NEW YORK (CBS) ? The New York City Police Department is pulling out all the stops to protect Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to New York next week. From rooftop snipers to hovering helicopters, it will all resemble the security operations used to protect the president.
It's an operation that will involve virtually the entire NYPD. And if you're trying to move around Manhattan when the pope is here, it will affect you, too.
It begins for us next Friday with the papal arrival and a speech at the United Nations right at the start of the business day. As a city, this is when we'll feel the biggest traffic impact because the pope will leave the U.N. and visit both the Park East Synagogue on 67th Street and Fifth Avenue, and St. Joseph's Church on East 87th before retiring to the papal residence on 72nd Street. It will be like several things we've seen before.
Dr. Alan Cairns | 8/3/2009
