photo slide show - NYC tourism throughout history

Great new and archival photos from Gotham Gazette, an online web magazine on civic matters.

http://gothamgazette.com/tourism_slide/

If you can%26#39;t open that link, you can find it by going to this page.

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Some quotes from the slide show:

';In contrast to the city%26#39;s official zeal for out-of-town guests, New Yorkers have always been ambivalent about sharing the streets with the tourists they swear they can spot from a mile away. When the city applied for a trademark for the motto ';The World%26#39;s Second Home'; last year, Dave Barry of the New York Times suggested more realistic alternatives, including ';Need Directions? Now Get Lost!';

';But New Yorkers%26#39; efforts to live up to their patented rudeness seem to be failing. Readers digest recently named New York the world%26#39;s most polite city. The British news magazine the Economist agrees, urging its reads to ';separate the brash from the bull'; when dealing with New Yorkers.

';Many New Yorkers pride themselves on being blunt and pushy,'; it writes in its online guide to the city, ';but you may well be surprised by how helpful they can be.';

photo slide show - NYC tourism throughout history

Thanks, QB. I particularly like the shot of the tourist standing in the middle of Times Square taking a photo, oblivious to the traffic coming at him!