By Amy Tennery<\/p>\n
NEW YORK, June 8 (Reuters) – Pedestrian traffic will be restricted for several blocks surrounding Madison Square Garden on Monday, as U.S. President Donald Trump \u200cattends Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San \u200cAntonio Spurs.<\/p>\n
The Knicks will play their first Finals home game in 27 years, riding a stunning 13-game postseason winning \u200bstreak. They return home following a pair of road wins that put them up 2-0 in the best-of-seven Finals, and the five boroughs were buzzing with anticipation with tickets fetching sky-high prices on resale platforms.<\/p>\n
Trump’s planned attendance ratcheted up security plans over the weekend, and on Monday the \u200cNew York Police Department said pedestrians \u2060without an “authorized reason” would not be allowed inside a secure area around the arena between West 35th and 30th Streets and Sixth and Eighth \u2060Avenues beginning 4-1\/2 hours before the 8:30 p.m. ET (0030 GMT) tipoff.<\/p>\n
“With tonight\u2019s presidential visit, there will be extra security measures in and around MSG that the NYPD and Secret Service have planned together,” \u200bNYPD \u200bsaid in a statement posted to social media.<\/p>\n
“No one \u200bwill be allowed inside the secure \u200carea unless you have a ticket to the game, a train ticket, are going to a business inside the area, have credentials, or have some other authorized reason to be there,” it said.<\/p>\n
Those entering the secure area will be screened and will only be permitted to enter through a handful of access points.<\/p>\n
The Secret Service previously urged ticketholders to arrive two hours \u200cearly to the venue long known as the “World’s Most \u200bFamous Arena,” which sits atop the busiest transit hub \u200bin the United States, Penn Station.<\/p>\n
Fans \u200bshould expect “Secret Service-level security screening” with a no-bag policy.<\/p>\n
The watch party for \u200cfans that has been held outside MSG \u200bfor previous playoff games will \u200bnot take place on Monday due to security concerns, the NYPD said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Trump has attended several high-profile sporting events in his second term, including the U.S. Open tennis \u200bmen’s final across town in \u200cFlushing, Queens, where thousands of ticketholders missed the start of the match as \u200bsecurity checks related to his attendance caused confusion and slowed entry.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Amy \u200bTennery in New York; Editing by Bill Berkrot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Amy Tennery NEW YORK, June 8 (Reuters) – Pedestrian traffic will be restricted for several blocks surrounding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[153,222,75,84,83,37011,9,24,1104,15454,63,67438,9138,9302,100990],"class_list":["post-259533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-donald-trump","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-police-department","tag-nyc","tag-pedestrian-traffic","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-secret-service","tag-secure-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}