The cops were called at around 4.30pm on Friday after several bags containing cell phones and an unknown device were found on the building’s second floor, the New York Post reported.
Meanwhile, NBC New York reports that four portable batteries were found in the lobby of Trump Tower. A custodian who discovered the devices called 911.
The NYPD has now cleared the situation. Officials say sniffer dogs could not detect explosives.
It’s not yet clear why the devices were in the building; whether they were left behind by accident or by people with ulterior motives.
Traffic along Fifth Avenue has been partially shut down as authorities investigate.
The 58-story, 664-foot-high skyscraper on Fifth Avenue, was Donald Trump’s main residence before moving to the White House after the election.
The NYPD are investigating multiple suspicious packages at Trump Tower in New York City
Trump Tower also contains offices of the Trump family business. The headquarters of the Trump Organization is on the 26th floor. Trump’s family has spent little time in New York since taking office.
Today, the president and first lady Melania are currently at Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Trump has not yet commented on the bomb scare.
The incident occurred just one day after the president’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, announced he was willing to tell investigators that Trump had been aware of the now notorious meeting his son Donald Trump Jr., held with several Russians at Trump Tower in 2016.
The Tower was previously evacuated in December 2016 after a suspicious package sparked panic among the shoppers and visitors, who were filmed fleeing the building.
Police later revealed the ‘suspicious package’, left in the lobby, near the entrance to a Nike Town store, was in fact a backpack full of children’s toys.
The cops were also called out to the building in April that year after someone sent ‘suspicious white powder’ to what was then Trump’s campaign office on the fifth floor. The substance later turned out to be harmless.
This story is developing.
Trump Tower was home to President-Elect Donald Trump, his wife Melania and their son Barron (pictured together in April, 2010) before their move to the White House