With three major airports in the metro area, it's easy to get to New York City from any point in the world. Public transportation connects all of the airports to the rest of the city, offering visitors the option of taking the subway, city buses or taxis to get to their destinations.
Popular destinations include the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Central Park, Times Square, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, the Empire State Building and Broadway shows, just to name a few.
Double-decker buses circle the city offering hop on, hop off services. There are numerous boat tours that circle Manhattan, and many walking tours give visitors a detailed history of neighborhoods.
New York City hotels saw a record of 23 million room nights booked in 2008. The growing demand for hotels in the city is being met by new development in all of the boroughs.
There are more than 18,000 restaurants in the city, with hundreds of new ones opening each year. Among these, visitors can choose from almost every type of food imaginable, from global cuisine to new American fusion and, of course, the best pizza this side of the Atlantic.
The city offers a range of exciting activities for kids, from kid-friendly museums like the Met and the Natural History Museum to the zoos, including the Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo and the Bronx Zoo. There are aquariums at Coney Island and in the Bronx, and dozens of toy stores and kid-friendly restaurants around the city.
