This checkpoint is always active. For years, the NYPD vehicle checkpoint in front of 120 Broadway The NYPD did not immediately comment on the checkpoint and the barriers. The NYPD uses the block-long checkpoint, between Pine and Cedar streets, to screen vehicles as they enter the Wall Street area. The NYPD refuses to comment further on this checkpoint.

Though the NYPD does search every commercial vehicle, copy their license plate and driver license info (most likely with Time/Date information to be entered into a database)