been replaced in some places with metal sandwiching concrete, and a ring of garbage trucks has given way to roadblocks, bag-search checkpoints, metal detectors, and police command posts. Trump Tower, and to a lesser extent Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle, has become a fortress.



Legend:

Red: Roads blocked to car traffic or, if specified otherwise, public spaces fully closed after 9/11

Yellow: Planned road closures around the new World Trade Center site

Orange: Security measures restricting public space around Trump properties

Purple: Parks and privately owned public spaces affected by security measures

Blue: Trump-owned, managed, or licensed properties

"It's not good," a hot dog vendor named Sam said, shaking his head and turning the dogs in the water of his cart on a corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street on Thursdayevening. "This year is fucked up."

Sam, who declined to give his last name, citing danger in his home country of Egypt, said that he has been working the cart in Midtown for the last five years. On a typical night during the holiday season in years past, Sam said he made $1,000 a night, to be split with the cart's owner. Now, he said he averages $200 or $300. The day before we talked, an officer forced him to leave the corner at 9 p.m.—because of food cart turf wars, he cannot just up and move to another corner in the tourist-frequented area around Rockefeller Center—ending his shift three hours early.

"I have kids...The cart has been here for 17 years," he said, recalling the police interaction. "Why you