New York City this morning: October 31

Free marching requires a costume; the lineup opens at Canal Street at 6:30 p.m. on October 31.

The Village Halloween Parade starts at 7 p.m. on October 31, bringing its Body and Soul theme to Greenwich Village. Participants can join the costumed procession at Canal Street and Sixth Avenue between 6:30 and 9 p.m.

Spectators can watch for free along the public parade route, which runs north from King Street to West 15th Street. The traffic closure area extends farther: Sixth Avenue between Spring Street and West 18th Street is on the closure list, along with formation and dispersal streets.

Property managers will unlock the new bins by card or app, while automated trucks handle collection.

Brooklyn Community District 2 is getting more than 700 Empire Bins after the first residential containers were installed in Brooklyn Heights on October 29. The rollout covers neighborhoods from Boerum Hill and Downtown Brooklyn to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

Buildings with more than 30 apartments must use the on-street containers; properties with 10 to 30 units can participate by opting in. Managers will open them with a key card or smartphone app, and sanitation crews will empty them using automated side-loading trucks.

The current structure would need removal, and the project has no announced completion date.

A 14-story mixed-use building is proposed at 161-05 Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, with 173 apartments and commercial space. The application describes a structure 144 feet tall.

Sandi Silk of Mural Real Estate Partners submitted the building applications, which name Curtis+Ginsberg Architects as architect of record. The proposal does not come with an announced completion date, and demolition permits for the existing structure had not yet been filed.

Housing is already allowed under the site's zoning; the application focuses on adding commercial uses.

A supermarket and waterfront cafe are part of a zoning application for Fordham Landing South, south of the University Heights Bridge. The requested C2-4 overlay would permit commercial uses in an area zoned R7-2.

The development team presented the proposal at a Bronx Community Board 7 public hearing. Plans include community space and an entrance to the nearby Metro-North station, while construction has no confirmed start date.

The two-week count covers September 30 through October 13 and spans several Mid-Island neighborhoods.

Seventy-five of Staten Island's 210 animal-related 311 complaints came from ZIP code 10314 during a recent two-week review, a share of 35.7%. The area includes Bulls Head, New Springville, Westerleigh and Willowbrook, among other neighborhoods.

The period analyzed ran from September 30 through October 13. Within 10314, the categories included 14 dead-animal complaints, 13 concerning unsanitary private property and 10 rodent complaints.