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The president is in town, and New Yorkers know what that means -- street closures, barricades, and lots of cops. Get used to it, he's for a few days. Marianne McCune has more.
He came Monday and did the Late Show with David Letterman and he's staying through Thursday, when he heads up the United Nations Security Council meeting. In between, President Barack Obama has a predictably busy schedule - today, the UN climate summit and the Clinton Global Initiative - former President Bill Clinton's attempt to link do-gooders with power-holders. Tomorrow, Obama addresses the UN General Assembly. He's got a slew of side meetings with foreign leaders - such as the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian Authority's President. Also - Sub-Saharan African leaders, UN peacekeepers, Russia, China, Japan. He's staying at the Waldorf Astoria. You can venture to midtown to try to catch a glimpse, but leave time for traffic.
For WNYC, I'm Marianne McCune
Marianne McCune is a staff reporter for New York Public Radio (WNYC 93.9FM/AM820) and contributes regularly to National Public Radio and Public Radio International. She thinks of the New York Metropolitan Area as the center of the world because that's how she covers it: more than a third of New York residents were born in another country and Marianne reports on the resulting cultural, economic, and political links between New York/New Jersey and almost everywhere else on earth.
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