Posted by Leonard Steinberg on December 22nd, 2011

New York will draw more than 50 million visitors by the end of 2011 — a record for the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday.

“While playing host to the world isn’t new for us, the number of visitors we’re welcoming in recent years is new,” Bloomberg said during a ceremony in Times Square, while surrounded by cheering tourism officials. “That means more guests in our hotels, more shoppers in our stores, larger audiences in our museums and theaters, more diners at our restaurants.”

A healthy city economy benefits all. So will the naysayers only remember the snowstorm of 2010 when they think of Bloomberg? In my books this mayor has done significantly more good for this City than any other mayor before him. We should be thankful.