the lobby of Trump Tower is accessible to the public from 8 a.m. A police spokesperson had confirmed on Twitter that the fire department had responded to the report of a suspicious package in the foyer of Trump Tower. The Associated Press contributed to this article. Suspicious package turned out to be a bag of toys. “We actually had them in his hands but because of everything we just had to leave,” she said. Apart from the brief evacuation, Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, where Trump Tower is located, was cleared in front of the building, and crowds were moved back. Trump was not at the tower and is currently in Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Maria Beckford, visiting New York from her native London, was in Niketown with her 13-year-old son looking to buy a pair of soccer cleats when she said they were told to urgently leave the store. All clear at Trump Tower following the earlier suspicious package in the lobby, Donald tweeted. In the days after a pressure cooker bomb exploded earlier this year in New York City, police responded to more than 800 calls of “suspicious packages.” After personnel at Trump Tower found what they believed to be a suspicious abandoned package they called the NYPD and FDNY who responded to the scene. Police receive about 42 reports every day of so-called suspicious packages, though that number can surge depending on current events. Trump Tower had to be partially evacuated this afternoon as the NYPD and fire department were calling in to investigate a suspicious package. Trump Tower, in addition to being the president-elect’s home and business headquarters, contains residences, restaurants, retail stores - and a lobby that by law is open to the public to visitors daily from 8 a.m. “Police were shouting and telling people to leave.” “It was hysteria,” said Andy Martin, a 16-year-old from the New York City suburb of Huntington. Shoppers and visitors to Trump’s namesake skyscraper described a chaotic scramble. His newly appointed press secretary, Sean Spicer, Tweeted that officials were “back to work” following the “false alarm.” President-elect Donald Trump lives in the tower and has his offices there, though he was at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida when the bag was discovered. Police clear the aea around the president-elects business headquarters in mid-town Manhattan. after examining the backpack left near the entrance to Niketown, a store in the building. Trump Tower cleared over suspicious package. Stephen Davis, the New York Police Department’s top spokesman, said the bomb squad gave the “all clear” around 5 p.m. Video posted online showed people running through the Manhattan skyscraper’s public lobby as uniformed police officers waved them toward the exits. Police receive about 42 reports every day of so-called suspicious packages, though that number can surge depending on current events. Images posted on the social networks show people running through the foyer of the building, which has become a tourist attraction since Trump won the November 8 election.A stray backpack prompted the partial evacuation of Trump Tower on Tuesday, though bomb squad technicians quickly determined the unattended bag contained children’s toys and was harmless. Trump Tower, in addition to being the president-elect’s home and business headquarters, contains residences, restaurants, retail stores and a lobby that by law is open to the public to visitors daily from 8 a.m.
Minutes later, however, the same official said that the "all clear" had been issued after the package had been inspected by the bomb squad.
that the "all clear" had been given after the package was found to be a bag containing children's toys.Ī police spokesperson had confirmed on Twitter that the fire department had responded to the report of a suspicious package in the foyer of Trump Tower. The New York Police Department announced shortly after 5 p.m.
Unofficial reports indicate that the fire department received a tip about a "suspicious package" in the building, located on 5th Avenue near 56th Street in Manhattan, Efe news agency reports. President-elect Donald Trump, whose residence and business offices are located in the building, is spending the holidays in Florida. New York: Police ordered Trump Tower to be evacuated on Tuesday after the discovery of a suspicious package, but the "all clear" was issued shortly thereafter, when the package was found to contain children's toys, media reports said.
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