Ray's has gotta be the most over hyped place since SHAK--- simply not much better than the $1 slice before the lincoln tunnel
Years ago when i lived there one coworker,old chap born and raised in NYC used to tell me: "You don't have to go anywhere,they all come over here from every corner of the Globe." If they all come to NYC from everywhere including me they bring their cuisine.So living there you kind of learn about specific cuisine without going anywhere. Best Peruvian food i ever tried at one restaurant in Hell's Kitchen,for years used to got there once a week Lomo Saltado delicious. http://www.quericavida.com/recipes/peruvian-lomo-saltado/5ea8ace7-4c81-4bf7-930d-fe69322febaf My answer would be top restaurants http://ny.eater.com/maps/michelin-new-york-restaurants-2017
That's exactly why hedge funds pay big bucks for rent on major corridors in NYC. Our CIO use to say, every billionaire in the world comes down this street at one time or another, hence my office location.
Not produced there, but a lot of gold is stored in New York. Don't know updated figures but from a quick google search.... "Federal Reserve Bank of New York holds the prize as the world's biggest known stockpile of gold, some 550,000 glistening bars of the stuff buried deep into the bedrock of lower Manhattan. That's $203.3 billion worth of gold in a single place. Just 2% to 5% of it is owned by the U.S. government, though."Forbes 2008
We have seen Die Hard with a Vengeance. According to Baron's chart, 2.7 billion worths of gold is produced annually in, well, New York State.
If you factor in the black market (recreational drugs/prostitution/gambling) like other countries have started to do than NYC has got to be the highest GDP per square mile than any other place in the world.
We don't always consider education an industry, but it is big in NYC. This is a list of public and private colleges and universities in New York City. Think of the number of employees that work here and the local businesses the employees and students support. The Ailey School (Alvin Ailey American Dance Crew). Albert Einstein College of Medicine American Academy of Dramatic Arts American Academy McAllister Institute American Musical and Dramatic Academy ASA College Bank Street College of Education Bard College Bard Graduate Center Globalization and International Affairs Program Barnard College Berkeley College Bethel Seminary of the East Boricua College Bramson ORT College Briarcliffe College - The Queens Center Brooklyn Law School Christie's Education City University of New York (CUNY) (multiple campuses) Baruch College Borough of Manhattan Community College Bronx Community College Brooklyn College City College of New York Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education College of Staten Island CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies CUNY Graduate Center CUNY Graduate School of Journalism CUNY School of Law (at Queens College) CUNY School of Professional Studies CUNY William E. Macaulay Honors College Stella and Charles Guttman Community College (first CUNY community college opened in over 40 years) Hostos Community College Hunter College John Jay College of Criminal Justice Kingsborough Community College LaGuardia Community College Lehman College Medgar Evers College New York City College of Technology Queens College Queensborough Community College York College College of Mount Saint Vincent College of New Rochelle (School of New Resources) Columbia University Teachers College Union Theological Seminary Cooper Union Cornell University Cornell NYC Tech Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Weill Cornell Medical College DeVry University European School of Economics Fordham University Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University[1] General Theological Seminary Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Science Globe Institute of Technology Hebrew Union College Helene Fuld College of Nursing Institute of Design and Construction Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Juilliard School Keller Graduate School of Management The King's College Laboratory Institute of Merchandising Long Island Business Institute - Flushing Long Island College Hospital School of Nursing Long Island University Mandl College of Allied Health Manhattan College Manhattan School of Music Marymount Manhattan College Mercy College Metropolitan College of New York Monroe College The New School Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts Mannes College The New School for Music Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy The New School for Drama The New School for General Studies The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music The New School for Social Research Parsons The New School for Design New York Academy of Art New York Career Institute New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis New York Institute of Technology New York Law School New York School of Interior Design New York School of Urban Ministry New York Theological Seminary New York University New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering New York University School of Law New York University School of Medicine Tisch School of Arts New York University of Architecture Nyack College (School of Music) Pace University Pacific College of Oriental Medicine Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing Plaza College Pratt Institute Professional Business College Rabbi Isaac Elchanon Theological Seminary Richard Gilder Graduate School - American Museum of Natural History Rockefeller University School of American Ballet School of Visual Arts St. Francis College St. John's University New Brunswick Theological Seminary St. Joseph's College Sotheby's Institute of Art State University of New York (multiple campuses) Fashion Institute of Technology SUNY College of Optometry SUNY Downstate Medical Center SUNY Empire State College (The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies) SUNY Maritime College Studio Maestro Swedish Institute of Massage Therapy Technical Career Institute College of Technology Touro College Tri-State College of Acupuncture Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology Wagner College Wood Tobe-Coburn School Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law