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[Guevara]

The NYPD and the Secret Service are negotiating how to secure Trump Tower, the President-elect’s home and headquarters, with measures that could include shutting down Fifth Ave.

The two agencies are scheduled to meet Thursday to develop plans to keep troublemakers at bay, according to a police source, who said the Secret Service wants to keep traffic off the busy avenue whenever Trump is in town.

But top brass in the Police Department have argued that shutting down even a portion of one of the city’s major avenues would be a nightmare that “can’t happen.”

“It’s a negotiation,” the source said. “Their job is to keep the President safe. Our job is to keep the President safe, but also let the people who live and work and visit there have some semblance of normality. It won’t be complete normality, but it’ll be adjusted normality.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ave-shut-trump-tower-prez-elect-nyc-article-1.2873022

So... closed permanently, I guess.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

So just on the weekends then?

 

[FyreWulff]

Who are we kidding, it'd be permanent.

 

[badcrumble]

The entire avenue?

Fuck that. Close the block around the tower, don't let anyone in to patronize his businesses and kick everyone out of the hotel, and that's it. The Secret Service and NYPD have no obligation to keep his business empire profitable.

 

[entremet]

I'm so happy I don't work in Manhattan anymore lol.

 

[Escape Goat]

Jack Bauer is always 5 minutes away. Everything will be fine.

 

[wesleyshark]

It won't start as a permanent thing but give it a year and he'll be there 75% of the time. Year 2 and beyond it'll be 99% of the time.

 

[Damaniel]

Simple: he gets no access to Trump Tower until his term is up. Elections have consequences.

 

[PrivateWHudson]

The entire avenue?

Fuck that. Close the block around the tower, don't let anyone in to patronize his businesses and kick everyone out of the hotel, and that's it. The Secret Service and NYPD have no obligation to keep his business empire profitable.

Sounds like the best solution.

 

[Shanlei91]

RIP Pokemon Go

 

[Marion Cobretti]

I can't even imagine what closing down 5th Ave for that long would mean. That's pretty fuckin nuts.

 

[LiK]

Demolish the Trump Tower. It's an eye sore anyway.

 

[Heshinsi]

Is there any law in your country that states the president has to live in the White House?

 

[Jag]

Simple: he gets no access to Trump Tower until his term is up. Elections have consequences.

I don't think you understand how this is going to work.

 

[darscot]

Or maybe he should not be a complete idiot and stay some place safe and designed for the president instead of fucking shit up for ordinary people. Oh wait...

 

[Username1198]

Lol the egomaniac is taking over a whole block. He must be feeling high af since he won.

 

[wesleyshark]

Is there any law in your country that states the president has to live in the White House?

Nope.

 

[Dreez]

Oh hell nah he better parachute in.

 

[djkimothy]

It's good to be king.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Lol the egomaniac is taking over a whole block. He must be feeling high af since he won.

My brother lived very close to Obama's house in Hyde Park. When we went to help him move in, we happened to choose a day when he was there. It was more than a block.

Is there any law in your country that states the president has to live in the White House?

No, but it's kind of assumed.

 

[AlphaSnake]

When Obama visits NYC, traffic stretched for miiiiiles. You could be 10 miles away in Douglaston Queens...and there was traffic all day because you simply couldn't go anywhere near Manhattan. The congestion was that awful. This is going to be a fucking nightmare for New Yorkers. And I'm glad to no longer be there.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Bridgegate all over again. Last I checked you can't dictate where someone wants to go. Trump doesn't own Fifth Ave. What a disgrace.

 

[johnny956]

Lol the egomaniac is taking over a whole block. He must be feeling high af since he won.

Him staying there is going to hurt business at Trump tower as secret service will have to be checking people coming and going into the tower. People will just avoid the hassle. So I say let him stay there as much as he wants, it'll end up hurting his own business

 

[SwiftDeath]

Reagan at least had the decency to go hide out on a ranch

 

[Muppet of a Man]

So Trump building is now the American Palace?

Alt-right Neo-Nazi Monarchy fetish come true...

 

[Fox Mulder]

Wouldn't this make people just leave trump tower?

 

[Escape Goat]

Reagan at least had the decency to go hide out on a ranch

They have Camp David when Presidents need to get away. Trump gunna Trump though.

 

[Shanlei91]

Him staying there is going to hurt business at Trump tower as secret service will have to be checking people coming and going into the tower. People will just avoid the hassle. So I say let him stay there as much as he wants, it'll end up hurting his own business

There will be an added value to stay at the hotel where the president lives.

 

[gazele]

I'm sure the people who live and work in Manhattan will be absolutely fine with this

 

[GK86]

What? Fuck that. Gonna be a traffic nightmare. As if new Yorkers don't hate this clown enough already.

 

[Pandora012]

I'm sorry, not really, fuck that

 

[Peltz]

I work in within a few blocks of Trump Tower. I hope it doesn't come to that.

 

[Dalek]

You've got to be kidding me.

 

[Darryl M R]

How much tax dollars will be wasted on this?

 

[PeskyToaster]

Is there any law in your country that states the president has to live in the White House?

No but it's the one with like missile defenses, bunkers, and stuff. The White House probably has like special connections to agencies and shit in case things happen and it's a million times more secure than Trump Tower.

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

I'd really hate to be in any sort of position of power in the Secret Service right now, between this and him wanting to go all over holding rallies.

 

[Curufinwe]

How much tax dollars will be wasted on this?

A drop in the bucket compared to the other ways Trump will piss the nation's revenue down the toilet.

 

[Skellig Gra]

lol I can't even imagine what the place would be like in the summer or around christmas time, as it is now its like walking through a rock concert.

 

[AbortedWalrusFetus]

I'm assuming they just mean to motor vehicle traffic?

 

[BlueTsunami]

Rural America laughs

 

[Jonnax]

No but it's the one with like missile defenses, bunkers, and stuff. The White House probably has like special connections to agencies and shit in case things happen and it's a million times more secure than Trump Tower.

Move it Trump Tower. America is gonna be a monarchy anyway.

 

[jmdajr]

New Yorkers keep taking the L.

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

Is this an ingenious ploy to make the country pay 'rent' for use of his own building, or is it because he can't host orgies if he stays at the White House?

 

[C.Mongler]

How about as a 'compromise' Trump stays at the place that was planned, built, and secured specifically for having one of the world's most powerful (and possibly hated) political figures live at? No? Well boo-fucking-hoo, perhaps you should have considered taking on a different responsibility then.

 

[mcfrank]

What are they gonna do to secure the apartments of the hundreds of other people who live in the tower? Seems like having the President in that close proximity to other people's apartments is a bad idea.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

the whole Ave?

 

[FStop7]

No fly zone, too?

LMAO Escape From New York is now real

 

[jmdajr]

What are they gonna do to secure the apartments of the hundreds of other people who live in the tower? Seems like having the President in that close proximity to other people's apartments is a bad idea.

When Obama came to Houston they literally shut down the highway just for him.

Having Trump stay constantly at Trump Tower is going to be a disaster.

 

[MogCakes]

I'm not sure the city can afford to close it just for Trump's sake.

 

[mercenar1e]

it wouldn't even be up for debate but the protesters have made it clear that something has to be done.