Between Halloween creeping closer, Tommie’s recovery still weighing on my mind, and the final two weeks of the City Hall race tightening up, it feels like the city and my life are running on the same kind of caffeine-fueled chaos. The government shutdown hits Day 21 with no end in sight, the Dodgers and Blue Jays set up a USA-vs-Canada World Series for the ages, and even our Halloween shoot turned into a full-blown comedy — fake fog, flying props, and Tommie laughing so hard we couldn’t finish the take. It’s a week of wild turns, good stories, and a reminder that even in the madness, there’s always something to smile about.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, at least eight pedestrians were injured, one critically, when the driver of a box truck collided with a parked van that hopped a curb in Chelsea, according to authorities.

An infant girl was discovered abandoned on the stairs leading to a New York City subway stop in midtown Manhattan during the busy morning commute.

And Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.