Today, New York City is the second largest center for the film industry in the United States. The city has more than 2,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than 500 art galleries of all sizes.^[91]

The city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget than the National Endowment for the Arts.^[91] Wealthy industrialists in the 19th century built a network of major cultural institutions, such as the famed Carnegie Hall and Metropolitan Museum of Art, that would become internationally established. The advent of electric lighting led to elaborate theatre productions, and in the 1880s New York City theaters on Broadway and along 42nd Street began featuring a new stage form that became known as the Broadway musical.

Strongly influenced by the city's immigrants, productions such as those of Harrigan and Hart, George M. Cohan and others used song in narratives that often reflected themes of hope and ambition. Today these productions are a staple of the New York theatre scene.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is home to 12 influential arts organizations, making it the largest performing arts complex in the United States.

The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, includes...

• Jazz at Lincoln Center
• Metropolitan Opera
• New York City Opera
• New York Philharmonic
• New York City Ballet, the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, the Juilliard School and Alice Tully Hall, is the largest performing arts center in the United States.

Central Park SummerStage presents performances of free plays and music in Central Park and 1,200 free concerts, dance, and theater events across all five boroughs in the summer months.^[93]

Tourism

• 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 leading tourist attraction and one of the most recognizable icons of the United States.^[96]

Many of the city's ethnic enclaves, such as Jackson Heights, Flushing, and Brighton Beach are prime shopping destinations for first and second generation Americans up and down the East Coast.

Media

Some of the city's media conglomerates include Time Warner, the News Corporation, the Hearst Corporation, and Viacom. Seven of the world's top eight global advertising agency networks have their headquarters in New York^[99].

Three of the "Big Four" record labels headquarters are in the New York City while some are also based in major U.S cities as well, such as in Los Angeles, Nashville, and Atlanta.

Four "major labels" dominate recorded music —

• Sony Music Entertainment
• Universal Music Group,^[100]
• Warner Music Group and EMI — each of which consists of many smaller companies and labels serving different regions and markets.

One-third of all American independent films are produced in New York^[101].

More than 200 newspapers and 350 consumer magazines have an office in the city^[101] and the book-publishing industry employs about 25,000 people^[102].

Two of the three national daily newspapers in the United States are New York papers:

• The Wall Street Journal
• 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.^[103] El Diario La Prensa is New York's largest Spanish-language daily and the oldest in the nation^[104]. The New York Amsterdam News, published in Harlem, is a prominent African American newspaper.

The Village Voice is the largest alternative newspaper.

The four major American broadcast networks are:

• ABC
• CBS
• FOX and NBC, are all headquartered in New York.

Many cable channels are based in the city as well, including

• MTV
• Fox News
• HBO and Comedy Central.

In 2005, there were more than 100 television shows taped in New York City^[105].

New York is also a major center for non-commercial media.

The oldest public-access television channel in the United States is the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, founded in 1971.^[106] *WNET is the city's major public television station and a primary source of national

• PBS programming. WNYC, a public radio station owned by the city until 1997, has the largest public radio audience in the United States^[107].

The City of New York operates a public broadcast service, nyctv, that produces several original Emmy Award-winning shows covering music and culture in city neighborhoods and city government.

Cuisine

New York's food culture, influenced by the city's immigrants and large number of dining patrons, is diverse.

Eastern European and Italian immigrants have made the city famous for bagels, cheesecake, and New York-style pizza. Some 4,000 mobile food vendors licensed by the city, many immigrant-owned, have made Middle Eastern foods such as falafels and kebabs standbys of modern New York street food, although hot dogs and pretzels are still the main street fare.^[108]

The city is also home to many of the finest haute cuisine restaurants in the United States.^[109] New York City's variety of world cuisines is also varied.

Examples could include:

• Italian
• French, Spanish
• German, Russian, English
• Greek, Moroccan,
• Chinese, Indian, Japanese cuisines, and the diverse indigenous sort.