New York City, New York

New York City
Hands down, the most diverse and exciting city in the United States. New York is the financial and the media center of the US. With a culture that was built with its diverse, large population - well over 8 million people - New York City is a tourist's heaven on earth. There were 39.6 million visitors to New York in 2004. with over 70,500 hotel rooms in New York City, there is something for everyone. The top 10 tourist attractions in New York City are:
1) Empire State Building
2) Statue of Liberty
3) Grand Central Terminal
4) Rockefeller Center
5) Ellis Island Immigration Museum
6) Staten Island Ferry
7) American Museum of Natural History
8) Guggenheim
9) Metropolitan Museum of Art
10) Museum of Modern Art

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About New York City
New York City has literally thousands of tourist attractions. From the Museums, to sporting events, to theartre, New York can really offer something for everyone. Other popular attractions in NYC include Broadway, Wall Street, The Bronx Zoo, Yankee Stadium, Coney Island; Macy's (the world's largest store); Central Park (843 acres); the United Nations; the 9/11 Memorial; Radio City Music Hall; and Madison Square Garden.

Three major airports support the city with the largest number of visitors coming form the United Kingdom last year. (just over 870,000). On any given day, there are between 60-90 film productions of some sort being shot in NYC. Look for yourself in the next movie you see!

A little trivia to prepare you for your visit… New York City is known also as the Big Apple because in the 1920s, a sportswriter for the Morning Telegraph named John Fitzgerald overheard stable hands in New Orleans refer to NYC's racetracks as "the Big Apple." He named his column "Around the Big Apple." Later, jazz musicians adopted the term to refer to New York City, and especially Harlem, as the jazz capital of the world. One musician was quoted as saying, “There are many apples on the trees of success but when you pick New York City, you pick the big apple”.