5 Things You Need to Know Today: Electronics Recycling, Alternate Side, Subway Disruptions, Free Cupcakes

1. You need to know if you have to dig out your car. Not yet. Alternate side is suspend tomorrow for MLK day, according to the 311 website, as is garbage pick-up and recycling (like that ever happens anyway).

2. You need to know if your train is running. Brooklyn-bound 2/3 trains are skipping Bergen, Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parkway until 5 a.m. Monday, according to the MTA. For service to these stations, take the 2/3 to Franklin Av and transfer to the Manhattan-bound train. The F and G trains will not run between Jay Street-MetroTech and Church Avenue. A free shuttle bus will replace the train. Finally, the R train is suspended this weekend, but the N is running over the R line between Brooklyn and Manhattan.

3. You need something to do with the kids. The is celebrating the 25th anniversary of two programs, Arty Facts and its Gallery/Studio Program will , including free cupcakes. Also, the today.

4. You need to do something good for the environment. Bring your old computers, monitors, printers, cell phones, televisions, answering machines (remember those?) and other electronic items to Prospect Park for . These don't happen often, so take advantage. The event takes place near the Prospect Park West/Third Street entrance from 10 to 4. 

5. You need a night out. Join actors Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman, and Fiona Shaw of John Gabriel Borkman for at . 6:45 p.m. Price: $15; $7.50, members.