traffic and just life in manhattan is pretty remarkable. all right, stephanie. reporter: so now they re beginning to move here. you see the convoy slowly edging off. this is not going to be a slow trip. you can imagine that after the incredible day that pope francis has had, the poor man probably just needs a little sleep. all right. i want to bring in now nbc news correspondent ron mott who is on 59th street and 5th avenue just up from where the pope departed st. patrick s cathedral. he is coming your way, ron. reporter: yes, he is coming this way. he is probably a good block and a half away. we re just at the corner of 59th street and 5th avenue, which of course is the start of central park. and the pontiff is heading up to the upper eastside, about a half a mile, chris, up on east 72nd street where he will take rest for the night.
reporter: so now they re beginning to move here. you see the convoy slowly edging off. this is not going to be a slow trip. you can imagine that after the incredible day that pope francis has had, the poor man probably just needs a little sleep. all right. i want to bring in now nbc news correspondent ron mott who is on 59th street and 5th avenue just up from where the pope departed st. patrick s cathedral. he is coming your way, ron. reporter: yes, he is coming this way. he is probably a good block and a half away. we re just at the corner of 59th street and 5th avenue, which of course is the start of central park. and the pontiff is heading up to the upper eastside, about a half a mile, chris, up on east 72nd street where he will take rest for the night. so i think the crowd here is significantly smaller than we saw for the arrival. and because so many people expected to see him in the popemobile and he goes by there s the fiat there.
compromises. and i think when you see the car that he s traveling around in you can t help but imagine that that was one of the compromises. but the other incredible thing, too, chris, to keep in mind is fifth avenue, one of the busiest streets in manhattan, has essentially been shut down in this city from about 2:00 in the afternoon until now and even later. and what that must do to the traffic and just life in manhattan is pretty remarkable. all right, stephanie. reporter: so now they re beginning to move here. you see the convoy slowly edging off. this is not going to be a slow trip. you can imagine that after the incredible day that pope francis has had, the poor man probably just needs a little sleep. all right. i want to bring in now nbc news correspondent ron mott who is on 59th street and 5th avenue just up from where the pope departed st. patrick s cathedral. he is coming your way, ron. reporter: yes, he is coming this way.