The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year for New York City's travel and tourism industry, and the strike severely affects tourism to the boroughs, to Harlem and to lower Manhattan.

We're here to give our gift for the holiday season to the tourists of New York. We're here on good faith to play. We intend to go to work.

These reductions come despite the anticipated record level of Christmas-New Year holiday travel.

We've never done anything like this before. Our mission has always been to bring tourism to New York City. But the time is right for tourists to begin returning to New Orleans, and New Yorkers are always trendsetters.

From Harlem to Queens, New York City has always been at the center of the jazz music evolution. This festival will further establish New York City as the premier destination for experiencing live jazz music.

Today, it takes almost exactly the same amount of time to travel by train between Albany and New York City as it did in the 1950s,