New York City is a major tourist destination, receiving over 50 million visitors annually who are drawn to attractions like Times Square, Central Park, the Statue of Liberty, Broadway theaters, and museums. Tourism is an important industry for New York City. Popular activities for visitors include seeing famous filming locations for TV shows and movies, seasonal events, and walking through iconic neighborhoods like Manhattan's Chinatown.

1. New York City

2. • Tourism is an important industry in New York City, which has
witnessed a growing combined volume of international and domestic
tourists – receiving approximately 49 million tourists in 2010, 51
million in 2011, and a record 54 million tourists in 2013.

3. • Major tourist destinations include
• the Empire State Building;
• Statue of Liberty;
• Ellis Island;
• Broadway theater productions;
• museums such as the Metropolitan Museum
of Art;
• greenspaces such as Central Park and
Washington Square Park; Rockefeller Center;
Times Square; the Manhattan Chinatown;
• luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison
Avenues;
• and events such as the Halloween Parade in
Greenwich Village; the Macy's Thanksgiving
Day Parade; the lighting of the Rockefeller
Center Christmas Tree; the St. Patrick's Day
parade;
• seasonal activities such as ice skating in
Central Park in the wintertime; the Tribeca
Film Festival; and free performances in
Central Park at Summerstage.

5. • New York City is one of the major film capitals of the
world, and tourists visit the scenes of TV shows and
movies such as Seinfeld, Friends, Sex and the
City, Saturday Night Live, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Miracle
on 34th Street, Godfather, and Taxi Driver.

6. Times Square
• Times Square is a major commercial intersection and a neighborhood in
Midtown Manhattan.
• Times Square – iconified as "The Crossroads of the World",The Center of the
Universe", and the "The Great White Way"– is the brightly illuminated hub
of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian
intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.

7. • According to Travel + Leisure
magazine's October 2011
survey, Times Square is the
world's most visited tourist
attraction, hosting over 39
million visitors annually.
Approximately 330,000 people
pass through Times Square
daily, many of whom are either
tourists or people working in the
area.

8. The Statue of Liberty
• The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is
a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the
middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York
City.
• The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and
dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United
States from the people of France.

9. • The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the
Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a
tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the
American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain
lies at her feet.
• The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a
welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

10. Central Park
• Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan in New York
City. The park was initially opened in 1857.
• In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a
design competition to improve and expand the park with
a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan.
• Construction began the same year, continued during the
American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.
• Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United
States.