you're ahead of the game just for being here it's mark simone on 710 w o r well it's friday just

uh the final a friday before christmas and uh how did it get to be New Year's already?

It wasn't just summer and then fall flew by?

Winter officially begins tomorrow.

There might be a little coating or dusting of snow here in Manhattan and maybe even an inch or two outside of New York.

It's been a big year in New York City.

New York is back, bigger than ever.

We set the all-time record for tourists this past year.

65 million tourists came to New York.

65 million.

80% from the United States, 20% from other countries.

If you've been walking around Manhattan the last few days, you know it is absolutely mobbed.

The stores are packed.

The streets are packed.

The hotels are full and more.

Now, they're more expensive than ever, but part of the reason is because the illegals,

they've taken something like 200 hotels off the market creating an even bigger

shortage of rooms driving the price up but as Steve Kuzzo reported yesterday even

commercial office space not only back bigger than ever but we're starting to see a shortage

of commercial office space in New York you can read his column about it in the New York Post.

So a big, big year for New York.

2025 New Year's Eve, Times Square.

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