plugged into everything New York 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 fix it up since. It's one dumpy place in there. But all these world leaders come in and they

bring their wives and their girlfriends and their mistresses and their hookers and their kids and their families

and then they run all over Manhattan shopping and going to restaurants and going to Broadway

and doing it so they tie up traffic all next week it's going to be a nightmare if you go into the

finest stores in Manhattan next week you'll see uh all sorts of extra staff brought in. If you go

into Sachs or Bergdorf or any of these places, you'll see extra staff, a lot of extra salespeople

because they come in with the wives and they start buying like crazy. And each sale is like

...