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To Do NY

1. Eleven Madison Park

9.2
11 Madison Ave (at E 24th St), New York, NY
Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurant · NoMad · 292 tips and reviews

Travel + LeisureTravel + Leisure: Certainly this is the only kitchen within the top 10 of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants that finishes a meal with a riff on that lowly New York coffee-shop staple: the black-and-white cookie.

2. Sushi Yasuda

9.0
204 E 43rd St (at 3rd Ave), New York, NY
Sushi Restaurant · Turtle Bay · 256 tips and reviews

Travel + LeisureTravel + Leisure: In a city that eagerly embraces each successive wave of Japanese imports, Sushi Yasuda remains the ideal long-running, low-key place to celebrate sushi as it’s meant to be eaten.

Tenement Museum is one of To Do NY.

3. Tenement Museum

9.1
103 Orchard St (at Delancey St), New York, NY
History Museum · Lower East Side · 153 tips and reviews
New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is one of To Do NY.

4. New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

9.3
476 5th Ave (at W 42nd St), New York, NY
Library · Midtown East · 528 tips and reviews
Russ & Daughters is one of To Do NY.

5. Russ & Daughters

9.3
179 E Houston St (btwn Allen & Orchard St), New York, NY
Gourmet Store · Lower East Side · 420 tips and reviews

Travel + LeisureTravel + Leisure: The legendary Jewish "appetizing" store—selling smoked salmon, herring, and bagels with a schmear—recently added caviar, a nod to the neighborhood's increasing gentrification.

Ippudo is one of To Do NY.

6. Ippudo

9.1
65 4th Ave (btwn E 9th & E 10th St), New York, NY
Ramen Restaurant · Greenwich Village · 1163 tips and reviews

7. Clinton St. Baking Co. & Restaurant

8.7
4 Clinton St (at E Houston St), New York, NY
Bakery · Lower East Side · 973 tips and reviews

Carine C.Carine Carmy: get there before 11am

8. Milk Bar

8.3
251 E 13th St (at 2nd Ave), New York, NY
Dessert Shop · East Village · 711 tips and reviews

The New York TimesThe New York Times: Recommended: Cereal-milk soft-serve ice cream, chocolate-chocolate cookie, candy-bar pie, chocolate cake with yellow-cake icing, banana cake with hazelnut crunch, Chinese-sausage focaccia. Read more.

9. ABC Kitchen

9.1
35 E 18th St (btwn Broadway & Park Ave S), New York, NY
New American Restaurant · Flatiron District · 720 tips and reviews

The New York TimesThe New York Times: Taste the wages of someone else’s sin: Healthy, haute-organic food that happens to be great, from the prolific Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Read more.