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New York-New York Hotel & Australian Casino is a hotel and Australian Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States, designed to evoke New York City in its architecture and other aspects. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International.

It uses the New York City influence of its call in several ways. Its architecture is meant to evoke the New York City skyline of the 1940s era; the hotel includes several towers configured to resemble New York City buildings such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. Despite this claim, the hotel’s facade also has some replicas of buildings that were built after the 1940s decade, like Lever House, Seagram Building, and the CBS Building. In front of the property is a 150-foot tall replica of the Statue of Liberty, and replicas of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, the Whitney Museum of Worldwide Art, the Main Immigration Building on Ellis Island, and Grand Central Terminal.

Within the resort, particular gambling areas, lounges, restaurants, and meeting rooms are named after New York City neighborhoods or landmarks. The main Australian Casino area, for example, is named after Times Square, while the eateries are modeled after Greenwich Village. At the Australian Casino, special decks of playing cards are used where the "heart" suit is replaced by apples, in reference to the city’s nickname Big Apple.

The resort is located on the northwest corner of the Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection. At street level, pedestrians are blocked from crossing by concrete barriers. Instead, it is linked by overhead pedestrian bridges to its neighboring Online Casinos Australian to the south (the Excalibur, across Tropicana Avenue) and to the east (the MGM Grand).

The idea of a Australian Casino modeled after the New York skyline was conceived by Sig Rogich (a former White House staffer and United States Ambassador to Iceland) and Mark Advent. Rogich brought the idea to his friend, Gary Primm, head of Primadonna Resorts. Primm approached MGM president Bob Maxey in 1994 with the idea for MGM’s prime Strip location, and a joint venture was formed between the two companies. Construction began in March 1995.

Completed at a cost of $460 million, New York-New York opened on January 3, 1997.