ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING RULES ARE SUSPENDED MONDAY FOR COLUMBUS DAY
SUMMONS ALERT DAY!
Monday is Columbus Day and a notoriously confusing day for parking. Here’s what you need to know: Alternate side parking rules and school parking rules near public schools and many private schools will be suspended. All other rules, including meters, remain in effect. The good news is this: even if you’re still required to go to work, the holiday means traffic will be lighter than usual.
Special alert for the Brooklyn Bridge! All Manhattan-bound lanes will close for 54 consecutive hours, midnight Friday through 6 a.m. Monday. That will send drivers over the Manhattan Bridge and onto Delancey St., as well as down to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and onto West St.
The Hudson River crossings will get hit too, with the Giants taking on the 49ers 8:30 p.m. Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Expect extra traffic in the Holland Tunnel as drivers avoiding the Lincoln Tunnel jet down Seventh Ave. onto Varick.
The Concrete Canyon Run 2015 will close South St. between Broad St. and Old Slip 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday.
The Bowling Green Association will close Whitehall St. between Stone and Water Sts., Broadway between Morris and Stone Sts., and Broadway between Liberty St. and Battery Pl. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday.
The Stone Street Pedestrian Mall will close Stone St. between Hanover Sq. and Broad St., and Mill Ln. between Stone and South William Sts., 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day this week.
On West St./Route 9A, one southbound lane will close between West Thames and Vesey Sts. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday.
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.
The following Lower Manhattan streets will be closed all week: Thames St. between Greenwich St. and Trinity Pl., Fletcher St. between Front and South Sts., and Dutch St. between Fulton and John Sts.
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