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On the voice of New York

Mark Simone

On 710 WOR

Well, what's the day today today?

Wednesday.

It's Wednesday.

This is the final week of summer.

Fall begins on Monday. That's right. It'll be the first day of autumn Monday.

Now, I also got to warn you, next week is going to be awful in New York City in Manhattan. It's going to be UN Week, United Nations Week. This is where all the world leaders come to New York for no purpose at all. There's nothing they do over there at that UN.

It's just a big VIP lounge for dictators over there.

But when they come into town, they stay at all the top hotels,

and all the top hotels are all over the place.

Spread out all over Manhattan,

which means the traffic is tied up, there's congestion

everywhere. And many of these world leaders, tremendous security. They block off the streets

around the hotel, so you'll see that all over the middle of Manhattan next week. So you might

want to avoid trying to drive anywhere in Manhattan next week. It's UN week. And basically, all they do,

they don't really do much of anything at the UN. Have you ever been in the United Nations?

It's a dump in there. It's horrible in there. I know they got that general assembly room that

looks pretty impressive. But the rest of the place, it looks like an airport from

1962. Whenever they built this thing, I think it was 1948. I don't think they've done a thing to

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