The NYPD and FDNY rushed to Trump Tower following reports of a suspicious package in the atrium shortly before 4:30pm local time, the NY Post reported. “Please just cross,” he told a pedestrian who asked him a question. TRUMP Tower was evacuated today following the discovery of a suspicious package. On Madison Avenue, a police officer ordered city buses to turn west up the narrow streets. A rough cordon around the 58-story tower, which sits between 56th and 57th Streets, and its surroundings went into almost immediate play: Both Fifth and Madison Avenues were closed to traffic from 55th to 57th Streets as the investigation unfolded. In the rest of the nation’s capital, the discovery of a suspicious package does not usually cause serious traffic issues.Īt Trump Tower, the backpack was found by the Secret Service by the lobby entrance of the Niketown store, where a corridor leads into a public atrium, the authorities said. The authorities took that step temporarily in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing it was made permanent six years later, after the Sept. There, streams of visitors stop in front of the black iron fence to take pictures of the president’s home, as has occurred along Fifth Avenue, where the tower has become a tourist destination.īut that is where the similarities diverge: The 1600 section of Pennsylvania Avenue has been closed to vehicle traffic since 1995. The Secret Service regularly discovers packages left outside the White House gates, often along Pennsylvania Avenue.
In Washington, suspicious packages near the White House have become largely routine, and are rarely disruptive.
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