, the slice of Brooklyn portrayed on the small screen looks a lot like the Brooklyn that has grabbed the real-life cultural spotlight: the Greenpoint of “Girls,” the Williamsburg of “2 Broke Girls” and the Park Slope to which the jailed yuppie protagonist of “Orange Is the New Black” yearns to return.

“Brooklyn used to be kind of working class, or the place where the police had to deal with criminals and drug dealers,” Alessandra Stanley, a television critic for The New York Times, told us. “Now it’s young people being sophisticated.”

Tonight, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” a police comedy starring Andy Samberg that premiered on Fox last week, returns for Week 2.

“’Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ tries to have it both ways,” Ms. Stanley said. “It’s a cop show with a precinct in Brooklyn, but the sensibility is more of a young-person hipster’s. It’s a hybrid.”

Here’s what else you need to know for Tuesday.

WEATHER

After the coldest night in the city (49 in Central Park) since mittens were put away, it will be sunny and cool today with a high of 71.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

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

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

Alternate-side parking is in effect today and tomorrow.

COMING UP TODAY

- The Democratic candidates for public advocate, Letitia James and Daniel L. Squadron, debate at 7 p.m. on NY1, ahead of their Oct. 1 runoff.

- Joseph J. Lhota tours businesses in Flushing, speaks at a forum on minority-owned businesses and serves dinner at the Bowery Mission.

- Bill de Blasio will be on WPIX11 at 7:30 a.m. Maybe he’ll talk about his youthful support for Sandinistas, which Mr. Lhota criticized on Monday.

- President Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly.

- A celebration on a pier on West 44th Street marks the 100th birthday of Hellmann’s mayonnaise. Mario Batali will be there.

- Today could be your day to learn to juggle: classes in Bryant Park from noon to 1 p.m. and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. [Free]

- Listen to Haitian poetry (and eat Haitian food) at Kreyol Corner Poetry Night at La Caye restaurant opposite from the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 8 to 10 p.m.

- For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.

IN THE NEWS

- President Obama endorsed Mr. de Blasio for mayor. [New York Times]

- To cut down on texting while driving, new New York State highway signs will direct drivers to “text stops,” also know as rest areas. [Associated Press]

- Nicholas Brooks, son of the man who wrote “You Light Up My Life,” was sentenced to 25 years to life for strangling his girlfriend. [New York Times]

- The police want you to upgrade your iPhone to iOS 7. [Atlantic Cities]

- The New York branch of Toro, a Barcelona-style tapas spot that’s made it big in Boston, opened in West Chelsea last night. [Eater]

- About 100,000 baby oysters were relocated to the Bronx River over the weekend to help clean it up. [New York Times]

- Drivers may not be thrilled that the United Nations General Assembly is in town, but strippers are pretty psyched. [WPIX11 News]

- The Mets lost to the Reds, 3-2 in 10 innings.

AND FINALLY…

The Yankees might be all but eliminated from wild-card contention, but playoff fever is alive and well on Ticketmaster.

There, you can now buy seats in the Legends Suite for the Yanks’ American League Championship Series home opener for a mere $838.

If the Yankees somehow fail to make it that far â€" BaseballProspectus.com puts their odds of even making the playoffs at 0.4 percent â€" you can get a full refund, a Ticketmaster saleswoman said.

You can even keep the ticket as a souvenir.

Fantasy baseball, indeed.

Joseph Burgess and Kenneth Paul contributed reporting.

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