Gridlock Update: Fifth Avenue is the New U.S. Congress

Last week’s post-election shutdown of Fifth Avenue outside Trump Tower by anti-Trump protesters is just the beginning of expected congestion around the president-elect’s home and office.

Motorists and bus riders can expect tie-ups, and pedestrians in the swarming neighborhood will be delayed by sidewalk lock-downs near the 58-story building Crains reports. New Yorkers are used to enduring such inconvenience when the president visits or the United Nations General Assembly convenes. Yet an ongoing police presence at the corner of one of Manhattan’s most congested spots would be unprecedented, Deputy Police Commissioner Stephen Davis said.

“We’re coming up on the holiday season, and we will need to work with the Secret Service to provide security at a stretch that includes the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, and all the shopping, the Bergdorf’s, the Gucci, every other known brand, and we will have to make it work,” Davis said. “There’s no getting around it. It could be a major inconvenience.”