York Post the store has already had to lay off workers.

Naturally, when Mayor Bill de Blasio informed reporters a week after the election, "I will not tell you that Gucci and Tiffany are my central concerns in life," it didn't sit well with local merchants and politicians. Since then, de Blasio's Department of Small Business Services has tried to patch things up by arranging scheduled deliveries with the NYPD, and reducing the footprint of barriers on West 56th Street west of Fifth Avenue. The NYPD and Secret Service also agreed to a request to reopen the front entrance to Tiffany, which had been blocked, and last week, in the biggest concession to date, to reopen one lane of car traffic on West 56th between Fifth and Sixth avenues.

"Infrom local precincts around the city. De Blasio and a host of other politicians have called for the federal government to reimburse the city for the $35 million or so they estimate it'll cost to protect Trump's family and property leading up to the inauguration. Thus far House Republicans have set aside just $7 million.

It's not entirely clear what the next four years will look like security-wise. The security apparatus grows dramatically when the president-elect is in town, and though in theory he will soon call the White House home, he has said his wife Melania will stay at their penthouse apartment until their 10-year-old son Barron "finishes school," and aides have indicated that Trump hopes to return to New York on weekends while president. He also gets