Selfie tower: Trump’s home becomes NYC’s hottest backdrop
But speaking outside Trump Tower following his meeting with the president-elect Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he was not especially concerned about swanky NY businesses. Trump’s preference for the familiar is threatening to plunge this already gridlock-prone area into chaos as the holiday season gets underway.
David Chang, who owns three restaurants near Trump Tower-Má Pêche, Fuku+, and Milk Bar-took to Twitter to express his concerns about how the increased security was hurting local businesses. This year’s display will feature a picnic in Central Park, a portrait of Rockefeller Center and a silhouette of the Manhattan skyline along the Hudson River.
After a radical and divisive election campaign, police acted quickly to protect president-elect Donald Trump from those not happy with his win.
The section of Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower will remain open to pedestrians, passenger vehicles and buses, but not trucks, Politico reported.
On Nov. 9, 2016, just a day after Trump won the presidency, police officers install concrete barriers around his home, New York’s Trump Tower. Throngs of tourists walked into the Abercrombie & Fitch store, seemingly uninterested in the dark glass building across the street, where the largest national story of the moment was unfolding.
For his part, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio does not seem to be anxious with the luxury retailers. And it might only get worse.
What happens after the inauguration will depend on how the new president divides his time between his high-rise apartment and the White House, officials said. Jeff Sessions, a possible nominee for attorney general or secretary of defense, who said, “Steve Bannon is a powerful intellect and a thoughtful leader and consistently provides good advice”.
Trump Tower has always been a magnet for millionaires, a mecca for tourists, and a monument to one man’s need to put his name on everything.
Pedestrian traffic at nearly any time of year is heaviest in Midtown, with numerous tourists seemingly first-time walkers. The elevators at Trump Tower in New York City have become world famous as a series of famous people and politicians have been seen going into them. “He’s a man who likes a lot of input from a lot of people, and he’s someone who has an incredible instinct for the American people”.
And Thanksgiving is still six days away.