Beginning at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31, 42nd Street from 6th to Eight Avenue will closed to traffic.

After 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31st, the remainder of the traffic closures will be instituted as crowd conditions warrant:

All cross-town streets from 37th to 41st Streets – Sixth to Eighth Avenues;
All cross-town streets from 49th to 59th Streets – Sixth to Eighth Avenues;
48th Street, from Fifth to Ninth Avenues;
Cross-town access for emergency vehicles will be available on 42nd, 48th, and 59th Streets.

People are strongly advised to use public transportation. On street parking will be extremely limited in the Midtown area. People should avoid all cross-town streets from 34th to 59th Streets, as well as Sixth and Eighth Avenues.

The Department will continue its drunken driving enforcement on New Year’s Eve through DWI patrols and checkpoints throughout the City. The NYPD made 10,517 drunken driving arrests this year, and as part of the DWI Forfeiture Initiative, seized 2,109 vehicles from drunk drivers so far in 2008.

(YWN Desk – NYC)