New York privlači posjetitelje iz cijeloga svijeta. Grad je to u kojem nikad nije dosadno, a koji štošta nudi kako za lokalno stanovništvo tako i za turiste.
Za sve koji putuju ondje Lonely Planet složio je popis znamenitosti koje definitivno trebaju obići:
- Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
- Empire State Building & Chrysler Building
- One World Trade Center & One World Observatory
- National 9/11 Memorial & Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art & Met Cloisters
- Central Park
- Coney Island: New York Aquarium, Luna Park & the Cyclone
- Brooklyn Bridge & Brooklyn Bridge Park
- Manhattan Skyline
- The High Line & Hudson Yards
- Rockefeller Center: Top of the Rock & Radio City Music Hall
- Times Square & Theater District
- New York City Subway & Staten Island Ferry
- Bronx Zoo & New York Botanical Gardens
- Industry City, Brooklyn Navy Yard & Brooklyn Army Terminal
- Yankee Stadium & Citi Field.