Tariffs’ high prices are keeping US travelers at home and International visitors would rather spend elsewhere.
Is your community seeing a drop off in Tourism dollars and people? Let me know.
From the Gotham, our local paper:
It’s Monday in New York City, where Spread Love Tours, a Ridgewood-based company, usually brings in $35,000 a year from visiting Canadianhigh school groups.
But after President Donald Trump started talking about annexing Canada, our northern neighbors started avoiding New York City — as have tourists from Mexico, Germany and France.
Here’s what this has done to the city’s economy.
And here’s what else is happening:
- Mayor Eric Adamsdownplayed the discovery of forged and fraudulently obtained signatures his campaign submitted to get on the ballot for re-election, saying it’s “part of the business.”
- A Gothamist investigationidentified 52 signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged, though thousands more have not been vetted.
- Several New Jersey PATHtrain lines were suspended during this morning’s commute after a fire broke out in a train car, sending panicked passengers scrambling toward the exits.
- A historic hotel marquee above the Clark Street subway station in Brooklyn Heights came crashing down Sunday morning, forcing the MTA to suspend service at the station.
- Gov. Kathy Hochulyesterday took a not-so-veiled swipe at her potential Republican challenger for governor, Rep. Elise Stefanik, over her vote to cut Medicaid.
- Gait recognition, the new frontier in surveillance technology, could eventually be accurate enough to identify you based on your walk. A new bill in the City Council would protect the way you walk the same way the city guards information about tax records and your fingerprints.
- The Manhattan district attorney‘s office is holding new trainings for prosecutors and investigators to learn more ethical and accurate ways to interviewsuspects, witnesses and victims.
- New York City’s decennial tree census will soon use cutting-edge 3D scanners to assess the health of more than 600,000 street trees.
- Did you feel the magnitude 3 earthquake that rattled parts of New York and northern New Jersey on Saturday night?
- The message of this year’s Fire Island Pines Party was “self-love.”