Shhhh! Feb. 10’s blizzard is a perfect snapshot of how newspapers are coping with the 21st-century realities of publishing on pulp and online.

It’s a question that local community and business leaders have long asked each other: Why don’t our neighborhood institutions, businesses and restaurants enjoy the benefits of a more robust tourism industry?

Up here we’ve got world famous artwork at the Hispanic Society of America. An unparalleled collection of medieval art at the Cloisters. Two of the city’s oldest buildings in the Morris-Jumel Mansion and. The fabled rock where Manhattan Island is said to have been purchased. Malcolm X’s memorial. An Olympic lineup of activities on track, land and river. Enough stories of immigrants starting over in the New World that we should anchor our own Ellis Island off Tubby Hook. Dyckman Farmhouse

There’s no doubt that Northern Manhattan can weave countless narratives to entice legions of tourists in search of authentic cultural experiences.