With this week's buzz surrounding the Pope's upcoming visit to New York City, which happens to overlap with the United Nations 70th General Assembly, this diesel rock we call Manhattan will soon be inundated with street closures and hassles.
You might want to start practice grumbling impatiently now, just so you're extra warmed up.
It's a rather huge portion of Manhattan that will be affected.
Street closures, headaches, hassles, major inconveniences, mental breakdowns, bum fights, widespread panic and perhaps even zombies are expected to break out "in Central Park West, East Harlem, the Financial District, Midtown, Madison Square Garden, and the Upper East Side."
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Now go ahead and take a look at the four page statement below, released by the New York City Department of Transportation, for a full rundown of Manhattan streets to avoid for the foreseeable future.
P.S., we wish you all of the luck in the world getting around NYC later this week. You're going to need it.