US secret service wants two floors of NY Trump Tower for security

The federal agency and the New York Police Department plan to run a 24/7 command post out of the space that would be housed at least 40 floors below Trump's $90-million penthouse triplex.

US secret service wants two floors of NY Trump Tower for security
New York: The Secret Service is in talks with the Trump Organisation to take over two vacant floors at the cost of millions in the gilded 68-storey Trump Tower where the President-elect's wife Melania and their 10-year-old son will continue to live through the spring, a media report said.

The federal agency and the New York Police Department plan to run a 24/7 command post out of the space that would be housed at least 40 floors below Trump's $90-million penthouse triplex.

The Secret Service is eyeing two contiguous floors for over 250 agents and cops, sources said. The first 26 floors of the glass-clad skyscraper are commercial tenants while the remaining levels are apartments.

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