Datebook: Oct. 9-13

TUESDAY 7:30 a.m. ABNY Breakfast: Mayor Bloomberg and Governor (Jeb) Bush together on stage! This will be cheaper than waiting for their $1,000-a-plate campaing fundraisers to start. At Hilton New York, 53rd and Sixth. WEDNESDAY 11 a.m. You haven't forgotten Jane Jacobs already, have you? Architectural historian Matt Postal leads a Municipal Art Society walking tour of the Village legend's haunts starting at the AIA Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.

6:30 p.m. JANE JACOBS VS. ROBERT MOSES: How Stands the Debate Today? Another reminder about Jane Jacobs, this one featuring all the top names in urban planning, starting with Amanda Burden, Michael Sorkin, Nicolai Ouroussoff, Brad Lander and others . This one though it fully subscribed, so you can show up and wait in line or just wait until next week, when the Wagner School will do its own tribute. CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street.

THURSDAY 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Manhattan on the Move: A Transportation Agenda for a Growing City. For real transit nuts: six and a half hours about making connections and reducing congestion. Former Bogota, Columbia, Mayor Enrique Penalosa, a celebrity among progressive urbanites, speaks in the morning.

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