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Tourism

  • Voice Choices

    May 9, 2012

    MAKING TRACKS

    Take a walk on the High Line

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    NY Post Goes Fracking Crazy in Pro-Hydraulic Fracturing Editorial

    The Post is a bit beside itself this morning, unable to process the position of fracking opponents. It's not simply that the editorial board disagrees with them and published an opinion piece explaining why -- the board can't wrap its head around the fact that dissenting opinion should have weight ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Not in My Backyard! Brooklyn Residents Say New Hotel Will Bring Prostitution and Drugs to East Flatbush

    ​East Flatbush is a lovely neighborhood in Brooklyn -- but it's just not really a tourist destination. So if a developer is looking to open a hotel in the area, it can only mean one thing: Prostitution, drugs, and other bad, bad activity. Right?  This is the line of thinking behind a new not- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    New York Plans On Luring Young Tourists to the City

    New York is lookin' for youngins! And not just any run-of-the-mill youth: New York wants ones with money! (Well, ones with at least a little green to spend...) Anyway, NYC and Company, the city's tourism agency, is trying to get more members of the under-30 age group to visit the city and spend ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Record Number of Tourists Visited Lower Manhattan Last Year

    Lower Manhattan saw nearly 9.8 million tourists visit last year, a record number for an area revitalized by development and the World Trade Center site. Many of those were drawn here by the newly-opened September 11 Memorial, which has already attracted more than 1 million visitors in the four mon ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 15, 2012

    GRAPHIC CONTENT

    We heart Milton Glaser

  • Voice Choices

    January 11, 2012

    'Where's the Band?'

    We heart Milton Glaser

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Random British Couple 'Rewarded Handsomely' For Letting Mayor Ruin Their Wedding

    ​Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference today to announce that the city hosted 50 million tourists this year. As guests of honor for the conference, the city invited British couple Craig Johnson and Lucy Foulger. The pair had been married only an hour earlier. Johnson and Foulger, those gen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2011

    Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Loses Control, is Destroyed

    via Blue Origin​A spacecraft funded by Amazon head Jeff Bezos lost control during a test flight and was destroyed, the Wall Street Journal reports. Blue Origin, a commercial space company Bezos funds, is believed to have launched and lost the unmanned craft on August 24th. In a letter written ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 17, 2011

    MASTER OF PUPPPETS

    Remembering the genius of Jim Henson

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Did HRC Drive Off with the NOM Defector's Marriage Equality Tour?

    Did HRC steal the name or idea for their bus tour from the NOM defector, or is it a coincidence?​Last week, we broke the story that Kitty Lambert, one of the very first lesbians legally married in New York State, would be joining NOM defector Louis Marinelli, once a staunch opponent of gay mar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Andrew Silverstein, Tour Guide, Talks Queens, Immigration and Big Red Buses

    Esther ZuckermanAndrew Silverstein​Andrew Silverstein, one of the co-founders of Streetwise New York, coaxed us to step inside Economy Candy on Rivington, a mecca of sweet treats. We had just chatted over frothy coffees at El Castillo de Jagua. Both are stops on Streetwise's "Immigrant NY, Old ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    New York City Lost the Tourist Game to Orlando

    Disclosure: I'm from here (not the castle)​Apparently Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted New York City to be the first city in America to annoy its permanent residents with 50 million tourists in one year. In 2010, Bloomberg said NYC had 48.7 million visitors, while Orlando, Florida had 48.6 milli ... More >>

  • News

    May 4, 2011

    Osama bin Laden's Death Doesn't Solve Everything. But It Helps.

    Disclosure: I'm from here (not the castle)​Apparently Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted New York City to be the first city in America to annoy its permanent residents with 50 million tourists in one year. In 2010, Bloomberg said NYC had 48.7 million visitors, while Orlando, Florida had 48.6 milli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    3D Porn Gettin' China All Worked Up

    ​With all the talk about China being an emerging superpower and formidable economic player, we often forget that they still have to catch up with the good ol' US of A on some fronts. Namely, being cool about porn. The Independent reports that Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, a multi-million dolla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Tourists Love New York City, and Especially Brooklyn

    ​​​Oh, goody. The New York Times' City Room reports that tourism in New York City hit a new high last year, raking in a record 48.7 million slow-walking, skyscraper-gazing, sidewalk-congesting, Century 21-shopping visitors.

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Are Bedbugs Scaring Tourists Away From NYC?

    ​Tourists afraid of bedbugs? The Associated Press thinks so! Today's national wire carries a terrifying (and mostly anecdotal) piece about how bedbugs -- this year's trendiest New York annoyance/epidemic/infestation -- are threatening the city's "$30 billion tourism industry."

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    The 9/11 iPhone App: Not Quite 'DoodleJump'

    ​Those of you with iPhones out there in the world have a universe of various games, utilities, and information at your fingertips with the single swipe of a finger, as there's an iPhone app for everything. Even, apparently, to help us remember 9/11.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    New York Tours Are as Diverse and Disturbing as New Yorkers Themselves

    ​Crazy celebrity stalkers and morbid ghost-seekers unite for a two-hour tour of the city's sites of notorious deaths (Heath Ledger, Keith Haring, Sid Vicious, "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Thomas Paine, to name a bunch)! And the tour vehicle is no smiley double-decker bus -- it's a hearse (actually a 196 ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 23, 2010

    St. Patrick’s Weekend Irish New York Walking Tour

    ​Crazy celebrity stalkers and morbid ghost-seekers unite for a two-hour tour of the city's sites of notorious deaths (Heath Ledger, Keith Haring, Sid Vicious, "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Thomas Paine, to name a bunch)! And the tour vehicle is no smiley double-decker bus -- it's a hearse (actually a 196 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Vancouver HIM Makes Kissy Gay Tourism Pitch During Olympics

    ​The most recent Gay & Lesbian Tourism Survey rankings by Community Marketing, Inc. showed New York hanging in as the nation's #1 GLBT tourist destination. But those crafty Canadians are pulling out all the stops to eat our gay-tourism lunch. Here's a poster from the Vancouver Health Initiati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Critical Mass Has to Have a Permit for Big Bike Rides, Says Judge

    ​In 2007 NYPD, fed up with the big, rowdy Critical Mass bike events, made up a new parade regulation requiring all bicycle gatherings of 50 or more to get a permit. (Critical Mass usually involves hundreds of bikes.) The Five Borough Bike Club filed suit, claiming the arbitrary reg violated cy ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 10, 2009

    'Numero's Eccentric Soul Revue'

    ​In 2007 NYPD, fed up with the big, rowdy Critical Mass bike events, made up a new parade regulation requiring all bicycle gatherings of 50 or more to get a permit. (Critical Mass usually involves hundreds of bikes.) The Five Borough Bike Club filed suit, claiming the arbitrary reg violated cy ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2009

    'The Mandala Concert'

    ​In 2007 NYPD, fed up with the big, rowdy Critical Mass bike events, made up a new parade regulation requiring all bicycle gatherings of 50 or more to get a permit. (Critical Mass usually involves hundreds of bikes.) The Five Borough Bike Club filed suit, claiming the arbitrary reg violated cy ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 8, 2009

    STRANGE BREW

    So many beers, so little time

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Tavern on the Green Under New Management -- For First Time in 33 Years

    ​Notorious Central Park tourist trap Tavern on the Green will for the first time in 33 years be run by somebody other than the LeRoy family, who have been responsible for its mothy elegance since the 70s: Dean Poll, who runs the Central Park Boathouse, described by Eater as "another disappoint ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 18, 2009

    'Sunday Best with Theo Parrish'

    ​Notorious Central Park tourist trap Tavern on the Green will for the first time in 33 years be run by somebody other than the LeRoy family, who have been responsible for its mothy elegance since the 70s: Dean Poll, who runs the Central Park Boathouse, described by Eater as "another disappoint ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Grimaldi's Opens in Queens

    NY1 brings word that a new branch of Grimaldi's has opened in Queens. The location, on 61st Avenue in Douglaston, offers the same menu, as well as new salads. Whether or not it will become, in the words of Grimaldi's manager Gina Peluso, a "total total total tourist attraction" like the original DUM ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Brooklyn ATM Charging $3.99 for a Withdrawal

    Amazing. An ATM in DUMBO is charging an exorbitant $3.99 to withdraw money. Mike McLaughlin of the Brooklyn Paper pegs the ATM machine as at the foot of Old Fulton Street in DUMBO -- with its delightful panoramic view of the Brooklyn Bridge -- as one of the city's more egregious tourist traps. Is ... More >>

  • Film

    June 3, 2009

    My Life in Ruins Is Nia Vardalos' Strangely Self-Loathing Anti-Comeback

    Amazing. An ATM in DUMBO is charging an exorbitant $3.99 to withdraw money. Mike McLaughlin of the Brooklyn Paper pegs the ATM machine as at the foot of Old Fulton Street in DUMBO -- with its delightful panoramic view of the Brooklyn Bridge -- as one of the city's more egregious tourist traps. Is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Curtis Sliwa: Tour Guide

    Guardian Angels founder, radio talk show host, mob target, and champion pickle eater Curtis Sliwa recently added a new feather to his red cap: he's now a tour guide. In a video on the site dedicated to his new venture, "Underbelly Tours," Sliwa explains how his three-hour tours begin in the subw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Oh, Canada. More Food Obamamania

    A very earnest pastryMaybe you all have heard of the Canadian snack known as BeaverTails, but I had not before a press release from the Ottawa Tourism Board pinged into my inbox. Apparently, the BeaverTail is a fried whole wheat dough stretched into the shape of a beaver's tail ("one of Canada's na ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    New York Opens Mumbai Tourist Office

    A very earnest pastryMaybe you all have heard of the Canadian snack known as BeaverTails, but I had not before a press release from the Ottawa Tourism Board pinged into my inbox. Apparently, the BeaverTail is a fried whole wheat dough stretched into the shape of a beaver's tail ("one of Canada's na ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    KF Seetoh on Singaporean Street Food

    A very earnest pastryMaybe you all have heard of the Canadian snack known as BeaverTails, but I had not before a press release from the Ottawa Tourism Board pinged into my inbox. Apparently, the BeaverTail is a fried whole wheat dough stretched into the shape of a beaver's tail ("one of Canada's na ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    The All-Star Game As Economic Boon? Don't Believe the Hype

    A very earnest pastryMaybe you all have heard of the Canadian snack known as BeaverTails, but I had not before a press release from the Ottawa Tourism Board pinged into my inbox. Apparently, the BeaverTail is a fried whole wheat dough stretched into the shape of a beaver's tail ("one of Canada's na ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2008

    STEP ASIDE

    Atlantic Avenue gets done up

  • Voice Choices

    May 20, 2008

    TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE

    Celebrating the Brooklyn Bridge’s B-day

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2008

    Pickled Protest at LES Tenement Museum

    Celebrating the Brooklyn Bridge’s B-day

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2007

    Deliciousness Tour Ends Tonight with Red Hook Party

    Celebrating the Brooklyn Bridge’s B-day

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2007

    Jim Leff's Street Food Map

    Celebrating the Brooklyn Bridge’s B-day

  • Film

    June 27, 2006

    Tropical Maladies

    A smart, sentimental view of pre-AIDS sex tourism

  • Screens

    November 22, 2005

    London Calling: An Aesthetic Manifesto

    A smart, sentimental view of pre-AIDS sex tourism

  • Columns

    April 26, 2005

    Class Conscious

    Accidental learning through leisure activities

  • Books

    July 15, 2003

    Uncertain Regard

    Novelist Michel Houellebecq's French Letters

  • Books

    July 23, 2002

    Palace in Wonderland

    Novelist Michel Houellebecq's French Letters

  • Music

    February 12, 2002

    Not Fragile

    Novelist Michel Houellebecq's French Letters

  • News

    January 1, 2002

    Where the Hell Are You?

    An Open Letter From Israel to American Tourists

  • Books

    December 28, 1999

    Memory Lane

    An Open Letter From Israel to American Tourists

  • News

    September 29, 1998

    Queers Ahoy!

    The high price of gay and lesbian travel

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