Tourism

Tourism in Lower Manhattan is up 40 percent since 2008.

Residents blasted the Met's plans to add 400 chairs and 100 tables at its Fifth Avenue entrance.

Many said New Yorkers aren't rude, but don't bug them on their way to work.

The city reclaimed the dubious honor in a poll of  Travel + Leisure readers.

Bloomberg visited the Renaissance Hotel near Times Square to wish staffers a Merry Christmas. 

The city is on track to welcome 50 million visitors this year, breaking the city record.

Scores of guides with the city's largest sightseeing company are facing layoffs on Jan. 1. 

City Council is proposing new fines for illegal hotel repeat vioations that could soar up to $25,000.

Gray Line tour guides' union says the company plans to replace them with a recording to cut costs.

A revamped Roosevelt Island Tram celebrated its year anniversary with a 13 percent ridership spike.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that Occupy Wall Street protesters are damaging the city's economy.

Mayor Bloomberg announced that a new 4,000-passenger cruise ship will be docking in Manhattan starting in 2013.

Times Square tourists weren't about to let a storm bring them down as Hurricane Irene heads toward Manhattan.

A development company bought a parking lot on West 37th Street in the hopes of turning it into a hotel.

A new promotional video sponsored by the Downtown Alliance is being shown on Delta flights to highlight Lower Manhattan as a “world-class destination.”