Saturday, April 24, 2010

Summer is here, and with that comes street closures

Scroll Down far below for the most important street closures of Sunday! I'm talking about the March of Dimes walk from Columbus and 65th to Madison Avenue and 23rd, via Lexington Avenue!! Times and specifics are listed below, scroll down to the bullet point marked VERY IMPORTANT!

Today: Saturday, there were some big ones, 3rd avenue was closed from 23rd to 34th for a street fair, so was 8th avenue from 14th to 23rd. Then there was the Sikh Parade on Madison Avenue up to the 40's maybe, but that was very short. It all brings up the fact that it's time to do this again, it's time to make note of what streets on Saturdays and Sundays will be closed, in advance. All information is likely to be wrong, but more likely to be right. Your best bet is to look up the information as I have presented below it can be found at http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/wkndtraf.shtml, and when traffic is light, you should explore each street when empty to see what things will be like when things get heavy. Check the news radio stations at their traffic update intervals to see if they give you any more info. AM 1130 is supposed to update on the 5's (ie 11:35) AM 880 is supposed to update on the 8's (ie 9:28) however both these stations sometimes get sidetracked with either their guests, or baseball, and the best station of course is AM 1010, updating on the 10's, really the 11's (9:30/9:31)

Oh and at 66th street this day they had it closed for a crane between Park Avenue and Madison!!

Anyway here are the noteworthy streets for tomorrow, copied from the DOT website:

East 16th Street between Union Square East and Irving Place: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 6pm to facilitate crane operation.

West 17th Street between 6th Avenue and 5th Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 6pm to facilitate crane operation.

Side note- the two above streets were not closed today, so they will very likely be closed on Sunday!

East 18th Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 6pm to facilitate crane operation.

West 26th Street between 8th Avenue and 7th Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 6pm to facilitate crane operation.

West 39th Street between 9th Avenue and 8th Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 6pm to facilitate crane operation.

West 41st Street between 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 12:01am to 8am to facilitate crane operation.

West 44th Street between 6th Avenue and 5th Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 7pm to facilitate crane operation.

East 87th Street between 5thAvenue and Madison Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 4pm to facilitate crane operation.

West 97th Street between West End Avenue and Broadway: This street will be closed Sunday from 7am to 7pm to facilitate crane operation.

East 105th Street between Madison Avenue and 5th Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 6am to 8pm to facilitate crane operation.

East 119th Street between 3rd Avenue and Lexington Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 6am to 9pm to facilitate crane assembly operation.

West 121st Street between St. Nicholas Avenue and 7th Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 4pm to facilitate crane operation.

Thompson Street between West 3rd Street and Washington Square South: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 6pm to facilitate crane operation.

Wooster Street between Grand Street and Broome Street: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 6pm to facilitate crane operation.

Ann Street between Nassau Street and Park Row: This street will be closed Saturday from 8am to 6pm and Sunday from 9am to 6pm to facilitate NYCDDC roadway work.

Intersection of Ann Street and Nassau Street: This street will be closed Saturday from 8am to 6pm and Sunday from 9am to 6pm to facilitate NYCDDC roadway work.

Side note- Ann Street was not closed today, so it may also not be closed tomorrow, however the chances that we'll need such a street east of Broadway/Park Row is not likely.

Trinity Place between Edgar Street and Rector Street: This street will be closed Sunday from 7am to 1pm to facilitate crane operation.

  • VERY IMPORTANT! -> major streets closed=
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Formation: Columbus Avenue between 62nd Street and 65th Street
Route: 65th Street from Columbus Avenue to Lexington Avenue; Lexington Avenue to 23rd Street; 23rd Street to Madison Avenue
End: Madison Square Park

The above streets will be closed Sunday from 9am to 3pm for the March of Dimes as permitted by the Mayor's Street Activity Permit Office (SAPO).
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And also here! ->

East Side of Broadway between West 96th Street and West 110th Street: The east side street will be closed Sunday from 11am to 6pm for the Veritas Inc/Duke Ellington Neighborhood Association./24th Precinct Community Council Fair as permitted by the Mayor's Street Activity Permit Office (SAPO).
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If you're in The Bronx, this is noteworthy:
Hutchinson River Parkway northbound between Bruckner Expressway Interchange and New England Thruway: The northbound roadway will be closed Sunday from 6:15am to 11am for the Bronx Biathlon Event.

This is most likely a mistake, as it probably was on Saturday and not Sunday, but you can't be too careful! drive around here to scout it out and see if it's closed on Sunday->
Third Avenue between East 23rd Street and East 34th Street: This street will be closed Sunday from 11am to 6pm for the Third Avenue Merchants Spring Expo as permitted by the Mayors Street Activity Permit Office (SAPO).
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