With 1st lady and son gone, security eases up at Trump Tower

After Trump was elected president on Nov. 8, security around his namesake tower on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue ramped up dramatically, even including a fleet of heavy sanitation department trucks filled with sand to wall off the front of the building.

The trucks were gone after only a couple days, but what remained was a maze of barricades and checkpoints, manned by scores of uniformed police officer under the supervision of a mobile command center.

Tom Cusick, the president of the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District, a merchants' group, said the situation improved after Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration and improved further after Trump's wife and their young son moved out of the 58-story building this month.

[...] that the president's wife and youngest son have left, police spokesman J. Peter Donald said that some officers who were needed "to move members of the immediate first family around town are no longer required."

Visible security measures at the Fifth Avenue entrance to Trump Tower on Tuesday included metal and concrete barricades and two New York Police Department officers armed with machine guns, but tourists moved freely in and out of the building.