Sorry, didn't notice this comment. There are so many lists, I tried to take the ones common to
The top 5 are Times Square (#1 worldwide at 35M), Met (#30 at 4.5 M), Statue of Liberty (#36 at 4.24M), AMNH (#40 at 4m) and the ESB (#42 at 4M).[1][2]
nyc.com (esb, sol, ellis island, met, moma, central park, times sq, amnh, guggenheim) [3]
gonyc.about.com lists a similiar set (esb, sol, gct, rockcenter, ellis, si ferry, amnh, central park, met, moma)[4]
nyu lists (amnh, met, moma, central park, esb, sol, ellis, si ferry, gct, rock center)[5]
nyctourist.com (esb, top of rock, central park, un, met, fao schwarz, ground zero, S of L, Rock Center, Times Square, AMNH, Intrepid, Seaport)[6]
Summarizing this (and rounding Ellis Island into S o L and "Top of the Rock" into Rock Center, you get (ranked by mentions)
PS, many of the official web sites for attractions list "millions" or "thousands a day" and nothing more specific. The forbes list specifically mentions that there were many attractions which did not publish numbers and thus could not be counted.
dm 03:55, 31 August 2007 (UTC)reply
I would take MSNBC/Forbes as a
reliable source and use that list. All the other lists you mention don't say that they're based on hard data on visitor numbers.
Wl219 07:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)reply
It appears Central Park gets about 20M visitors a year
nycgovparks.org, which would put it at #2
dm 23:34, 10 September 2007 (UTC)reply
The MoMA had 2.67M visitors in the first year after reopening
Economic Impact, which puts it last in Forbes list, but I still think close enough to add to the list
dm 23:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Let's make these links a bit more obvious...
Waltham,
The Duke of 00:47, 26 February 2009 (UTC)reply