New York City United States

New York City is the most intensely urban conference destination in the world, a city where the density of options in food, culture, nightlife, and professional networking is unmatched anywhere in North America. Midtown Manhattan is the traditional hub for large convention events, with the Javits Center on the Hudson River handling the largest trade shows and the numerous hotels around Times Square, Grand Central, and the Penn Station corridor accommodating tens of thousands of conference attendees. For academic and technology conferences, venues range from university campuses at Columbia, NYU, and Rockefeller University to hotel ballrooms and dedicated event spaces in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. The subway system runs 24 hours and connects all five boroughs; for conference attendees staying in Midtown, virtually every venue of interest is reachable by train or on foot. The food scene is extraordinary in its range, from Michelin-starred tasting menus in the West Village to cheap and outstanding dim sum in Flushing, ramen in the East Village, and pizza by the slice everywhere. New York is served by three major airports: JFK (international and domestic, AirTrain to subway), LaGuardia (domestic, no rail link), and Newark (EWR, NJ Transit to Penn Station).

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