Why must the public pay for her wedding?

Southwick, Mass.: Friday night, July 3, Midtown Manhattan was effectively shut down so Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce could get married at Madison Square Garden. Black SUVs jammed the streets around 31st St. for hours, barricades went up and regular New Yorkers trying to get home from work or catch a train got funneled around a private party for roughly 1,000 A-listers.

I get it — it’s a big story, a “wedding of the year.” But somewhere in the coverage of custom Dior gowns and Stevie Nicks sound checks, nobody’s asking the obvious question: Who signed off on tying up a city block of Midtown on a Friday night for a private celebrity event, and did anyone consult the people who actually live and work there? This is exactly why ordinary people are fed up. The rich get the VIP suite, the fast pass to skip the theme park line, the shut-down city block — they get to inconvenience everyone else as a matter of course. A $26 million charity donation is generous, but it doesn’t buy back the hours residents lost stuck behind barricades. If they wanted a private, secure wedding, they own estates plenty big enough to host one without closing down part of Manhattan.

Nobody begrudges Swift and Kelce their big day, but affluence shouldn’t buy the right to commandeer public streets while ordinary residents eat the inconvenience.

Flushing: I just wanted to voice my displeasure regarding the broadcast by NBC of the NYC fireworks. Instead of being treated to a view of them, we were subjected to a garbage show concert and way too many commercials. Thanks for destroying a beautiful thing. If I wanted to watch........

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