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If you know anyone who might like this newsletter, send it to them. If this was sent to you by someone else, subscribe here — it's free!  Dear New Yorkers, Superintendent Will Morales worked his way up from doorman to handyman in an Upper East Side co-op building before securing a coveted position as a live-in super at a co-op in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park.  He takes pride in his daily routines: polishing the windows and floors, greeting residents each day.  But his patience has been tested since the Department of Sanitation pushed back the earliest time trash bags may be placed on the curb for pickup to 8 p.m beginning on April Fool’s Day of this year. For as long as anyone can remember, 4 p.m. had been the time building staff started hauling out bags. Taking out the trash for his 70-unit building is a three-hour affair, meaning the later set-out time tacks extra hours onto his shifts, three days a week. “I’m working an extra nine hours a week. I’m working an extra whole day,” he said. Morales’ frustrations are not unique. Beginning in October, a group of building superintendents called NYC Building Supers, not affiliated with any union, are planning a series of escalating protests to restore the old 4 p.m. trash setout time.  Dominick Romeo, 46, a third-generation super who took over his father’s buildings at age 16, and currently manages a building in Chelsea, is the ringleader behind the efforts.   “Plenty of supers [are] worked to death and walked all over,” he said. “Now we don’t have a life.” Because rats are nocturnal, experts say that simply setting back the hours of trash setout is unlikely to accomplish much compared to things like putting trash into shared and closed containers — the subject of a current year-long waste pilot program — and a new requirement for food-related businesses to put their trash in rodent-proof containers.  “Rats don’t carry a watch on them and they’re not gonna move to Jersey,” Romeo said. Read more here. In other news: You Read It Here First: Migrants Get a Shorter Clock for Shelter New York City is now allowing adult migrants just 30 days in city shelters before they have to move out and re-apply for a new placement, down from the 60-day clock the city set in July for migrants already in its care, according to new guidance City Hall put out on Friday afternoon.  The move came days after THE CITY first reported the administration’s intent to shorten the clocks for adults, and that it was also considering a 60-day clock for families with children. Though the new guidance still does not apply to migrant families — who make up most of the around 60,000 migrants in shelters here.  — Gwynne Hogan Some other items of note: Family members of Elaina Boone of the South Bronx rallied along with advocates outside of the BronxCare Hospital Saturday afternoon. They stood in the chilly rain to protest what they said was their loved one’s needless death weeks after an emergency cesarean section. Black women in New York City are nine times more likely to die as a result of childbirth. Boone’s loved ones say she shouldn’t have become part of that terrible statistic. The head of New York City Transit is concerned that the collapse of plans to speed bus service along a key Bronx corridor could spell trouble for similar efforts across the city: “Fordham Road, those 85,000 bus customers — that’s more bus customers than you have in St. Louis or Cleveland,” Richard Davey said. “This is not just some meaningless area, it’s a big deal.” City Hall spiked plans to create bus-only lanes along Fordham Road on Friday, opting instead to repaint existing bus lanes on the notoriously slow east-west corridor. A Department of Transportation spokesperson said that the plans could be revisited next year. When Mayor Eric Adams pushes for more money to fix New York City’s aging public housing, he cites a cost estimate NYCHA announced in July that it needed to fully rehabilitate 161,400 aging apartments: $78.3 billion. That comes to $485,000 per unit. But an examination by THE CITY found that NYCHA’s actual per-unit cost consistently comes in lower — and usually much lower — than the estimate. In the latest episode of the FAQ NYC podcast, host Harry Siegel interviews Bill Griffith, the cartoonist behind the comic strip Zippy. Griffith’s new graphic novel pays tribute to Ernie Bushmiller, another beloved cartoonist. Weather scoop by New York Metro Weather Monday's Weather Rating: 2/10. Well folks, it is still raining. Clouds and showers are expected all day long with humid and dreary conditions continuing. A damp breeze persists all day, too. The vibes are simply not good out there. Things To Do Here’s what’s going on around the city this week. Friday, Sept. 29: Kameron Neal's Down The Barrel (Of A Lens), a large-scale video installation with charged imagery from the NYPD’s declassified surveillance film collections. Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, noon to 10 p.m. (Limited additional dates through Oct. 3.) Free. Saturday, Sept. 30: The Soul of Food: Afro-Indigenous Traditions of Harvesting, with discussions followed by harvesting and cooking. Clifton Place Memorial Garden, Brooklyn. 1 to 3:30 p.m. Free with registration. Saturday, Sept. 30: Fall for Health, hosted by the Queens Botanical Garden and New York-Presbyterian Queens. Complimentary garden admission and health screenings for women and children, plus guided tours through exhibits. Queens Botanical Garden, noon to 4 p.m. Free with registration. THE KICKER: Beginning yesterday, every borough in NYC got one free bus route. Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Monday. Love, THE CITY P.S. Love THE CITY? 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