Morning Brief: October 29

The MTA’s new five-year capital budget plan is less extensive than the city originally hoped, but still includes funding for several major improvement projects. Originally a $29 billion plan, the MTA recently tacked on a handful of new projects, including a connection between the Livonia Avenue L and Junius Street 3 stations, improvement of a desolate block in Brownsville, and a $5 million study of the century-old idea of running a line down Utica Ave.

NEED TO KNOW

China to End One-Child Policy [BBC]

Paul Ryan Set to Take Over as Speaker, Hoping to Manage the Chaos [New York Times]

What We Learned From the Third GOP Debate [NBC]

NYC Marathon 2015: Route Details [silive.com]

Mets Disarmed by Kansas City Batters [Newsday]

WEATHER
71 degrees and partly cloudy [Full Forecast]

SPORTS

Yesterday
The Mets fell to the Royals 1 to 7 in Game 2 of the World Series

Tonight
A night off for Major League Baseball. They resume for Game 3 on Friday

ON STAGE TONIGHT

WFUV Presents: The Mavericks @ The Space At Westbury

WFUV Presents: Keller Williams @ The Boulton Center for the Arts

Honoring the King: A tribute to BB King @ Paramount Hudson Valley Theater

Infamous Stringdusters @ Brooklyn Bowl

Youth Lagoon @ Webster Hall

Jesse Cook @ New York Society for Ethical Culture

Joan Armatrading @ South Orange Performing Arts Center

The Revivalists @ The Wonder Bar

Simon Townshend @ Daryl’s House

TODAY IN HISTORY
Today in 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.