Street closures and bus-only routes in Midtown Manhattan, New York NY
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Road ClosureAs discussed during the dispatch call, police implemented traffic control and street closures near 8th Avenue and West 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan, restricting traffic to buses and emergency vehicles along nearby avenues including Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Broadway, and Eighth.
Audio|Heard on: NYPD Citywide 3
Listen to dispatch call
01:4
Transcript:
00:00
Can you move one of them over to 50th and 8th and shut it down? Allow northeastbound on Fifth only buses and emergency vehicles.
00:11
You want to solo shut down on 50th and 8th?
00:14
That's the ten four until Service Avenue nine.
00:16
The position.
00:22
So cool to set and collide.
00:24
(name withheld), out of here.
00:26
Oh sir.
00:28
I see. I'm gonna start 50th on 8th and 50th on Broadway only merging into vehicles and buses.
00:37
All right, you lost your ICP now?
00:40
Bus to let the ICP know 7th Avenue is running empty.
00:43
All right, that's a four.
00:45
It's so cool.
00:46
So all they covered ICP out of here?
00:49
Go for ICP.
00:50
ICP. Seven seven unit five zero at shut going eastbound.
00:54
I'm also gonna start 50th and Broadway and 8th Avenue.
00:59
Only buses and emergency vehicles coming east on 54th towards 7th.
01:03
7th is running heavy.
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Location mentioned:
8th Ave & W 50th St, New York, NY 10019
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