Ballet Traffic Advisory

Toward the latter part of next week there will be lots of important debuts at New York City Ballet which many will not want to miss.

Pope Francis is debuting here, too, at the same time – not at NYCB, although one can never really be sure about those things. He'll be in Central Park and Harlem, and at the full UN General Assembly, St. Patrick's, Madison Square Garden, and the 9/11 Memorial.

There ain't nobody going nowhere in a car/taxi/Uber or on a bicycle or by bus in much of Manhattan for much of Thursday and Friday. Here's a small, small sampling of the street closures on Friday, which is the evening of Zachary Catazaro's debut as Prince Siegfried:

Beginning at approximately midnight the following streets in the vicinity of Central Park will be closed to vehicular traffic until approximately 7 p.m.:

•           Central Park West between Columbus Circle and West 81st Street
•           W 61st Street between Central Park West and Broadway            
•           W 62nd Street between Central Park West and Broadway
•           W 63rd Street between Central Park West and Broadway
•           W 64th Street between Central Park West and Broadway
•           W 65th Street between Central Park West and Broadway
•           W 66th Street between Central Park West and Broadway
•           W 67th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 68th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 69th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 70th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 71st Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 72nd Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 73rd Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 74th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 75th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 76th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
•           W 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue

Beginning at approximately midnight the following streets in the vicinity of Madison Square Garden will be closed to vehicular traffic ntil approximately midnight:

•           31^st Street from 7^th Avenue to 9^th Avenue

•           33^rd Street from 7^th Avenue to 9^th Avenue

Read the entire NYPD press release here and make plans to walk most everywhere.