President Obama has an unwelcome holiday gift for New Yorkers � he�ll be coming to Midtown the same day the streets will be impossibly clogged by the Rockefeller Plaza tree-lighting ceremony. He has picked Wednesday, one of the busiest gridlock-alert days of the year, to descend on the area with his motorcade for a fund-raiser and party.

While throngs squeeze into the blocks around Rockefeller Center, the president and his entourage will be just a few blocks away at the Sheraton New York Hotel.

It�ll be the double whammy of all traffic nightmares.

A city official said 48th, 49th, 50th and 51st streets between Fifth and Sixth avenues will be subject to closures for the tree lighting.

But that doesn�t include the additional closings that come with a presidential motorcade that will make its way to the hotel on Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street.

Obama will be attending a fund-raiser held by the LBGT community at 7:30 p.m., followed by a holiday reception billed as a thank-you to his early supporters.

The New York Republican State Committee criticized his decision to host an event during the tree lighting, which a city official said was scheduled as far back as August

(Source: NY Post)