President Obama has an unwelcome holiday gift for New Yorkers — he’ll be coming to Midtown the same day the streets will be impossibly clogged by the Rockefeller Plaza tree-lighting ceremony. He has picked Wednesday, one of the busiest gridlock-alert days of the year, to descend on the area with his motorcade for a fund-raiser and party.

While throngs squeeze into the blocks around Rockefeller Center, the president and his entourage will be just a few blocks away at the Sheraton New York Hotel.

It’ll be the double whammy of all traffic nightmares.

A city official said 48th, 49th, 50th and 51st streets between Fifth and Sixth avenues will be subject to closures for the tree lighting.

But that doesn’t include the additional closings that come with a presidential motorcade that will make its way to the hotel on Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street.

Obama will be attending a fund-raiser held by the LBGT community at 7:30 p.m., followed by a holiday reception billed as a thank-you to his early supporters.

The New York Republican State Committee criticized his decision to host an event during the tree lighting, which a city official said was scheduled as far back as August

(Source: NY Post)