What to know about NYC’s many weekend street closures

The Manhattan St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday and the 2024 United Airlines NYC Half Marathon on Sunday will make this an especially hairy weekend to visit the city by car, the city Department of Transportation said. Major streets will be closed across the city, especially in Manhattan and Brooklyn

On Saturday, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Manhattan will march up Fifth Avenue starting at 11 a.m. Many Midtown streets between 43rd Street and 83rd Street will be closed, the release said.

On Sunday, the NYC Half Marathon will begin at 7 a.m. in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and run to Manhattan’s Central Park and Times Square, where the race will end, according to organizers’ website and the DOT. Flatbush Avenue, the Manhattan Bridge, FDR Drive and other major streets and avenues on the East Side of Manhattan and in Midtown will be closed, the release said. The race’s full route is available here.

The city Department of Transportation also publishes an extensive list of this weekend’s street closures on its website.

Saturday closures, according to the NYPD:

Manhattan St. Patrick’s Day Parade:

Formation:

• Vanderbilt Avenue between 43rd Street and 46th Street
• 43rd Street between Vanderbilt Avenue and 6th Avenue
• 44th Street between Vanderbilt Avenue and 6th Avenue
• 45th Street between Vanderbilt Avenue and 6th Avenue
• 46th Street between Vanderbilt Avenue and 6th Avenue
• 47th Street between Park Avenue and 6th Avenue
• 48th Street between Park Avenue and 6th Avenue

Route:

• 5th Avenue between 83rd Street and 43rd Street

Dispersal:

• 5th Avenue between 86th Street and 79th Street
• 79th Street between Park Avenue and 5th Avenue
• 80th Street between Lexington Avenue and 5th Avenue
• 81st Street between Lexington Avenue and 5th Avenue
• 82nd Street between Lexington Avenue and 5th Avenue
• 83rd Street between Lexington Avenue and 5th Avenue
• 84th Street between Madison Avenue and 5th Avenue
• Miscellaneous:
• 49th Street between Madison Avenue and Rockefeller Plaza
• 50th Street between Madison Avenue and…