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Associated Press

It is a rare celestial crossing that has both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump spending election night not only in the same city, but barely more than a mile apart in midtown Manhattan – and it is creating unprecedented security headaches for New York City.

Not since they sparred with each other on the debate stage have the Clinton and Trump orbits overlapped in this way.
Clinton is planning a big bash in a symbolically glass-roofed atrium that is part of the Javits convention centre.

Trump will be ensconced in a Hilton a mere 15 blocks away.
“Election day brings with it a unique set of challenges. For the first time in modern memory, both major party candidates will monitor the results here in New York and will have election night parties in midtown Manhattan,” New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill said.

More philosophical about the election was New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat. “It has been in many ways a challenging and painful year,” he told reporters. “It stained our democracy. [Election day] is the day when we get to make it right, when democratic process comes alive and people choose.”

The last time two presidential candidates were from New York was 1944, when Franklin Roosevelt won his fourth term, prevailing over New York Governor Thomas Dewey, but celebrations were subdued because of the second world war. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, live in the suburb of Chappaqua, where they moved in 1999 so that she could run for the US Senate.

The Queens-born Trump lives in a penthouse condominium atop the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
The election night jitters come in the midst of a heightened terrorism alert. A bomb that exploded in the Chelsea neighbourhood in mid-September injured 29 people. Federal officials have said they have received intelligence warnings of a terrorist threat from the al-Qaeda militant group.

Islamic State has also called on its supporters to attack election targets.
“Currently the credibility and the sourcing of that information is under investigation and ongoing with no new information since last week,” said James Waters, head of the Police Department’s counterterrorism bureau.


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Members of the New York Police Department's Counterterrorism Bureau stand watch outside Trump Tower in Manhattan. Photo: Reuters

Members of the New York Police Department's Counterterrorism Bureau stand near a cutout of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump outside Trump Tower ahead of the U.S. presidential election in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 7, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

New York City police arrest a woman after a commuter was pushed in front of a subway train as it arrived at a Times Square train platform in New York, New York, in this still image from video taken November 7, 2016. REUTERS/James Carman

An officer with the New York Police Department Transit Bureau K-9 unit walks through Times Square in New York, U.S., November 7, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

A police officer walks past television satellite trucks lined up outside of the Jacob Javits Center in New York, Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, as preparations continue inside for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's election night rally Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

New York City Police Department officers stand behind a police barricade at Times Square in New York, U.S., November 7, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

(161107) -- New York, Nov. 7, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Police patrols at the Times Square in New York, the United States, Nov. 7, 2016. The U.S. general election will be held on Nov. 8. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)

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