Regular faces, the yearly visitors, seemed willing to pay them".
The number of yearly visitors to the Modern, he said, is "well over 1.8-million".
The Lucy Desi Museum draws 20,000 visitors per year, a far cry from the 300,000 yearly visitors who pass through the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Mrs. Thompson said she expects to draw more than the approximately 225,000 yearly visitors who go to the Museum of the City of New York, several blocks south on Fifth Avenue.
The millage tax takes advantage of the fact that the vast majority of the institute's 400,000 yearly visitors — 79 percent — live in one of the three counties.
Level 2: Times Square, New York City Cruise down 7th Avenue as you join the 39 million yearly visitors who come to see "The Crossroads of the World".
Of the 17 million yearly visitors projected to circulate through the center, 3 million of them, Mr. Himmel said, will visit Whole Foods, which will have 42 registers.
Such a total, exceeding the population of Los Angeles, will come close to the five million yearly visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, across Central Park.
The seven million yearly visitors — many from around the region who can't live it up in their own countries — need more than overhyped shopping and gigantic sinking islands.
The center, which is to include a gift shop, restrooms built to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act and information for the garden's 100,000 yearly visitors, is to be fashioned out of an old garage on the site.
