It's Mark Simone, Mr. New York, on 710 W.O.R. Hey, this is actually the first gridlock

alert day of the season. Gridlock alert day. What the hell is every other day? So it's the

travel for Thanksgiving stuff beginning today. They say between 1 and 7 p.m. will be the most traffic.

Same thing tomorrow, between 1 and 7 p.m. Tomorrow, even bigger, gridlock. Now, a lot of people

leaving by going to the airport, and the problem at JFK, it's under construction. So this is

today and tomorrow, you get enormous amount of travelers going through JFK,

but much of it under construction.

So expect huge delays at JFK.

Of course, Thursday, you got to parade.

It's supposed to rain all day Thursday.

That's going to affect things.

They'll probably hold back the crowds a size a little.

The balloons rain and wind.

They'll have to bring the balloons down instead of the normal height.

They'll hold, you know, shorter ropes, keep them really low.

So it won't quite look as nice.

Remember they had to do that a few years ago.

Yesterday, I noticed, you know, Sixth Avenue is where all the Christmas decorations are.

You got the tree at Rockefeller Center.

They took down the covering yesterday, and the tree is now fully exposed and open.

It's not lit up yet, so I'll have the tree lighting next week.

But along 6th Avenue, all those decorations, the big huge ornaments are up, the big candy canes,

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