Exit polls are expected to be released any minute.
Hillary Clinton has been spotted leaving her home in Chappaqua, New York, for midtown Manhattan, where she hopes to celebrate victory later tonight.
Trump will also host an event a few blocks away, and authorities have beefed up Election Day security for Trump by parking dump trucks filled with sand outside his Trump Tower building on Fifth Avenue.
A sanitation truck is parked outside Trump Tower in New York City on election day November 8, 2016. (AFP/ DOMINICK REUTER)
Police said Tuesday that similar precautionary measures were being taken at other sites around midtown Manhattan where Trump and Clinton plan to spend election night.
Authorities say the heavy trucks could block an attempted car bombing. They say there are no confirmed terror threats.
The NYPD had previously said it will deploy more than 5,000 police officers to keep order on election night. The deployment also includes police helicopters, mobile radiation detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs.
— with AP
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