Trump Tower's Neighbors Are Relieved as Barricades Come Down
Traffic choked by cement barricades. Sidewalks blocked by police checkpoints. Protest after protest clogging the streets. For more than four years, life in the shadow of Donald J. Trump’s namesake tower on Fifth Avenue has been one intractable snarl.
But last week, as Gloria Wan made her way past Trump Tower to the hair salon she owns on West 56th Street, she was startled to find her commute utterly unimpeded — most of the security measures that had been a permanent part of the block since Mr. Trump was elected in 2016 had vanished.
“I can’t find the proper words to describe — it was like breathing fresh air, with all the barricades gone,” Ms. Wan said, standing between the racks of wigs she created in her second-floor shop. “I kept looking: ‘Am I on the right block?’”
The police declined to explain the decision to pare back the security measures around the building. Some, like a barricade of cement chunks in front of the building’s black-and-gold gleaming entrance, are still in place.
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