Sorry I don't know how to link back to my original post from #713, but I'm now reporting back on my post in that thread regarding an unusual NYPD shutdown of the streets around the Plaza Hotel due to a VIP arrival.

I just went out of the office on my way home, and the street is now closed off to both vehicle and pedestrian traffic. NYPD counterterrorism and Secret Service are there in force, with rifles and bomb detection checkpoints.

I asked a couple of the employees at my building who the VIP is, and they said, "Some guy from Israel."