The Grand Tier, a new building on 65th Street and Broadway, has taken forever to complete. It's already late (a sign last spring said that the new Bed Bath & Beyond was coming "summer 2004"), and it doesn't look close to opening.

Anyway, whatever it takes to finish the job has created an unloading area on 65th just east of Broadway, making an already narrow street barely passable.

This has created massive gridlock extending in every direction but south from Lincoln Square. First, traffic heading east on 65th Street is getting stuck across Broadway and Columbus Avenues. This, in turn, is creating a long line of stalled vehicles north up Columbus Avenue, through 66th Street and beyond. That is preventing traffic heading west on 66th Street, from Central Park West, from moving. Vehicles heading northwest up Broadway are also screwed because they can't cross 65th Street and head up beyond the intersection. Same for people heading southeast on Broadway, too.

There are probably also delays at 66th and Central Park West and a block south at 65th.

In all my time near the Lincoln Center acoustic canyon, I have never heard so much honking.