UN-clogged streets with zero diplos

There is, perhaps, one upside to how the pandemic has affected the city — no UN General Assembly traffic.

The annual invasion of diplomats and protesters will be put on hold this year as heads of state from all over the globe do their business the way everybody else is doing theirs — via videocon-ference.

The Zoom diplomacy means no parade of presidential motorcades along First Ave., and no demonstrators to denounce their every action. The U.S. told UN member states that anyone who wanted to come had to self--quarantine for 14 days upon arriving in New York.

Only national diplomats already in New York will be present in the UN chamber.

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, made the decision to close the UN campus as early as March, even before Broadway or New York museums had shut their doors.

“The UN politically could not afford to become a hotspot within a hotspot that New York was becoming,” said Stephane Dujarric, a Guterres spokesman.

The 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly kicked off last week.

But the general debate doesn’t get going until this week. That usually brings with it street closures, traffic jams, protests — and boiling blood.

This time last year, city officials were urging New Yorkers to bike, walk or take public transportation to avoid the congestion.

Among the motorcades that will be missing from the East Side will be President Trump’s. The White House announced last week that the president will not attend the session.