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Traffic congestion and street closures in ManhattanNew York NY

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Madison Ave & E 47th St, New York, NY 10017

Police are managing multiple street closures and traffic congestion near Madison Ave and E 47th St in Manhattan. Officers are directing traffic and using barriers around 47th Street, Madison Avenue, Fifth Avenue, and nearby intersections. Confusion over street closures has caused gridlock with commercial vehicles and taxis stuck in the area.

Audio|Source: NYPD Citywide 3
03:36
Transcript:
00:00
7602 at 5-7 and Madison.
00:03
Allow no turns onto 5-7 from Madison. Push them straight or make them go eastbound. The Westbound is heavy.
00:10
57 and 5 is close.
00:16
7-4-0 what's my turn?
00:21
No, 164, thank you.
00:25
7609 to Axel Eversely.
00:27
Okay,
00:30
7609. I want you to go 560, 6,000 and exudited northbound.
00:46
7609, your copy?
00:49
Dr. Doctor, um, can you tear five-step? Expo, please?
00:54
I need you to go to 5'6 and Madison and expedite the northbound of Madison.
01:00
Olive is already on 5-7 and Madison with two cop cops over there, so they're going to take care of it. I want you to move over the 5-6.
01:10
The temple, exo temple.
01:34
One team three on here, but team three.
01:37
Go see, two.
01:40
Yeah, I'm crossing Broadway right now, okay.
01:43
The transfer four.
01:53
4-6, 4-7, Madison to fill. 4-7, Madison, Madison to fill.
01:58
Disquizing this box, you gotta let them through, you gotta let them through.
02:03
You got to let them through.
02:04
Unit of 4-7, 4-7 and 5. You got this vehicle through, okay. You got commercials and taxes on the block.
02:14
4-7, Mad to Phil. 4-7, Matt to Phil.
02:19
Okay,
02:23
four seven of my second is open.
02:27
The question is open.
02:31
To anyone in charge of 47th Street, Matt to Fifth,
02:37
Navita on the block.
02:41
Hi-bye.
02:46
Someone closed 4-7, Matt 2-5, and everyone is stuck in the box, commercials, cabs,
02:52
and whatnot. 4-7 and 5 has nothing to do with it been wrong.
02:58
The advice for the cemetery is open to cross down traffic.
03:02
It shouldn't be closed.
03:06
Well, if someone gave the opposite along instructions, and we have a parking lot on 4-7 right now, Madison 2-5.
03:21
I'm walking down to Frives Street.
03:25
All right, that's a 10-4[1], but 4-7 is open to cross down, traffic is not closed.
03:31
10-4[1], 10-4. Because I was just in the having a witness and that's the interest you got.
03:35
That's a 4.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment—message received, understood, or OK.

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