City break New York: The dream destination Manhattan has many new attractions

Traveling to New York is more attractive than ever before: With more than 58 million tourists in 2015, the Big Apple recorded visitor records and remains the dream destination for city trips – with a multitude of new attractions.

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Anyone who lands in New York for the first time is impressed by the speed that prevails in this energetic city. Manhattan gives people a different pace. Everything is running, hardly any pedestrian stops at a red traffic light and waits for the green light. Everyone is in a hurry. The background noise also takes getting used to. The sirens of the ambulances wail constantly, a helicopter rattles over the roofs and hissing plumes of water vapor from manhole covers.

Sixth record year in a row for NYC

The city between the Hudson and East River has become even more attractive: 58.3 million tourists came to New York City in 2015, as announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio. 12.3 million visitors came from abroad – most of them from Great Britain, Canada, Brazil and China. The latter country recorded the greatest growth, with an increase of 14 percentage points to 852,000 visitors. There are now 107,000 hotel rooms in the city.

New attractions since 2015

In 2015, a variety of new attractions opened in Manhattan, such as the One World Observatory, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, the Brookfield Place on the southern tip of Manhattan, which reopened as a pedestrian bridge High Bridge across the Harlem River and the Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor.

In addition, the subway line 7 was expanded to Manhattan’s Far West Side to 34th Street and Eleventh Avenue. To celebrate these improvements, has NYC & Company Events held around the world and the new openings under the motto “New New York” highlighted.

Not only is staying in New York expensive for tourists. Everyday life is anything but easy. New York remains a city full of contrasts. “Their climate is hideous, local politics terrifying, the traffic infernal, their struggle for life murderous,” wrote the writer John Steinbeck. “But one thing in its essence is terrific: It doesn’t sit in the clothes, it rather goes into the pores. Anyone who has once been at home in this city offers no other substitute for it.”

City in time lapse

The tempo of Manhattan cannot be captured better with any other medium than in time-lapse film. That’s why we’re showing the video by filmmakers Max Moos and Timo Kurrat to get you in the mood for the New York guide. Only with a digital camera, clamp tripod and an external hard drive for data storage they wandered through the city. The automatic shutter took one picture per second. In this way, more than 100,000 individual images were created, which they condensed into film sequences on their return on the computer.

The result is four compact film minutes: yellow taxis whiz through the deep street canyons like nervous ants, wisps of cloud rage around skyscrapers, in the evening the streets and avenues glow in the sea of ​​lights like veins of liquid gold. New York acts like a drug to visitors. This city is addicting. You can always dive in and be inspired – as long as you have enough money.

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