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NEW YORK — Pop superstar Taylor Swift’s wedding to three-time Super Bowl winner Travis Kelce will be a days-long event involving street closures, hundreds of VIPs, a special police detail and taxpayer-funded security measures, according to a source with knowledge of the event.
The NYPD is preparing to lock down a city block outside Madison Square Garden in the heart of Manhattan.
The source detailed an event spanning multiple days of setup, festivities, and breakdown, with 1,000 guests expected to attend — all small crowd for the venue, and for the star players, but many of them are described as “high profile” and “VIP” by the police department.
Swift and Kelce have been secretive about the guest list itself, and police have been advised to expect large crowds and paparazzi outside, according to the source.
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Guests have reportedly received individual watermarked invitations in an effort to discourage leaks, TMZ reported previously. There has even been a mystery surrounding the wedding’s location for weeks.
About 100 people were invited to a rehearsal dinner that will also take place at the Garden an evening before the big day, the source said.
New York authorities will shut down West 31st Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues all day on July 3 — less restrictive than the shutdowns for the NBA Finals, which the New York Knicks won earlier this month. Those closures extended for multiple blocks surrounding MSG.
On the wedding day, guests will arrive at a secure reception tent as the cocktail hour kicks off, so they can enter away from prying eyes.
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The ceremony is scheduled for the evening with the reception running into the early morning of July 4, according to the source, and reports suggest there will be A-list performances along the way.
Roughly 10 blocks to the north, revelers will be ringing in the United States’ 250th birthday in Times Square, according to the organizers of America 250 — with a ball dropping eight times, marking midnight in every time zone where the country has territory.
The days-long festivities have been sponsored and approved by New York City’s Street Activity Permit Office, which is part of the Mayor’s Office of Citywide Event Coordination and Management.
The NYPD is expected to provide taxpayer-funded security and traffic control.
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The New York Post’s Page Six has reported that the wedding bash will feature performances from Stevie Nicks and Tim McGraw and be “bigger than the Met Gala.”
The annual Metropolitan Museum of Art fundraiser generates tens of millions of dollars for the organization and also receives security assistance from the NYPD and New York City’s Sanitation Department.
In a photo obtained by Fox News Digital Monday, a large truck was seen backing into a loading bay at the MSG, where workers took out large items concealed by black plastic sheets.
The NYPD did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The venue falls within the NYPD’s Patrol Borough Manhattan South, whose commanding officer was reassigned last week amid an internal affairs corruption probe.
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Fox News’ Janelle Ash contributed to this report.
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