According to Wikipedia and several other sources across the internet, New York City’s Times Square is the #1 tourist attraction in the United States. Times Square sees about 330,000 visitors each day, with its busiest days reaching nearly 500,000. That’s about 131 million people a year.
Times Square is famous for its dazzling billboards, nonstop energy, and iconic attractions like the New Year’s Eve ball drop. It’s a hub for Broadway theaters, world-class dining, and street performers that add to its unique charm.
For many, the experience of standing in the middle of Times Square is like stepping into the heart of American culture, where neon lights and the buzz of activity never seem to stop.
Have you ever visited this iconic U.S. destination? If so, have you visited more than once? Just one time? If not, would you like to visit someday, or do you not really care about visiting? It’s a different world than what most of us are used to!
After you vote, please leave a comment and tell us if you enjoyed visiting Times Square or not.
Oh, and if you’re curious, the second most-popular “attraction” in the U.S. is the Grand Canyon, followed by Washington D.C.’s National Mall.
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I just am not a crowd guy. My children have been and find it exciting. The largest city I lived in was Sydney, Australia and did well in that city life. Then Phoenix and I found it just nerve racking again different environment. One being pretty passive and one passive/aggressive. I guess growing up in the country makes one yearn for peace and quiet.
I live, across the river, go there more to walk thru to where I need to go, rather than site see. I am in awe at how many different places people come from to be there. Try it once. It is safe and amazing.
Once as a teenager. It was horrid. But then I found little in the city appealed to me.
NYC never attracted me. Too crowded, too dirty, too expensive.
I visited once a few decades ago. I don’t have any desire to go back. The older I get, the less I like crowds and big cities.
Coming from a small town where we have to drive 25 miles to get to a stop light and only one restaurant is open past 6:00 pm I found the city vibrant, exciting, and fascinating. It was amazing to see people out at night, side walk artists, etc after 9:00 but I was glad to get home.
A few years back we had an overnight layover in NY and made time to visit Ground Zero. I’m sure we passed by Times Square close enough to qualify as a YES in the poll on the way to our number one attraction.
I used to travel to NYC several times a year on business. To me, Times Square is overrated.
And, the survey claiming TS is the number one tourist attraction, I find that hard to believe it you mean tourist as those visiting the city as their travel destination. How many people are there on business, as I was, and visit TS in the off hours from their primary reason of being in town? I don’t miss NYC, and along with my wife, who has never been there, have no desire to return.
I have read this before and find it hard to believe. In my work years I would go to NYC once or twice a year. It was always fun to go to time square and be wined and dined but I never thought of it as great. My husband and I were raised near Chicago and we learned how to negotiate the city on trains, buses and then expressways. We moved to rural Florida as soon as we could. It occurred to me when my oldest was an early teen she had no practical knowledge of city living. We started great cities of North America excursions. Usually just two of us but the teen had to plan everything. New York is very low on our list of most enjoyable cities.
Years ago my wife and I took our motorhome from Oklahoma to New York City to watch our granddaughter play in the National Honors Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. We parked in the Liberty RV park across the river in New Jersey. We did all the tourist stuff (Central Park, Ellis Island and Lady Liberty, lots of museums and Times Square). It was neat to see, especially our granddaughter at Carnegie Hall. Nice trip, but I would never make the effort to go back to New York. (Don’t ever take your motorhome across the George Washington toll bridge.)
At one time we would’ve…should’ve…visited NYC. My dad was born in Brooklyn and I think I might still have relatives there. Today, NYC, like most big cities, is not a safe place to be. And now with a Communist mayor in Gracie Mansion I fully expect the NYPD to be further handcuffed which just accelerates the city’s demise. So, no, we will not be visiting NYC.
If it has more than a dozen Stop Lights, I want to bypass it unless I absolutely have to go in for something like a specialist Doctor appointment.
Like everything else, it depends on what you like. It was fun to do once for us but not awe inspiring. The Grand Canyon, on the other hand, is spectacular!
Once and that was one too many times!!!
Yes. once. That’s enough for me. If I want to visit something more than once, it will be something beautiful our creator put here in nature.
I have been many times, but only once specifically to go to Times Square. When my son turned 21, we rendezvoused on an Amtrak train — he coming from Washington DC and me getting on in Wilmington Delaware — and headed to New York City to be in Times Square for New Year’s Eve. Watching the ball drop was our only plan.. There are no words to describe the crush of human bodies present at that event. But it was something that we still talk about these 40 some years later and we probably always will.
Like several other commentors, I have been there several times but only the first as a tourist, the rest have been just passing through on the way somewhere else, or once or twice giving someone a tour.
Nothing but noise, crowds, trash, traffic, rude people and crime. The one time I was there, I made sure I brought everything home with me so I’d never have to go back.
We lived in a rural ski resort 50 years. went to NYC once and never stopped until we were back in America.
Big cities and large crowds just aren’t my thing at all.