Thurs., March 12 – Wed., March 18
ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING RULES ARE IN EFFECT ALL WEEK
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Midtown will see most of the slowdowns from the 254th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Fifth Ave. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, but Lower Manhattan will feel the domino effect. Watch for slowdowns as drivers avoid the Queens-Midtown and Lincoln tunnels and head Downtown to the Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn bridges, and the Holland Tunnel.
Late-night homecoming won’t be easy for Lower Manhattanites on Thursday. In the Lincoln Tunnel, the New York-bound south tube will close 11 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday, sending inbound traffic south to the Holland Tunnel. Meanwhile, one New York-bound and one New Jersey-bound lane of the Holland Tunnel will close during the same period. Over on the East River, all Manhattan-bound lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge will close 11 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday. Expect extra traffic on the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges, as well as in the Battery Tunnel. Canal, Delancey, and West Sts. will have more traffic as a result.
The New York City Half Marathon will impact several streets with rolling closures in and leading into Lower Manhattan 5 a.m. to noon Sunday: the southbound West Side Highway between 44th St. and the Battery Park Underpass, the Battery Park Underpass between the West Side Highway and the South Street exit of the F.D.R., South St. between Old Slip and Maiden Lane, Maiden Lane between South and Water Sts., Water St. between Maiden Lane and Wall St. and between Wall and Whitehall Sts., State St. between Whitehall and Pearl Sts., Front St. between Maiden Lane and Old Slip, Wall St. between Water and South Sts., Gouverneur Lane between Water and South Sts., Hanover Square between Water and Stone Sts., Stone St. between Hanover Square and Coenties Alley, Coenties Alley between Stone and Water Sts., Pearl St. between Coenties Alley and Hanover Square, and Broad St. between Water and South Sts.
This means that the southbound F.D.R. will see lots of extra traffic, and it’ll be tough for Battery Park City residents to get their cars east of West St. On West St./Route 9A two north-bound left lanes will close from Canal St. to 14th St. 11 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday.
Starting Friday the Stone Street Pedestrian Mall will be back in effect on Stone St. between Hanover Square and Broad St., and on Mill Lane between Stone and South William Sts. The streets will close 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily through November 15th.
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