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Obama's Westchester trip a 2-day stop, includes wedding

President Barack Obama's trip to Westchester County will be a two-day affair.

After two Democratic National Committee fundraisers there this afternoon and a side trip to Rhode Island this evening, the president will head back to Westchester for the night so he can attend the wedding of his personal chef at a Pocantico Hills restaurant on Saturday.

Obama and the first lady will be at Blue Hill at Stone Barns on Saturday for the wedding of Sam Kass and MSNBC host Alex Wagner, Politico reported on Thursday. Kass is the the president's senior policy adviser for nutrition.

The president is flying into the Westchester County Airport this afternoon, before jetting off to Rhode Island around 5 p.m. He is expected to return to Westchester after that and stay a little over 24 hours before heading back to Washington, D.C., late Saturday.

Past presidents have stayed at the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, but a family spokesman said Obama is not a guest this time; the Rockefellers are summering in Maine.

Obama has apparently never dined at Blue Hill, but Michelle Obama was at the 80-acre Stone Barns Center for a fundraising brunch in 2012, speaking with 120 supporters. She also visited in 2010 with local schoolchildren and spouses of U.N. dignitaries. The couple dined at chef and co-owner Dan Barber's other restaurant, Blue Hill in Manhattan, in 2009.

Blue Hill at Stone Barns confirmed it was hosting a private event on Saturday, but declined to comment further.

Here's the rundown on the presidential visit(s):

• Obama will head from the airport to New Rochelle, where he'll spend about an hour at a 25-person fundraiser in the Premium Point area, New Rochelle Police Commissioner Patrick J. Carroll said. Expect slowdowns mostly on East Main Street going toward Larchmont coming off Interstate 95, Carroll said. Traffic will be stopped when the president's motorcade rolls in and out of town.

• East End residents and businesses have been advised that from noon until 6 p.m., there is no parking in posted areas on Main and Huguenot streets from Echo Avenue to Emerson Avenue and along Emerson. From 1:45- 4 p.m. there will also be intermittent closures on these roads.

• Obama next will travel to Purchase. He'll be attending a fundraising barbecue hosted by Robert Wolf, one of his biggest financial backers on Wall Street, at his Westerleigh Road home off Purchase Street. About 250 people will be there, including U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-Harrison.

• The New York State Thruway Authority says there will be brief road closures from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Interstate 684 between Purchase and Armonk, Interstate 287 between White Plains and Port Chester and I-95 between Pelham and Connecticut.

• After leaving Westchester later in the afternoon for Rhode Island, the president will be back mid-evening. Between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., road closures will impact I-684 between Purchase and Armonk, and I-287/Interstate I-87 from the Tappan Zee Bridge to Port Chester.

• Where the president will spend the night, or some of the next day, is not clear. His plane will leave late Saturday night from the county airport. Additional road closures should be expected.

Temporary flight restrictions have been issued by the Federal Aviation Administration for today and Saturday. While regularly scheduled commercial flights won't be significantly impacted, private carriers and local pilots will have contend with added obstacles including stops at "gateway" airports for security checks. There are also windows when no aircraft can take off or land.

The president's visit has forced Fly the Whale, a private charter company, to cancel flights, including some departing out of Westchester.

"It's the last thing we need. It's one thing when there's weather … but really, he had to come on the Friday before Labor Day?" Melissa Tomkiel, the company's president, said. "Our passengers are very unhappy about it. It's really inconvenient because all the other commercial fights are booked. It's hard to make plans this late in the game."

Tomkiel said her company will lose about $10,000 on flights that were canceled Friday, including sea plane service from the East River to the Hamptons.

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