Police, secret service agents and plainclothes officers swarmed the area, a hive of activity that houses a rail, subway and bus terminal as well as the 20,000-capacity ‘MSG’ arena.

“We hope people will be happy on November 6,” the day after the vote, said Salvador, 70, a retired university professor from Barcelona, ​​as he and his wife mingled with Trump supporters.

“We wanted to come and see, for me it’s interesting. Some people assume we’re against America — but that’s just left-wing politics in Europe,” he said before heading to the airport to return home.

Some tourists stumbled into the melee, checking map apps to find out how to escape, while their children surveyed the scene.

Fifty-five-year-old Democratic supporter Laura, who works in the lifestyle sector, brought her Trump-supporting son to the rally “and then we can talk about it and discuss it later,” she said.

“I don’t think all Trump people are bad,” she said. “Actually, people are a lot more normal than we thought they would be.”