said at a news conference<\/a> last week, \u201cour streets are inevitably impacted.\u201d<\/p>\nThings weren\u2019t easy for pedestrians either, and more than one stood forlornly on the sidewalk contemplating the seemingly impossible task of getting to their destination only a block or two away.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, inside the U.N., delegates and dignitaries heard a lot of long speeches and went to a lot of long meetings. So, who really drew the short straw?<\/p>\n
Kidding. It\u2019s the New Yorkers outside. Just ask them.<\/p>\n
Some were angry less about traffic and more about geopolitical issues. About a dozen were peacefully protesting on Tuesday. One held a sign saying, \u201cStop the genocide and ecocide in West Papua.\u201d Dave Robinson, 65, was protesting Mr. Trump. He was holding up a sign that read, \u201cSorry, world. We hate him too.\u201d<\/p>\n
A store owner on Second Avenue between 43rd and 44th declined to give her name but said the blocked roads were deterring customers from coming into her business. And she found it \u201ckind of annoying,\u201d she said, to show proof of residency to get into her apartment above.<\/p>\n
A contrarian dry cleaner said that he was actually happy about the General Assembly because it had brought in business from suit-wearing attendees. Still, delivery trucks have had to park a few blocks away.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it\u2019s just a matter of which side of the street you are on. You can walk Second Avenue on its west side more or less freely.<\/p>\n
The east side is trickier. Navigating between 42nd and 43rd is almost impossible. (Unless you tell officers you want to go to the bagel shop, then they might let you past. Don\u2019t say we told you.) Bicycles are in the same pickle. And forget about getting to First Avenue.<\/p>\n
New York City has declared a gridlock alert for all five days of this workweek. But then it will be over, and the city should return to normal, at least until the three gridlock alert days in November and 12 more in December.<\/p>\n
And by normal, of course, we mean, streets choked with traffic, subways packed to bursting, buses that never turn up, and every other person having an attitude. So, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It takes a lot to faze New Yorkers. This week is doing its darnedest. Leaders from all over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,131410,9,24,63,10924,2271],"class_list":["post-354127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-general-assembly-un","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-roads-and-traffic","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354127","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=354127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}