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A New York City bar owner says the street closures surrounding Taylor Swift\u2019s and Travis Kelce\u2019s wedding week cost his business thousands of dollars, after the NYPD implemented extensive street closures around Madison Square Garden for the couple\u2019s nuptials.<\/p>\n

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Michael O\u2019Brien, who co-owns O\u2019Brien\u2019s Bar & Grill on 31st Street directly across from the arena, said the bar typically draws up to 150 patrons on a given night but saw a fraction of that as barricades went up ahead of the Friday ceremony. \u201cYou\u2019ve wronged us; make it right,\u201d Mr. O\u2019Brien said in an interview with Us Weekly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr. O\u2019Brien said he reached out to the city, the mayor\u2019s office, the NYPD and representatives for both Ms. Swift and Mr. Kelce seeking some form of compensation or accommodation, but received no response. He proposed several alternatives, including renting out the bar to event crews or having the couple buy out the business for the week, according to the interview.<\/p>\n

The timing compounded his frustration, Mr. O\u2019Brien said, since the closures overlapped with the Fourth of July holiday, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and World Cup matches drawing tourists to the city \u2014 all of which he had expected to boost business.<\/p>\n

The bar\u2019s complaints came as the NYPD implemented extensive street closures around Madison Square Garden for the wedding weekend. Starting at 1 p.m. Friday, the department shut Seventh Avenue between 30th and 34th streets to vehicles, along with several cross streets near the arena, and closed pedestrian access on the west side of Seventh Avenue between 31st and 34th streets, according to the department\u2019s published logistics. Access to Penn Station beneath the Garden was also restricted, with commuters directed to alternate entrances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

City permitting records reviewed by The Associated Press showed the application for the event, filed under the subject line \u201cWedding Bells Are Ringing,\u201d requested full street closures for Friday and Saturday and was approved by the mayor\u2019s permitting office. The permit outlined a rehearsal dinner for about 100 guests Thursday evening followed by a main event Friday that could run until 4 a.m. Saturday with up to 1,000 guests. Mr. O\u2019Brien, who was also quoted in that report, called the scale of the closures \u201cridiculous\u201d and suggested the couple \u201cbuy out the local businesses instead of having us adversely affected.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ms. Swift and Mr. Kelce did not publicly confirm details of the wedding in advance, and representatives for the couple did not respond to press inquiries about the street closures, according to the AP. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch had acknowledged only that the department was \u201ctracking\u201d an event at the Garden without elaborating.<\/p>\n

The couple wed Friday evening at Madison Square Garden in front of roughly 1,000 guests. Ms. Swift, a singer and songwriter, has an estimated net worth of $2 billion, according to Forbes\u2019 real-time billionaires tracker.<\/p>\n

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