While congress battles over the budget, President Barack Obama is hitting the road and returning to New York City Wednesday. He was just in the city a week ago to raise big money for the Democratic Party at a fundraiser in Harlem.
Wednesday night, the president will be in Midtown to attend Reverend Al Sharpton’s annual National Action Network Convention.
Gridlock Sam of the Daily News reports:
Obama will land at JFK Airport around 5 p.m. Wednesday before boarding a chopper bound for Wall St. He’ll motorcade up the FDR Drive and cut crosstown where he’ll address the gala at the Sheraton Hotel on Seventh Ave. between 53rd and 52nd Sts. The FDR Drive below 63rd St. will be frozen in both directions, along with all avenues from Seventh Ave. to the FDR Drive. (and again when he heads back to Wall St. between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.) The M7, M20 and M104 buses will be detoured off Seventh Ave.
Take the West Side Highway over the FDR Drive.
Adding an element to Wednesday’s gridlock is a 7 p.m. Yankees game vs. the Twins.
(YWN Desk – NYC)
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2 Peas in a pod.
They should charge the fundraiser for all the added security. What a nightmare the city is now at its only 9:00 AM.
Mazel Tov! Am I supposed to celebrate now?
maybe barry obama can get a minyan together of all these like-mided mamzerim like barron, sharpton, butts, rangel, farakhan etc. to put their scholarly minds together and form a think tank so we can have 4 more years of barry o as prez.