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New York City’s wealth of history and culture is a huge draw for meetings.

With tree-lined streets, the bustling City Point mall and cultural attractions like the historic Brooklyn Academy of Music, Downtown Brooklyn is an ideal home base for meetings and events.

New York City’s dynamic character is the reason planners bring their meetings here year after year. Here’s a look at several meeting venues that will come online in 2020, as well as new attractions, like the Museum of Broadway, that your attendees can enjoy before and after your event.

New York City's fall-winter holiday season includes major events like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square.

New York City’s 2.1-million-square-foot Javits Center currently welcomes more than 2 million people each year. In 2021 the convention center will debut an expansion that will add 1.2 million square feet of event space to Manhattan’s west side and increase its meeting space by a factor of five.

The Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s far west side stretches from 30th to 34th Streets between Tenth and Twelfth Avenues and features a raft of enticing dining, shopping and entertainment options.

Midtown East is a little quieter than its counterpart to the west, but still packed with dining, entertainment and retail experiences that keep visitors coming back to NYC.

Attendees love New York City for the wide variety of experiences—like fine dining, luxury shopping and Broadway theater—available outside of the traditional meeting room.

Manhattan’s bustling, centrally located Midtown West neighborhood is home to Carnegie Hall and many Broadway theaters, not to mention a variety of amazing meeting venues.

New York City has more great attractions than any other place in the world, with more opening every day.