The UN General Assembly is taking place in New York City this week. Protective measures are heavy, with barricades surrounding the UN building and boats protecting the water.
and the Long Island City section of Queens, the Coast Guard also has teams boarding ships that arrive in the ports of New York and New Jersey.Coast Guard
ships, two helicopters and 12 law enforcement boarding teams." Weist said via email."These assets and crews are mobilized from units throughout the nation and deploy to NYC to support this critical maritime safety and security mission." While it's mostly a sheer drop from the U.N. grounds to the water, there's a Coast Guard cutter capable of breaking ice that's moored at a makeshift dock. That cutter, the Penobscot Bay, serves as a platform from which to oversee the Coast Guard operations on the East River.The land barriers are notoriously disruptive to New Yorkers, and the summit similarly rocks the boat on water.
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