Five Things You Need to Know:

1. You need to see inside the new World Trade Center tower. Patch got a sneak peek inside the rising structure. Check back later in the day for photos from hundreds of feet above the soon-to-be unveiled 9/11 Memorial. 

2. You need to some Carribean culture. Head to BAM tonight for the screening of "Below the Brain," a documentrary about the 2010 West Indian Amercian Day Caribbean Parade, followed by a Q&A with the directors.

3. You need to see how . Irene left the park loaded with debris, snapped branches and more than 100 fallen trees in her wake.

4. You need to eat with beats. Velvet Peach Cafe on Flatbush Avenue is holding its weekly . Swing by anytime from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

5. You need to submit your own "thing." Got some great Thursday plans? Let everyone know what we should check out today.