g. There’s a strange late-September week in New York every year: U.N. Week. It’s when the United Nations General Assembly is in session, and last week was the big week this year. Many streets on the east side of town (the United Nations is located on the far east side of Manhattan, along a several-block stretch around 45th Street) are blocked off, and for larger ones a special lane is barricaded so police vehicles and cars with diplomatic plates can come and go quickly. Security is quite tight. On Friday evening, I counted 106 police officers (and who knows how many plain-clothes officers I missed) in a 10-block walk along Second Avenue.
United Nations General Assembly. Strange.