With so many expected arrivals, NYC is certainly making sure everyone has a place to stay. JFK’s Terminal 8 just unveiled 130,000 square feet of new and renovated space, and a new Terminal One opens later this decade.īack on the ground, Moynihan Train Hall is a new 17-track expansion of Penn Station that, if you squint, could pass for a Northern European transit hub from the future. Newark Liberty International’s updated Terminal A has opened with 33 new gates and construction has started on a new, congestion-easing 2.5-mile elevated guideway train system. The new Terminal C also came online last year. Kennedy International Airport all have new terminals, with the new Terminal B at LaGuardia alone boasting 35 gates (to say nothing of the FAO Schwarz on site). LaGuardia Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and John F.
Fortunately, the suspension of travel for more than a year expedited the long-planned transformations of New York’s international gateways. Tourism numbers have also had a breathtaking return, from 33 million visitors in 2021 (less than half of 2019’s total) to 56 million last year-and onward to a projected 61 million this year.įirst order of business: getting those not already here to town. 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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