![]() ![]() Tourism, the accelerant for so many of the city’s amenities, was a priority for a sustainable recovery, and city leaders are doing everything in their power to bring back not only those apprehensive New Yorkers whose hunger for regular bites of the Big Apple is finally being sated, but also the nearly 70 million people who visited in 2019 and spent $46 billion across its expansive quilt of Sights & Landmarks (ranked #1 in the country). A mid-pandemic 50% drop in real estate sales spiked to the highest all-time median rents in Manhattan two years later (currently registering in the mid-$5,000s per month). Sniping haters who declared that the big, vibrant, cheek-by-jowl city experiment was finally over as the urban exodus intensified in 2020 and vacancy in the city’s coveted real estate hit double digits were quickly silenced by the rebound. Today, NYC is also the urban recovery writ large. The greatest city in America-lauded and crowned in our rankings for almost a decade and in countless others for many more-was a ghastly reminder during the pandemic of the vulnerability of even the colossal and seemingly all-powerful we saw here what awaited other cities across the U.S. ![]()
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