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Yesterday morning, a dump truck and Toyota Camry going west on Atlantic Avenue had a deadly accident. The truck, which was filled with debris, jackknifed and overturned, crushing the Camry and its two passengers.

Patrick Cullina is the VP of Horticulture and Facilities at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and New York's go-to guy for cherry trees (there are over 200 trees and 42 species at BBG alone!). Anita Jacobs is responsible for all of the programs that go along with the garden, speaking of which...

THEATER: The esteemed Classical Theatre of Harlem is reviving Peter Weiss’s masterpiece Marat/Sade. The dizzying action takes place in an asylum in France, where the infamous Marquis de Sade is sequestered in 1808. To pass the time, he directs a play about the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat during the revolution. His asylum casting pool yields up some magnificent performances, though the production is almost squelched by the hospital administrator, a tool of Napoleon’s post-revolutionary regime. In the right hands, which CTH certainly has, the whole production is a multi-layered feast of subversion. - John Del Signore

If every building in New York City was to somehow be wiped off the face of the earth, and I had the power to pick only one to remain standing, I would choose Tom’s Diner in a heartbeat. Though I think of the Chrysler Building like a part of my own body, I would have to let it go. I get chills every time I catch a glimpse of Yankee Stadium, but I would bid it a premature farewell. Tom’s Diner, on Washington Avenue and Sterling Place in Prospect Heights, has taken hold of my soul like no other place in New York.

ART: The 10th annual Tribeca art walk is this weekend. Toast, the Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour, is a free, self-guided tour of approximately 100 artists' studios throughout Tribeca. Talk to the artists in their own spaces, and of course - check out their art while you're at it.

Okay, this is some crazy, upsetting stuff: A man stabbed a 10 month-old baby while she was being pushed in her stroller last night. Isabelle Avins was out and about with her nanny at West 171st Street and Fort Washington Avenue when Bernard Derr, described by police as "mentally disturbed," plunged a knife into her stomach and tried to take the gold chain from her neck. The police say Derr "nearly disemboweled" Avins and then fled the scene, with other passers-by trying to pursue him; he was arrested at his group home on Fort Washington Avenue and a knife was found in an alley nearby. Avins is in critical but stable condition at Columbia Presbyterian; her father is grateful to the nanny who hailed a livery cab and took the baby to the hospital as well as the police and neighbors.

beat.So while the humble street fair will never be abandoned by Gothamist, we can't help but make the more upscale Chile Pepper Fiesta part of our annual autumn ritual.Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue, (718) 623-7200