Dates: Thurs., May 5–Wed., May 11
ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING RULES ARE SUSPENDED THURSDAY FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION
Happy Mother’s Day! Lower Manhattan will be busy Sunday as people flock to restaurants to celebrate with their mothers, grandmothers, aunts et al. Mother’s Day has far worse traffic than Father’s Day since dads take moms out and moms cook for dads. The Holland Tunnel will pick up lots of extra traffic in the afternoon. Follow me on Twitter @GridlockSam and check the website www.GridlockSam.com for the latest traffic updates to make sure you give the Mother’s Day gift of avoiding gridlock!
The National Alliance for Mental Illness Walk will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The route follows Fulton St. between South and Gold Sts., Gold St. between Fulton and Spruce Sts., Spruce St. between Gold St. and Park Row, Park Row between Spruce St. and the Brooklyn Bridge, Chambers St. between Centre St. and Broadway, Broadway between Chambers and Barclays Sts., Spruce St. between Park Row and Gold St., and Gold St. between Spruce and Fulton Sts.
The 4th-Annual March to End Gun Violence from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday will cause slowdowns on Broadway between Barclays and Chambers Sts., and Chambers St. between Broadway and Centre St.
The Middle Collegiate Church Second Avenue Festival will close Second Ave. between 6th and 14th Sts. from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
The Love Compost event will close Duane St. between Greenwich and Hudson Sts. from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
Milling and paving work 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night this week on Canal St. between Varick and Allen Sts. will cause slowdowns and lane closures throughout the week.
In the Battery Park Underpass, there will be a full closure of the north tube from the FDR to West St. 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. each weekday night and 1 a.m. to 8 a.m. Saturday morning. Use the detour and exit onto South St., continue on to Whitehall St., turn left onto State St. to Battery Pl., and then turn left onto Battery Pl. to West St. The North and South tubes will both fully close in both directions 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. each weekday night. For the south tube detour, go south on West St., left onto Battery Pl., continuing onto State St., and going one block north on Water St., then right onto Broad St.
One New York-bound lane of the Holland Tunnel will close 11 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday. During the same duration, the New York-bound south tube of the Lincoln Tunnel will also close. Watch for major slowdowns into Lower Manhattan and on Canal St.
