Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas and happy New Year Lower Manhattan! Here’s the holiday forecast through the end of the year: The busy holiday travel season continues with official NYC gridlock alert days Thursday, Dec. 22 and Friday, Dec. 23. For those heading into New Jersey via the George Washington Bridge, the westbound lower level will [...]

It’s a madhouse on the roads, rails and skies Wednesday November 23rd through Wednesday November 30th between Thanksgiving getaways, Black Friday, return trips home Sunday and Monday and all capped with a visit from President Obama on the Wednesday after Thanksgiving, which is also tree lighting day. Wednesday November 23rd, the day before Thanksgiving, is [...]

A busy weekend of traffic tribulations begins Friday with Veterans Day and a visit from Vice President Joe Biden. Mr. Biden is hitting the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden mid to late afternoon Friday to attend the unveiling of the “Horse Soldier” Statue that was created to honor our special forces. As the V.P. is [...]

As more time passes, the bigger the rallies from Occupy Wall Street become and there’s something big brewing for Saturday. Organizers are calling for a day of global action in the run up to a meeting of the world’s 20 biggest economies (the G-20 Summit) in France the following week. That means the chances for [...]

There’s no rest for Occupy Wall Street, which keeps growing each passing day. Drivers should be extra vigilant around Liberty Street and Broadway as the protests and surprise demos continue daily. Hubert St. (which normally runs eastbound) from Collister to Hudson Streets is now closed through June 2012 as part of NYC DDC’s water main [...]

There’s a new traffic pattern in effect for Chambers St. that could throw drivers for a loop. Just this past Monday, Chambers St. between Church and Greenwich Sts. was converted from two-way traffic to one-way westbound for the next 18 months as the city begins the second phase in upgrading the water main that runs [...]

Dear readers, We’ve been through this before, and we will get through the next two weeks as well. Checkpoints will continue at Canal St., meaning back-ups north of Canal. The U.N. General Assembly will be in full bloom starting Sept. 19, and I am expecting some, if not most of the 80 world leaders to [...]

The Labor Day crunch Thursday and Friday means a variety of gridlock on all major roads and crossings, including the Battery and Holland Tunnels, as folks squeeze in one last getaway before the unofficial end of summer. The roads servicing the big three airports will be even more crowded this Labor Day weekend compared to [...]

Dear Transit Sam, Please advise me on what to do. I received a summons recently for “No Parking” in the West Village. But, the sign was buried up in scaffolding about 12 to 14 feet high. It was impossible to see. Who would look up for such a sign? I disputed the summons and was [...]

The North Upper Roadway of the Manhattan Bridge to Manhattan will be closed 11 p.m. Sunday night to 5 a.m. Monday morning with two lanes Manhattan-bound on the lower roadway during this time. While the Brooklyn Bridge is typically closed 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. weeknights in the Manhattan-bound direction, there will be no closure [...]