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President-elect Donald Trump¹ says his family will not move into the White House as soon as he's inaugurated. His wife and young son will remain in New York City. For the Secret Service, that means setting up shop in one of the most expensive places on Earth. It also means renting space in a building that Trump partly owns. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE²: This is Fifth Avenue in Manhattan right in front of Trump Tower where Donald Trump lives with his family. There are a lot of stores here, and this time of year, it's always really crowded with tourists. The fact that the president-elect lives and works here has forced police to seal off the entire block so they can control who comes and goes.

Meanwhile, there are often protesters camped out nearby behind barricades³. For the Secret Service whose job it is to protect the president-elect and his family, controlling this part of town is an especially complex job.

JONATHAN WACKROW: It's very complicated. I mean, you know, most of our, you know, sites are not in the middle of a major city on a permanent basis.

ZARROLI: Former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow says the agency is now determining what its footprint will be. It's working with federal and local officials to set up a large intelligence and surveillance operation inside Trump Tower.

WACKROW: Essentially⁴ what you have to do is make Trump Tower as secure as the White House.

ZARROLI: To do that, the Secret Service has to obtain space within Trump Tower. And because Trump owns part of the building, he could make money off the very agencies who are there to protect him. The same is true at Trump's Florida resort Mar-a-Lago. Wackrow says this isn't unusual. The Secret Service often rent space from presidents and their families.

WACKROW: We've done it at Crawford, Texas. We do it at Chappaqua. We do it at a lot of facilities. Any time that the federal government is taking, you know, private space, you know, it's logical for there to be, you know, a rental⁵ fee or around that.

ZARROLI: The difference is that Trump lives in Manhattan, so renting space will be a lot more expensive. How much more? The Secret Service says it's determining what its needs are and didn't want to comment for this story, so we put the question to Stephen Siegel of the commercial real estate firm CBRE. He says Trump Tower is a good building.

STEPHEN SIEGEL: Perfectly⁶ good space, decent ceiling heights. Column spacing is good, so offices like this are easily laid out - lots of light and air.

ZARROLI: But Trump Tower is also a residential⁷ and retail⁸ building. Siegel says there isn't a lot of office space, so really big companies can't locate there. Plus many tenants¹⁰ like to put their own names on buildings, and Trump Tower is already named for Trump.

Siegel figures office space there would go for around $70 a square foot, compared to as much as $190 for a top property such as the GM building. Siegel also says there's another problem with Trump Tower.

S. SIEGEL: I don't think I could put a tenant⁹ in there that would be comfortable with the security measures that are required by the president-elect living there and having his offices there.

ZARROLI: Siegel says the fact that anyone entering the building will have to go through multiple checkpoints actually hurts the value of the property. The bottom line is Trump may make money off the presence of the Secret Service, but in the long run, having the agency there could cost him. Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 barricades   

路障，障碍物( barricade的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。
• Others died young, in prison or on the barricades. 另一些人年轻时就死在监牢里或街垒旁。

4 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

5 rental   

n.租赁，出租，出租业

参考例句：

• The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
• We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。

6 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

7 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

8 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

9 tenant   

n.承租人；房客；佃户；v.租借，租用

参考例句：

• The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.那名房客因未付房租而被赶走。
• The tenant is responsible for all repairs to the building.租户负责对房屋的所有修理。

10 tenants   

n.房客( tenant的名词复数 )；佃户；占用者；占有者

参考例句：

• A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
• Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。