Summer Streets (2)

UPDATE- 6TH AVE BETWEEN 14TH AND 23RD HAS A STREET FAIR FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM, AND WATER STREET FROM BROAD TO FULTON WILL ALSO BE CLOSED.

This Saturday and next Saturday:

From 7am to 1pm between the Brooklyn Bridge and 72nd Street Centre Street, Lafayette Street, 4th Avenue, and finally Park Avenue, will be closed. Traffic will only be allowed across centre street, 4th Avenue, and Park Avenue, at the following major cross streets

• 23rd Street

• 30th Street

• 34th Streets

• 36th/37th Streets

• 41st, 42nd,45th Streets

(route will go over Viaduct)

• 49th/50th Streets

• 53th/54th Streets

• 57th Street

• 59th/60th Streets

• 65th/66th Streets

• 72nd Street – WESTBOUND only

• Chambers Street

• Worth Street

• Canal Street

• Broome Street

• East Houston Street

• 8th/9th Streets

• 14th Street

Make sure to let your fare know about the event before you start your trip, tell them your plans to avoid the traffic, and that it may take longer than usual to get to their destination.

Early in the morning things should run smoothly if you know your thru streets, but as it gets toward 1pm, the shit will hit the fan, avoid anywhere near the 4th Ave, Park ave, centre st, Lafayette combo, especially here->>

Below Houston Street, SoHo particularly gets bad, try to stay a few avenues east or west of Lafayette. From Battery Park, Tribeca, and Downtown, avoid the mess, don't go near Centre or Lafayette. And last Saturday I noticed they were not letting traffic turn west from Lexington Avenue even onto the thru streets. Lexington Avenue will be a mess, plan your thru streets early and avoid Lexington all together. Didn't remember much about Madison Avenue.

Always check the DOT and Port Authority web-pages before your weekend shifts