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As we detailed earlier, leading French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, is in New York for an unexpected visit. While she has no public agenda to meet with Donald Trump, she has just been spotted there drinking coffee. "Le Pen, who leads in the latest opinion poll for the presidency, is making a private visit to New York, her campaign chief of staff, David Rachline, said in a text-message exchange. He declined to say if she would meet publicly with President-elect Donald Trump or anyone from his entourage." Well she is in Trump Tower, grabbing coffee... As we noted earlier,...

Trump Tower is reportedly being evacuated, according to the pool reporter covering the president-elect. Tony Gatto, assignment editor at WPIX TV channel 11, sent an email reporting the possible evacuation.

Too many times these days, the mainstream media will jump on a story before knowing any of the facts to gain political advantage points. Famed Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer used and abused the so-called "dishonest media" earlier this month by straight up lying. According to Politico, Switzer was shopping with his family in New York City when he passed by Trump Tower and decided to go in. "All the media people said, 'Coach what are you doing here,'" Switzer said. "I told them I was here to see the president like everyone else."> However, Switzer only went upstairs, bought...

Froufrou Fifth Avenue resembles a police state. Officers wielding gigantic guns guard Trump Tower, where President-elect Donald Trump conducts all transition business, and soon lots of presidential business, too. Shoppers patronizing the stores, cafes or public gardens inside must endure layers of security screening. Streets and sidewalks are barricaded; traffic is snarled; and costumed buskers milk money from the looky-loos obstructing the entrances to Gucci and Tiffany. The challenges of securing this 58-story building in a high-density neighborhood will, by Inauguration Day alone, drain $35 million of local taxpayer money. Who knows the additional costs to commerce and property values?

Video: A homeless woman has released a video stating that she is a “Squatter” living in Trump Tower for the past nine years. She claims that when Mr. Trump found out about her he said she could stay for free. He also makes sure that she gets three meals a day, and a delivery of fresh flowers once a week.

<p>The driver blew past the protected area on Fifth avenue and sped away until he was caught at a red light.</p> <p>The suspect is 44-year-old Carlos Arana, the New York Daily News reported.</p> <p>An Officer eventually caught up with Arana and demanded he exit the truck.</p>

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will meet with President-elect Donald Trump Tuesday, according to pool reports.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Latest on the presidential recount efforts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (all times local): 12 p.m. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein says her efforts to force recounts in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are "about ensuring that all votes are counted and that voters can trust the system." Stein made the comments Monday outside of Trump Tower in New York City. The news conference had a circus-like atmosphere, as some of President-elect Donald Trump's supporters heckled Stein...

Members of the “NYC Revolution Club” burned American flags outside Trump Tower last night. This is a perfect example of the sort of left wing radicals who were silent during eight years of Obama but will be suddenly active again for the next four to eight years while Trump is president. A group of far left activists set the American flag ablaze outside the Trump Tower after President-Elect’s tweet saying flag-burners should lose citizenship or even face jail. ‘Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship...

MANHATTAN (CNN)– Tiffany, the iconic jewelry retailer, said on Tuesday that sales in the U.S. were hurt by all the chaos surrounding its flagship store on New York City’s 5th Avenue, which just so happens to be neighbors with Trump Tower. While Tiffany didn’t mention the President-elect by name, it was clear what Tiffany was referring to when it said that there has been “some adverse effect on traffic” at the 5th Avenue location due to “the impact of recent election-related activity.” Tiffany added that there was “softness” at this store and warned that sales could be hit again in...

Go to Google maps and search NYC Trump Tower. "Dump Tower" Use Bing instead?

The Secret Service is in negotiations to take over two floors of New York's Trump Tower which could cost more than $3 million a year, according to a report. The agency and the NYPD allegedly plan to run a command post out of the gaudy gold tower where Donald Trump's wife Melania and their son Barron will continue to live during the first year of his presidency. Around 250 Secret Service agents and cops will be based on two continuous floors - at least 40 floors below Trump's $90 million penthouse apartment, the New York Post claims. full title....................................The Secret...

No Media Safe Space in Sight Aside from two unidentified sources who supposedly high-tailed it to the New York Post , and grousing in the pubs, there have been no major mainstream media reports on how network bigwigs were ‘mistreated’ by big, bad Donald J. Trump at his first post-election meeting with the media yesterday; no splashy headlines about how he blatantly threatened them. There is no proof Trump threatened them, because what really happened is that they felt intimidated by him.

CSPAN pool feed from the lobby of Trump Tower with sporadic interviews and comments from Trump staff and visitors. Replays of specific comments may be available on the CSPAN site.

Donald Trump is a creature of New York. He ran against Washington and called it “a swamp.” During his campaign, he often flew home late at night so he could wake up in his own bed. His 10-year-old son is enrolled in a Manhattan private school. So it’s no wonder Trump is reportedly considering spending time in New York whenever he is able — presumably on weekends. If so, his home, in the penthouse of Trump Tower, on W. 56th Street and Fifth Avenue, will be the epicenter of an iron curtain that will wall off much of Midtown from...

Donald Trump, the first New York City kid to become president since FDR, will also be the first commander-in-chief to move to the White House from an apartment. True, his 30,000-square-foot, gilt-slathered Trump Tower penthouse is no ordinary pad, but the fact that he lives in the innermost heart of what you might call the inner city means that security arrangements don’t just inconvenience a few neighbors; they screw up a sizable chunk of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue in the 50s is almost always clotted with pedestrians and cars, and this time of year it becomes even more congested as department...

In another sign 2016 is a year unlike any other, President-elect Donald Trump has teamed up with TMZ creator Harvey Levin for a TV special. Instead of stopping Trump at an airport like TMZ does with other celebrities and politicians, Levin got a tour of the president-elect's Trump Tower suite.

Japan's PM Shinzo Abe has said he has "great confidence" in US President-elect Donald Trump and he believes they can build a relationship of trust. Mr Abe described the 90-minute meeting in Trump Tower, New York, as "candid", with a "warm atmosphere".

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has told US President-elect Donald Trump that the city is “fearful” of his incoming administration. De Blasio said he expressed concerns about Trump’s policies towards illegal immigrants. After visiting Manhattan’s Trump Tower on Wednesday, where the billionaire president-elect is building his team to lead the country, de Blasio said he would do all he can to prevent the large-scale deportation of immigrants. Vowing to obstruct Trump’s campaign pledge to expel millions of undocumented immigrants, the liberal mayor said the billionaire’s stance “flew in the face of all that was great about New York City.”...