{"id":251480,"date":"2026-07-24T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251480\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:21:10","slug":"roads-closed-friday-in-downtown-dc-for-correspondents-dinner-nbc4-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251480\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads closed Friday in downtown DC for Correspondents\u2019 Dinner \u2013 NBC4 Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re driving in downtown D.C. on Friday, be aware of road closures and parking restrictions until midnight because of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The rescheduled White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner will be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, in the Old Post Office building that previously was the Trump International Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The dinner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/national-international\/rescheduled-white-house-correspondents-dinner-what-to-know\/4133941\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be held nearly three months after the original event was cut short<\/a> by a gunman who prosecutors say was trying to assassinate President Donald Trump. The Secret Service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/national-international\/what-we-know-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting\/4096112\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rushed Trump out of a ballroom, and an officer who was shot was saved by his bulletproof vest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>D.C.\u2019s Metropolitan Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/release\/traffic-advisory-special-event-waldorf-astoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warned of the following road restrictions around the Waldorf Astoria<\/a> until 11:59 p.m. Friday. Drivers are warned to expect delays and \u201cmay want to consider alternative routes,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Closed to vehicle traffic:<\/p>\n<p>10th Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to Constitution Avenue NW<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Avenue from 9th Street to 13th Street NW<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Avenue from 13th Street to 14th Street NW (local traffic requiring access to the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue will be permitted through)<\/p>\n<p>10th Street from E Street to Pennsylvania Avenue NW<\/p>\n<p>11th Street from E Street to Pennsylvania Avenue NW (local traffic requiring access to 11th Street will be permitted through)<\/p>\n<p>12th Street Tunnel\/Expressway<\/p>\n<p>13th Street from E Street to Pennsylvania Avenue NW (local traffic requiring access to 13th Street will be permitted through)<\/p>\n<p>Closed to through traffic:<\/p>\n<p>12th Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to Constitution Avenue, NW<\/p>\n<p>Emergency no parking:<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Avenue from 9th Street to 13th Street, NW<\/p>\n<p>10th Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to Constitution Avenue, NW<\/p>\n<p>12th Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to Constitution Avenue, NW<\/p>\n<p>Hotel guests and people attending the dinner will be able to access 12th Street only by traveling north from Constitution Avenue NW.<\/p>\n<p>Road restrictions are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>The dinner is set to begin at 8 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/event\/white-house-event\/white-house-correspondents-association-holds-rescheduled-dinner\/445253\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A live stream of the event and red carpet<\/a> will begin at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re driving in downtown D.C. on Friday, be aware of road closures and parking restrictions until midnight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,16475],"class_list":["post-251480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}