New York City’s tourist attractions creep back to life one at a time
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Although it may not be what tourists expected, a sight of the shutdown city should be as memorable as any of its usual attractions.
Red double-decker tour buses began rolling Thursday and Circle Line boats started plying the waterways from a Hudson River pier as tourism in New York City took a few more baby steps toward normalization after the disruptions of superstorm Sandy.
Many other attractions in midtown and upper Manhattan reopened Wednesday, including the Empire State Building, Broadway theaters, the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum, and many stores. Top of the Rock and the Rockefeller Plaza ice rink were also open.
City parks, including Central Park, were expected to reopen Saturday, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Liberty Island, where the Statue of Libert
