Donald Trump will be holding an Election Night 'victory party' at a Manhattan hotel just 20 blocks from Hillary Clinton's rival celebration.

And what is even stranger is that Trump has snubbed his own hotel and booked the event at the Hilton Midtown.

So while the Democratic candidate will be hosting a party - complete with fireworks - at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center on West 34th Street, her great adversary will be partying with the Republican tribe over on West 54th Street.

Cheek by jowl: Manhattan will be where it is all happening on Election Night. If Donald Trump wins expect the Hilton Midtown to be rocking and the fireworks in the Hudson River to be a damp squib

It is not clear why Trump and his running mate Mike Pence have chosen a Hilton hotel rather than his own 52-story Trump International on Central Park West.

The last time both candidates were from the same state was in 1944.

Then it was New York again but the ailing President Franklin D. Roosevelt - who died three months after his inauguration - was not well enough to party, and the beaten candidate, Governor of New York, Thomas Dewey, had little to celebrate.

It emerged this week that Mrs Clinton has planned a two-minute fireworks display which could start as early as 9.30pm local time, only 30 minutes after the polls close in New York and hours before voters cast their final ballots on the West Coast.

Trump has chosen to hold his Election Night party at the Hilton Midtown (pictured), rather than his own swanky Trump International Hotel

The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll has Hillary Clinton (left) six points ahead of Donald Trump (right) with less than a week to go until polling day

Mrs Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, are both planning to base themselves in New York on November 8.

She is a former New York Senator and her daughter Chelsea lives in the city with her husband, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.

Queens-born Trump also has roots in the city and made much of his fortune and fame in Manhattan and in nearby Atlantic City.

But New York state has voted Democrat in every presidential election since Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide victory.

Fireworks displays are common in New York to celebrate Independence Day but those planned by the Hillary Clinton campaign would be the first time one would be used for an election victory party

Clinton is still ahead in the polls but Trump has been closing the gap in recent days and presidential elections are notoriously hard to call - meaning that fireworks display may have to be cancelled.

In 1948 President Harry Truman was famously photographed holding a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune which had gone to press with the headline 'Dewey Defeats Truman'.

The Republican Dewey - who had lost to FDR four years earlier - had been the hot favorite to beat Truman but the incumbent won one of the closest elections ever.

In 1948 Republican Thomas Dewey was the hot favorite to beat the incumbent, Harry Truman, but Truman (pictured) reveled in the press getting it wrong

More recently, in 2000, Vice President Al Gore thought he had the election in the bag until the infamous hanging chads in Florida gave it to George W. Bush.

With a week to go in the campaign Mrs Clinton has found herself and her emails back in the spotlight again and Trump is surging in some polls as a result.

The Post says an FDNY memo - ironically sent out on Friday, the same day FBI director James Comey made his intervention - ordered its Marine 1 company to provide protection for the fireworks show.