Major road closure in Midtown Manhattan due to operation, New York NY


Police have closed multiple roads around Madison Avenue and 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan to manage an ongoing operation or event. Officers are directing traffic to clear the area and preparing to deploy highway blockers, causing major traffic disruption in the area.
Audio|Source: NYPD Citywide 3
07:23
Transcript:
00:00
Captain Leigh, this is Flair. Compton-192nd Street, I'll press the system package in transit for the east, 6-3-street in Lexington Avernone.
00:06
Captain Lee, the Lieutenant McLaren.
00:07
I'm there, Captain.
00:08
I'm trying to get down now.
00:09
Okay, pull them out of a key, I mean, sent back to the westbound.
00:13
Time for me.
00:14
I'm looking. That's the leader of Lucerne McClare.
00:15
I'll think of her.
00:16
I'm... past next to the way.
00:18
Got to close it right now.
00:19
Get a lot of cars coming.
00:20
Lieutenant Eve on the air.
00:23
On the air. You ready, you got personnel on 5-4 in Madison? Yeah, I got 5-3 or 5-4 on Madison.
00:30
One of the one. All right, what time you implemented the closure? I'll implement it now for...
00:37
Sergeant Burke, on the air.
00:38
Sergeant Burke, 94 on the air.
00:40
On the air.
00:41
All right, uh, implement the closure, bleed out, uh, 5-7 on park.
00:46
No more traffic, shut it down.
00:48
Stand for it.
00:49
Carol, let's get 5-8-5-7-on-fif bled out as well.
00:55
Kept4-4-4-2.
00:56
We're bled out. We're beautiful.
00:57
57th Street is clear.
00:58
Can I call that right? Indeed, let me know when you have 54th Street, Madison and 5-3 and Madison clear as well.
01:06
All right, right.
01:07
Sergeant Koraniya.
01:08
Stand by. Hey Joe, as soon as we get the word that everything is cleared out, I'll let highway know to throw in the blockers.
01:14
Ten four bush.
01:15
Lieutenant McLaren on the air?
01:17
Not there. Luke, can you pull through the light of westbound at 7th Avenue, which is going to be out?
01:23
Lieutenant McLaren Rudd?
01:24
I read. I'm pulling it.
01:25
Thank you.
01:28
I was Captain Lee.
01:30
104. A lap, let me know when 57th Street is clear, please.
01:35
104. Captain Lee, the Lutenant Cutler, on air.
01:39
Can you shut it down your westbound traffic on 5'7? I'm still getting traffic.
01:44
We're just bleeding it out right now.
01:45
There's no traffic westbound on 57 from Madison to 5th.
01:50
We're just clearing out the rest.
01:51
We got updney Tony.
01:52
West Town on 5-7, 577.
01:55
Sergeant Burke 9-9-4 on the air.
01:56
There.
01:57
From my personnel, no westbound traffic on the side street.
02:01
We have to leave the lute cover.
02:05
There. Not pull that traffic, northbound.
02:08
Send them northbound on everything.
02:09
Clean it up.
02:10
We're doing it right now.
02:11
Westbound is now clear from Madison almost to 6th Avenue.
02:15
Still got a whole avenue.
02:16
Sergeant Burke, on the air.
02:17
On air.
02:18
Give me your favor, pull out eastbound traffic on 5-7 at Park.
02:23
Just a lead-y-pull suggestion, just pull the traffic.
02:26
D.I. Consider, on the air.
02:28
On the air. Are you with Kotler by 5-7 in Madison?
02:31
I'm looking over there on my 5-5 in medicine.
02:34
Captain Lee, Chief, I'll head over, I'll fix it.
02:36
Okay, thank you.
02:37
Good fashion, Captain, Captain.
02:38
Go ahead.
02:40
570550 is good.
02:42
Rule 4 highway.
02:43
It's being abled. We need to need to bleed out walker left.
02:47
I guess confirmation that 57th Street is clear.
02:51
Lieutenant Kotler on the air.
02:54
On air. We're waiting for your peace to be clear.
02:57
Is that done yet? The last remnants on 57 is clear.
03:01
We're waiting for northbound Madison to bleed out.
03:05
I'm on 5.7 and park.
03:07
It's shut down westbound.
03:08
We're good in this direction.
03:09
We're just, we need a bleed out northbound Madison.
03:11
Alright, so the question is, are there any cars on 57th Street between Madison and 7th Avenue?
03:18
Captain Lee, oh, 1-3 finish me out, Madison, I can finish 57th Street.
03:23
All right, we'll keep an audience.
03:25
Only eastbound traffic, so they're bleeding out eastbound also.
03:29
Chief O'Sullivan on the air? Joe.
03:32
Chief, the advice, staff is loading into their cars.
03:35
Staff is loading into their cars.
03:36
All right, listen, let's notify highway to put the blockers in, Lieutenant Kotler.
03:42
Let's bleed that out and, you know, just tell the highway to hold off on that little section, okay, until you bleed it all out.
03:49
And for almost done on Madison right now.
03:52
Jet red on that? Red, red,
03:55
red. Just have them hold off just on that 5'7 and Mad, just the only one I just need to hold off on.
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Location mentioned:
Madison Ave & E 57th St, New York, NY 10022
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