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 Tourism is important to New York City, with about 47 million foreign and American tourists visiting each year. Major destinations include the Empire State Building, Ellis Island , Broadway theatre productions, museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and other tourist attractions including Central Park , Washington Square Park , Rockefeller Center , Times Square , the Bronx Zoo , New York Botanical Garden , luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues , and events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village , the Tribeca Film Festival , and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage. The Statue of Liberty is a major tourist attraction and one of the most recognizable icons of the United States.Many of the city's ethnic enclaves, such as Jackson Heights, Flushing , and Brighton Beach are major shopping destinations for first and second generation Americans up and down the East Coast.

One-third of all American [|independent films] are produced in New York. [|[95]] More than 200 newspapers and 350 consumer magazines have an office in the city and the book-publishing industry employs about 25,000 people. Two of the three national daily newspapers in the United States are New York papers: // [|The Wall Street Journal] // and // [|The New York Times] //. Major tabloid newspapers in the city include // [|The New York Daily News] // and // [|The New York Post] //, founded in 1801 by [|Alexander Hamilton]. The city also has a major ethnic press, with 270 newspapers and magazines published in more than 40 languages. // [|El Diario La Prensa] // is New York's largest Spanish-language daily and the oldest in the nation. // [|The New York Amsterdam News] //, published in Harlem, is a prominent African American newspaper. // [|The Village Voice] // is the largest [|alternative newspaper]. [|Rockefeller Center] – [|NBC Studios] .The television industry developed in New York and is a significant employer in the city's economy. The four major American broadcast networks, [|ABC], [|CBS] , [|FOX] and [|NBC] , are all headquartered in New York.