Tag: Tourism
The shiny new One World Observatory at the WTC complex opened to the public on Friday. The sun was beaming down on hundreds of tourists anxious to get corralled along the building, and eventually to its top. Although ticket holders had scheduled times, the building was running way behind. It was around 3:30PM, an hour […]
Today, for the first time in Citi Bike’s two-year history, a sponsor has underwritten a day of free passes for anyone who wants to ride one of the slow blue bikes. From 12:01 AM to 11:59 PM on May 14, all a rider has to do is swipe a credit card and select a 24-hour […]
The number of tourists visiting New York City reached a record high last year with 56.4 million people visiting the city, up from its previous record of 54.3 million in 2013. Last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio increased spending on tourism promotion, and is considering doing so again this year, the New York Times reports. […]
Residents in New York’s Hudson Valley are at odds with the state government over the possibility of widening the existing power corridor that already rips through the bucolic landscape. New York’s Public Service Commission two years ago “worried about bottlenecks in the delivery of electricity from upstate generators to New York City and other downstate […]
Presumably, the City that Never Sleeps doesn’t require any introduction, but in case it does, New Yorkers now have Taylor Swift to represent them. She announced on Good Morning America that she’s been tapped as New York’s Global Welcome Ambassador for tourism. Keep in mind that Swift moved to New York in March, her only […]
Greenpointers, beware: busloads of midwesterner Girls fans may soon be swarming your neighborhood, jumping at the chance to see Hannah Horvath and crew’s homes, hangouts, and places of work. On Locations Tours, the company that brought you the Sex and the City sight-seeing trips, is planning a similar tour centered around Lena Dunham’s most famous creation. Destinations include Café […]
An American tourist broke off an entire pinkie off a 600-year-old Italian statue. What part of “don’t touch the art” do you not understand, people? Sadly, this long-standing rule of museum etiquette seems to be interpreted very loosely by visitors. Recently, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo guards spotted a man standing very close to the statue by Giovanni d’Ambrogio centuries ago. […]
Coney Island, for all its charm, has always been a bit of a tough sell for out-of-town tourists. The beach’s old-school aesthetic is a far cry from antiseptic Manhattan, for one thing, and getting there requires a long ride to the end of D, F, N, or Q. Recent development projects like the new Luna Park are […]
Artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm has made a series of images showing us exactly what it would like if some of the most popular tourist traps turned into a modern day version of Water World sans Kevin Costner. Lamm hopes that these illustrations will help raise public awareness about the impact of climate change. Umm, let’s go […]
In a year of a historically terrible storm, an Empire State Building shooting, questionable practices by the police department, handsy and racist Times Square mascots, an epically polluted waterway, several exotic animals running wild, hazardously mislabeled raw fish, a disgusting monster that washed up on the shores of the East River, record arrest numbers, a ban […]
