He said most single-focus attractions that offered little that was new saw their attendance decline.
More typical, though, is Theater Three in Port Jefferson, where the executive director, Jeffrey Sanzel, has seen attendance decline.
Officials at SUNY-Buffalo blame a variety of factors for the attendance decline, including the cold weather during the later home games.
Not So Expensive Mark Cuban weighed in on an article last Sunday in The New York Times about the relatively small attendance decline through the season's first two weeks.
James A. Rasulo, Disney's chief financial officer, said the attendance decline was caused partly by a decision to ease off deep discounting — something that had kept the parks full of visitors during the economic downturn but had also hurt margins.
They have had two straight losing seasons, and two September collapses before that; have watched attendance decline at Citi Field for the second straight year; and have suffered an unending series of injuries to key players.
In fact, when the Yankees play their 66th home game of the season Friday night against the Baltimore Orioles they will be confronting an attendance decline from the same point in 2012 that now stands at 239,036 fans, according to statistics kept by baseballreference.com.com
League officials, having publicly voiced "concern with this season's 1% attendance decline, are in full posture mode as they await negotiations with the next NFLPA administration under an economic cloud.
