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5 Things You Need to Know Today: Winter Walk, W.E.B. Du Bois Talk, Alternate Side, Subway Changes, More

Prospect Heights events and information you won't want to miss.

1. You need to know if you have to dig out your car and if the 2/3 is stopping here. Bad news on both counts. Alternate side is back in effect Moday, according to the 311 website, and Brooklyn-bound 2/3 trains are skipping Bergen, Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parkway until 5 a.m. Monday, according to the MTA.

2. You need to get outside. How about a at the ? The free tour starts at 1 p.m. in front of the garden's Visitor Center.

3. You need theater. Today is your last day to see at . Henrik Ibsen’s late-19th century play about a formerly wealthy banker whose embezzlement schemes landed him in prison and blackened the family name. Stars Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw and Lindsay Duncan. The final performance takes place at 3 p.m. today.

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4. You need to use your brain. Head to the for and his continuing importance. 1:30 p.m. . Free.

5. You need music. Head to (or stay at) the Central Library at 4 p.m. for a concert by , a string quartet that fuses Latin, classical, jazz and improvisational forms. 4 p.m. Free.

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