NEW YORK -- For days, electronic signs on the FDR Drive, the Major Deegan, the West Side Highway and the Grand Central Parkway have carried warnings, alerts and reminders: "Expect delays" ... "Leave extra time" ... "Avoid Manhattan" ... "Take mass transit." We are in the midst of a week of travel paralysis here in the Big City. Rush-hour nightmares will extend the "hour" to 120 minutes -- with luck. Grand gridlock is a given.
It is New York City at the best of times and the worst of times. Two tales of a city. Today is Yom Kippur; it thins the traffic.