Like B*sh, the Pope needs a whole NY neighborhood locked down while he's there.

[icymist]

A Neighborhood on Papal Lockdown

It takes a village to accommodate a Pope.

Or at least a small segment of the Upper East Side. That’s what the locals were coming to terms with on Thursday, as the area around the block where the pope is staying this weekend — East 72nd Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues — was prepared for full papal security lockdown by the authorities.

The pope is staying in a town house on the block from Friday through Sunday, and the authorities have shut the street to motorists and have restricted pedestrian access to the block, basically to residents, and employees and other people with official business on the block. These people said they have been instructed to carry identification to show to authorities to gain access to the street.

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Some shopkeepers said they had been told nothing about traffic restrictions and grew alarmed when they saw the shiny new metal barricades put along the curbs along stretches of 72nd Street and Madison Avenue, not to mention the traffic cones, wooden sawhorses and heavier, more imposing barriers like the heavy concrete barriers and bulky steel vehicle gates that one sees at traffic checkpoints in war zones. There was a bulletproof police booth installed near the town house where the Pope is staying, and one could see several air monitors in the area bearing the logo of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection.

Some people who live in the neighborhood acknowledged that the presence of the pope over the next few days would be a nuisance, but most described that as a tolerable inconvenience.

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[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. I'd love to know how much this visit will be costing the city.

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[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. I live in the Hudson Valley in NY, and they have been selling riverfront church estates up here.

Nearby, there is one nunnery that also has condos, and about 20 years ago, sold the total property of a nunnery to a condo builder. It is a weird place. The nuns cemetery is still there and the chapel is now a recreation center.

[TomInTib]

7. I hang out on the Hudson, every once and a while.

107 and Riverside Drive, Upper West Side NYC.

But I have read about those estate sales.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. My brother used to live off of 158th St and Riverside and we once rode bikes down to Riverside Park.

I also had friends back then who lived on Riverside and 95th Street. Babe Ruth used to live in that building.

I love the Hudson! I owned an apartment in Yonkers with knockout river views, and when I really need peace of mind up here, it's only about 10 minutes away by car. Much different up here than in the city.
The park below is a hop and skip from the condo/nunnery. :)

[TomInTib]

12. Life gets curious, sometimes.

I'll be spending some time in East Chatham in early Summer.

[TomInTib]

2. Typical NYC bs.

I was staying at W Times Square when the cops closed down the street because fiftyfuckingcents was going to have a party there.

Low-rent motherfucker like that, close down the damn street.

[monmouth]

4. Imagine the Jewish people in the immediate neighborhood trying to

have company, family over for Passover. Oy vey...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. lol! And many years ago I knew a few who had apartments in that neighborhood! Yes, oy vey!

[NYC Liberal]

8. I drove through it all today. So why does he need all that security? nt

[madrchsod]

9. because he`s god messenger...i`d better stop

[NYC Liberal]

11. Hm - if he is god's messenger, I think god should provide the security.

AND foot the bill too.

[Mugweed]

13. it's to protect the children

from the nazi pederast