{"id":266768,"date":"2026-06-14T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266768\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:27:45","slug":"manhattan-street-closures-for-world-cup-to-start-at-noon-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266768\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Street Closures for World Cup to Start at Noon on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">While kickoff for the Morocco-Brazil game isn\u2019t until 6 p.m. on Saturday, New York City will begin shutting some major streets in Midtown Manhattan from noon to facilitate World Cup travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani has declared every day in which a World Cup match is scheduled at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to be a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pJQDYEMT4gU\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cgridlock alert\u201d day<\/a> because of the significant traffic expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">The following roads will be fully or partially closed until 11 p.m., except to FIFA shuttle buses, local city buses, World Cup affiliates and emergency vehicles:<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-11haxaj e1me5xab0\">42nd Street from First Avenue to 12th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-11haxaj e1me5xab0\">Two lanes of Sixth Avenue from 42nd Street to 59th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-11haxaj e1me5xab0\">Two lanes of Fifth Avenue from 42nd Street to 59th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-11haxaj e1me5xab0\">West 40th Street between Eighth Avenue and 11th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-11haxaj e1me5xab0\">West 41st Street between Eighth Avenue and 10th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">At Manhattan\u2019s Pennsylvania Station, where thousands of game day ticket holders will board trains to the stadium, the NJ Transit section will be closed four hours before the match begins, and for several hours after the game ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Passengers using the New York City subway, Long Island Rail Road or Amtrak will still be able to access Penn Station during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While kickoff for the Morocco-Brazil game isn\u2019t until 6 p.m. on Saturday, New York City will begin shutting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[81663,91693,75,84,83,9,24,56,63,22153,53665,1687,12299,89465],"class_list":["post-266768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-live-detached","tag-long-island-rail-road-co","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-pennsylvania-station-manhattan","tag-railroads","tag-subways","tag-transit-systems","tag-world-cup-2026-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266768","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=266768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}