You can access the array elements by it's index. The index for the last element in the array will be the length of the array-1 ( as indexes are zero based).
This should work.
var items: String[] = ["tom", "jeff", "sam"];
alert(items[items.length-1])
Here are a the options summarized together, for anyone finding this question late like me.
var myArray = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
// Fastest method, requires the array is in a variable
myArray[myArray.length - 1];
// Also very fast but it will remove the element from the array also, this may or may
// not matter in your case.
myArray.pop();
// Slowest but very readable and doesn't require a variable
myArray.slice(-1)[0]
It's not clear to me at what point TypeScript will start to support this (it's not working for me just yet) but it should be available soon I would guess.