Tonight from 11 pm-2 am, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel will be closed for the elephant walk from Queens into Madison Square Garden for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Each year, the elephants and other animals and circus performers arrive in New York via train and then walk through the tunnel and across town on 34th Street to the Garden. Usually the elephants show up before midnight. I saw the police setting up barricades on the curbs all along 34th Street this morning in preparation. There’s usually quite a crowd, including animal-rights protesters, so you may want to get there early, though if it rains tonight as predicted, the crowd might not be so bad.

If you go and take pictures, let us know in the comments!

image by Gabe Gross from last year’s elephant walk
via Gothamist