If you listen closely you can hear J. Jonah Jameson yelling at Peter Parker in the building that served as inspiration for the Daily Bugle in the Spider-Man comics from Marvel Comics.
This place is a vegetarian's nightmare, but pescetarians, the fish is good -- and there's a fine jazz club downstairs.
The Morgan is one of those little known gems in Manhattan that thrives on presenting some of the most amazing pieces of written art in the world.
40 years ago, NYC cops were paid to beat up, harass, and arrest gay people. Today there are rainbows on the cop cars.
Architecturally, the neighborhood is best appreciated between Madison & Lexington Aves from 35th to 37th Streets -- quiet blocks of noble brownstones and townhouses.
Designed by the Japanese architects SANAA: “The visual signals this building sends—it is at once crisp and pliable, solid and permeable—seem deliberately ambiguous.” Read more.
Renowned by scholars as one of the world's great research libraries. Loved by New Yorkers for the lions (Patience and Fortitude), the architecture, and beautiful Bryant Park in its back yard.
"World's largest store." The wooden escalators, still working, date back to 1902. A mind blowing store for kids to visit, especially at Christmas.
Enter through Cipriani on the balcony at Grand Central & you'll feel as if you have entered a bygone era. Drinks are expensive ($15 martini) but the atmosphere is worth it. Reserve a table in advance.
God intended to deliver this music bar to its proper location in Austin, Texas. But while He was flying there, the bag broke, dropping the bar in NYC of all places. Enjoy.
Located directly across from the NBC Nightly News offices - Radio City is a great spot to watch some amazing acts perform.
"This is not just a cluster of buildings in New York City: it is a national symbol of distinguished corporate design, far and away the finest grouping of skyscrapers ever built." Paul Goldberger
19th century cityscape for your pleasure. Designated historic district includes NYC's largest concentration of restored early 19th century mercantile buildings -- huddled under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Depending on where you point your camera, you’ll either see historic skyscrapers, trees, playgrounds, or the sloping hills of the park.
Once you make "Select" level they send you coupons for free upgrades! Amtrak is the best way between NY and DC!
Manhattan's only formal French garden design, ringed by noble architecture including Raymond Hood's American Radiator Building and The New York Public Library. A soothing respite from the hectic city.
Do not step on any of the metal grates or panels on the ground. When they're wet, they're deadly.
Covering 22 acres, Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings that was built during the 1930s.
One of the world's finest works of architecture, designed by engineers. Crossing it on foot is one of the great urban experiences.
The Chrysler Building was built at an average rate of four floors per week & was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931.
Amazing views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges and Lower Manhattan can be had from Dumbo and adjoining Brooklyn Bridge Park. Plus great neighborhood for design, startups, coffee, and boho chic.
"Royal Tenenbaum bought the house on Archer Avenue," claims Wes Anderson's film, but if you're heading south from the 375th Street Y, we suggest stopping by the corner of 144th and Convent instead. Read more.
Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral descent is a poor art-viewing experience but an unforgettable architectural one.
JP Morgan collected art treasures and rare manuscripts in his mansion with adjoining library. New architecture unifies the buildings and collections into a quietly awe-inspiring experience.
Serene art viewing experience; superb art, media, design, and architecture collections; sure. But MoMA is also a transcendent architectural (and New York) experience.
One of the world's great parks. Give yourself more than a day to experience it. Don't try to see it all.
Start at 59th & walk up to 110th: Central Park to your left, an unbroken masonry line of fine buildings to your right. Or walk down from 59th to Madison Square Park. Two great NYC experiences!
Beloved early (1902) skyscraper whose peculiar shape reflects its wedge-shaped site at the intersection of 23rd Street, 5th Ave, & Broadway - a remarkable piece of urbanism. Jewel of Mad Square Park.
There is fine architecture in every block of this resurrected old shopping district filled with design and fashion studios and startups.
Start at the Plaza and walk up to 110th: Central Park to your left, an unbroken masonry line of fine buildings to your right. Or walk down from 57th to Madison Square Park. Two great NYC experiences!
Cubistic, Harvey Wiley Corbett-designed 32-story base for a proposed 100-story tower that was never built; connected by aerial bridge to 1893 tower modeled on Venetian Campanile. Somehow it all works.
Its gold dome, visible from Flatiron, Gramercy, East Village, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, etc, casts a protective aura. Designed by Cass Gilbert of Woolworth Building fame in 1926. His last NYC skyscraper.
Checkout 'Movable Type', a media arts installation, in building lobby. Coordinated real-time fragments of quotes, archives, questions, numbers and geographic information.
This building was built in 1951-1952 to be the American headquarters of the British soap company Lever Brothers. It was designated as an official landmark in 1982.
6-story base, designed 1928 by Joseph Urban, commissioned directly by William Randolph Hearst. 46-story tower designed by Norman Foster, was 1st skyscraper to break ground in NYC after 9/11.
It's all about the exterior here - the building's simultaneous presence and absence, the play between its ghostly structuralism and the solid masonry of the Plaza Hotel across the street.
Where Cary Grant got into trouble in North by Northwest - and Eloise frolicked. Once NYC's most famous luxury hotel, now a hybrid hotel/condo. It was glorious in the 1960s, a bit shabby in the 2000s. Read more.
New York's most famous skyscraper, and arguably its most iconic landmark. 'Famous for being tall, but deserves to be famous for being good,' Paul Goldberger opined in the 1970s. He's right.
Ironically, it is the Secretariat - where thousands toil at clerical jobs - that defines the complex. The General Assembly may be where votes are cast and speeches made, but it's a visual afterthought
A nice, lower-pressure, less crowded alternative to Central Park Zoo and The Bronx Zoo. On the site of the 1964 World's Fair.
A fun place for kids, adjacent to Flushing Meadows Corona Park and the Queens Zoo. Make a day of it!
Rockefeller Center's visual and spiritual counterpoint. Oldest Catholic Church in NYC; largest Neo-Gothic-style Catholic cathedral in North America.
Best viewed at sunset, walking up Broadway from Wall Street. Designed 1907 by McKim, Mead and White, 1st building to include NYC subway station in its base. Its majesty belies its pedestrian uses.
New (and controversial) design by Morphosis: "First LEED-certified academic laboratory building in New York City. With a Platinum rating, the [project boasts] advanced green building initiatives."
Small-scale Beaux-Arts, designed James Brown Lord, 1900. (Addition: Rogers and Butler, 1954.) 'As if Grand Central ... had shrunk itself to dollhouse size and invited us in to play.' -Paul Goldberger
Dating from the days when New York tenements lacked indoor plumbing, these lovely, Roman-inspired public baths still stand. Architects: Arnold W. Brunner and William Martin Aiken, 1906.
The part of Manhattan that's most like London. Many fine 19th & early 20th century houses and apartments surround a private park. Urban plan 1831, Samuel Ruggles.
Epitomizing Murray Hill's take on Park Avenue is this elegant J. Hampton Robb residence by McKim, Mead and White (1898), later the Advertising Club, and now cooperative apartments.
the 'shroom burger is the best thing here: bite into it and drown in cheese. wash it down with a lemonade
World's 1st residential skyscraper complex, built by Fred F. French in former slum district. Despite name, style is actually neo-Gothic. Lovely middle class housing; overlooks UN, 42nd Street.
Quintessential Miesian International Style glass box skyscraper. Gordon Bunshaft & Natalie de Blois, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, 1952. NYC's first curtain wall skyscraper.
Designed Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier, 1952. It is the Secretariat, where thousands toil at clerical jobs, and not the General Assembly that visually defines the UN complex.
Veniero’s Café, with its stamped copper ceilings, Italian marble floors, and stained glass ceilings, is an old world style Italian café.
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Rachael Ray can't get enough of The Noho Star, a restaurant in the East Village of New York, NY, serving Chinese and New American cuisine, on Food Network's $40 a Day. Find more tips at FN Local. Read more.
Designed by architect Emery Roth in 1929. Italian Renaissance style. Prices range from $2.5MM-$31MM (w/maximum allowable financing of 50%). Famous tenants include Jerry Seinfeld. More info in our blog Read more.
The new MFA in Interaction Design program trains students to research, analyze, prototype, and design concepts in their business, social, and cultural contexts. Proud to teach here.
It’s like Gramercy Park, but more secret and you don’t need a key! Go visit these impeccably kept gardens before a proposed skyscraper ruins the experience.
Be on time. These ferries are running like clockwork. In fact, be a few mins early.
Hop across the ivories of the famous piano dance mat on the second floor. Tell the pros who perform that it’s your kid’s birthday and they’ll tap out Happy Birthday!Powered by ParentsConnect.com
Walk to the center of Sheep Meadow for a great 360 degree photo opportunity of the surrounding city.
Meet at the Ghandi Statue, the one landmark in NYC, where the West side and the East side converge . . . and where D met his own Eastern-philosophy spouting pseudo-soul mate (Only in Your Dreams) Read more.
This East Village gathering point is one of the City of New York's early wi-fi adopters in partnership with AT&T. Read more.
Designed by Marcel Breuer, the Whitney Museum's current building opened in 1966. Jacqueline Kennedy attended the building on opening day.
This beloved outdoor venue hosts (mostly) free shows, from pop musicians to dance troupes. Tip: Don't want to battle crowds? Park yourself on the lawn bordering SummerStage to enjoy the music.
Head to Pier 1 to see Gotham in its full majesty. Enticing treats abound, especially at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. You can even drop in to hear first-rate chamber music at the floating barge.
Poured concrete Brutalist modernism courtesy of I. M. Pei, 1957-63 and Title I of the Federal housing act of 1949.
The best place to find your inner Zen boasts relaxed, peaceful grounds. Claim a spot near the serene Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, surrounded by Japanese myrtle and cypress trees, and bliss out. Read more.
Skillful stylish haircutting and coloring at reasonable NoMad/Koreatown prices. Staff is super friendly and nice. Soundtrack alternates between EDM and K-pop.
Stand in one corner in front of the Oyster Bar at Grand Central and have a friend stand on the other side and whisper. the other person can hear you...
Midtown East contains some of Manhattan’s most iconic skyscrapers, the mini-neighborhoods of Turtle Bay, Beekman, Tudor City and the Plaza District and several promising new construction condominiums Read more.
I'm obsessed with this indoor stall market. You can get fresh produce, fresh fish, fresh meats & cheeses in addition to flowers & coffee. And there's even a small bar at the end! So perfect.
Everyone thinks their cafe is the best but mine really is. Come for the Stumptown, stay for the Bagel Hole bagels. Bonus: warm and freshly baked choc-banana, ginger-raspberry, and blueberry muffins.
"It's my home-cooking spot. I understand why Patti Smith said it would be where she'd have her last meal." -Chloe Sevigny, in the WSJ's Insider's Guide to NYC Read more.
The magical part of the Noodle Bar experience isn't the great food (and everything IS GREAT).. But the lightning fast speed at which the food is ready after your order!
Little-known salon at the edge of Koreatown is comfortable, clean, friendly, does excellent work. They give you an iPad to browse while they cut or color.
Having trouble finding an art book? If it's not at this Chelsea mainstay, it probably does not exist.
JFK was originally named Idlewild Airport and was constructed in April 1942. On December 24, 1963, the airport was rededicated John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Did you know the New York Public Library system serves 16 million patrons annually?
Did you know that Columbus Circle is the point from which all official distances from New York City are measured?
Did you know? The Municipal Building is one of the largest government office buildings in the world, housing over 2,000 employees from municipal agencies in nearly 1 million square ft of office space. Read more.
In July 2012, East River Ferry ridership reached one million passengers, more than doubling expectations in just over its first year of service.
Fantastic spot to check out if you are either a professional or an aspiring photographer. Or if you are interested in the history of the photograph/camera.
This iconic NYC venue relocated to Brooklyn and dramatically improved the sound and stage. Read more.
Go here late at night and just sit on the sundial, take in the architecture and relax. If you need a bathroom, ask a security guard, they'll let you into the law school.
The scores of Hasidic Jewish salesmen at B&H have the biggest inventory and the best prices in town. It's like Epcot Center for the bargain shopper. Closed on Shabbos, open on Christmas! - IFC Staff
This area was originally named Longacre Square but was renamed in 1904 when the NY Times moved to the skyscraper now known as One Times Square at 42nd St., famous for the Times Square Ball drop.
I had naively originally thought Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture was unique to Philadelphia’s LOVE park. I couldn’t have been more wrong. The original image was designed for the Museum of Modern Art Read more.
The ultimate post-mortem vanity plate to himself, Joseph Pulitzer left $50,000 for the Pulitzer Fountain, to be erected in Grand Army Plaza at the South Eastern tip of Central Park. Read more.
Paris Hilton grew up here. We asked her what it was like to live in a hotel... Read more.
Stake your claim at a table on the elevated platform in the middle of the atrium (it has power outlets in the floor!). Then do some serious email checking and people-watching from your lofty perch.
As different from Macy's as Fifth Avenue is from 34th Street. Worth visiting as a New York experience even if you aren't shopping. Maybe especially if you aren't shopping.
Save time and DON'T go thru the front entrance on Central Park West to get in. Instead, go in thru the planetarium on 81st and pay using the automated kiosks. Way shorter line.
Thank publisher Joseph Pulitzer—yes, that Pulitzer—for stimulating enough American donations to pay for Lady Liberty’s pedestal. His statue is at the walkway near the left entrance to the statue. Read more.
Love the arts? Explore one of the world’s most extensive collections of historic recordings, videotapes, sheet music, stage designs, posters, and photographs at the Library for the Performing Arts. Read more.
See the old City Hall stop, one of NYC’s most majestic stations with vaulted ceilings and Art Nouveau skylights. Stay on the downtown 6 as it passes through the station on its way to the uptown track. Read more.
Check out the famous Unicorn Tapestries, the 12th-century Fuentidueña Chapel and the Annunciation Triptych by Robert Campin.
Great for urban basics. When it comes time to try on, head to the back, unmarked fitting room downstairs. No line! Also, this is the store where Fashism was conceived. Hurray!
Cutest toy store ever. Nicest owners too, and they have this really adorable shaggy dog that just walks around while you shop. They have a lot of throwback toys. It makes you feel like a kid again
Historic Fun Fact: In September, 1776, 4,000 British forces arrived in what it now known as the Landing of Kip's Bay. The storming troops quickly took hold of NYC. Learn more on MetroFocus. Read more.
One of the most spectacular spaces in the city, if not the country. Worth it for the Tiffany stuff, the Georgian facade and the Frank Lloyd Wright room alone.
The East River Ferry is by far and away the best transportation method if you are going from DUMBO to Williamsburg or E. Midtown. And it's not bad for proposals either...
Enjoy free tours of SIBL Thursdays at 2 p.m. Read more.
Check out the website for more info! http://www.826nyc.org/ Read more.
There is sometimes a small, secret exhibit on display on the staircase. So avoided the slow, crowded elevators. Take the stairs!
The best literary hot spot boasts a warm atmosphere, well-curated selection and convivial café. It also has the city’s first Espresso Book Machine, which prints a growing number of texts on demand. Read more.
Check out the free Saturday Storytimes (at 12 noon) with creative craft activities, just right for kids ages 3-8.Powered by ParentsConnect.com Read more.
I like Frank a lot, and both Jen and Steve are great too! They prescribe organic herbs for you, which you can pick up at Kamwo herbs on grand street. Definitely recommend it!!
Be sure to take notice of the exceptional staff...friendly workers = friendly patrons
NYC [Read] Come to the Map Room inside NYPL to unfurl decades/centuries old map scrolls and explore old world and old manhattan! Oh the places you'll go!
The best place to forget that you’re in NYC is crammed with gardens, forests and other quiet nooks that are perfect for chilling out. No visit here is complete without a stop by the Cloisters. Read more.
The best place to see museum-quality gallery shows has perfected this high-end form. Shows such as “Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’Amour Fou” prove you don’t have to be MoMA to stage a blockbuster. Read more.
The best place to see museum-quality gallery shows has perfected this high-end form. Shows such as “Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’Amour Fou” prove you don’t have to be MoMA to stage a blockbuster. Read more.
This adored staple of Off Broadway also produces Under the Radar, the best Off-Off Broadway festival. Jump on tickets to see the daring international program of experimental theater. Read more.
The best store to blow your paycheck in stocks covetable finds from around the world—both luxury threads and more affordable goods like indie mags, CDs and hip accessories. Read more.
The best theater to see a movie that will change your life hosts new art-house titles (at its Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center), rep series and beaucoup festival offerings. Read more.
The best theater to catch your favorite old movie has exquisite repertory and revival programming such as pre-Code oldies, ’70s NYC crime thrillers and French classics —plus gourmet snacks! Read more.
UCBT is the best place to laugh at funny people before they end up on TV. Nearly every sitcom on NBC’s Thursday-night lineup features performers who honed their craft at the Chelsea venue. Read more.
Together with 92YTribeca, this is the best place in NYC to see a not-boring lecture. The 137-year-old organization hosts literary conversations, current events discussions and evenings of sing-alongs. Read more.
The best year-round market brings together 150 local vendors carrying all manner of vintage, handmade and antique wares. The Flea will move to its winter location on November 26.
The best year-round market brings together 150 local vendors carrying all manner of vintage, handmade and antique wares. The Flea will move to its winter location on November 26. Read more.
The best year-round market brings together 150 local vendors carrying all manner of vintage, handmade and antique wares. The Flea moves here on November 26. Read more.
The best place to remember why you love Queens contains the Mets stadium, the New York Hall of Science, the home of the US Open, the iconic Unisphere. and the Queens Museum of Art. Read more.
Ed Koch's spirit will live on at City Hall, on the bridge that bears his name, and all across the five boroughs: http://bit.ly/Xc6Uxd
Anytime I'm on Wooster Street, I try to swing by even if just for 2 minutes. If you catch the Earth Room just after they've watered the dirt it is especially awesome.
The woman who is revolutionizing the sale of photography through her 20x200 company also runs a small but ambitious gallery in SoHo. Founded only in 2003, it has already picked some winners. Read more.
Lesley Heller Workspace allows anyone to make curatorial suggestion submissions through their website.
Check out the New York Interiors (1690-1906) permanent exhibition. It features elements of New York domestic environments from the late 17th through the early 20th centuries. Read more.
Henry Clay Frick's former residence may have the densest collection of masterpieces in Manhattan, with works by Titian, Turner, and Vermeer, among others. Read more.
after a long ride, try something simple like their take on a lemonade: purified water, lemon juice, agave. i tried the heavier combinations and i just couldn't take it (need to get used to the tastes)
If you look across the st. From 30 Wall St. you will see a building that has some crators on the side of it. It is from a bomb blast back in the 20s that killed hundreds of people.
Step into Chinatown, a world of its own, where more than 2 million NYC residents live. There is great authentic Chinese food here and street vendors are all over.
Alphabet City was once part of a thriving German immigrant community known as Kleindeutschland.
When in little Italy, don't get overwhelmed-go to il Cortile - it's the best. trust me, I'm Italian ;> Read more.
If you’re pining for a stretch of green, the welcome lawns, statues, street entertainers, and dog-walking areas of Washington Square Park run off W 4th Street. Read more.
Second Avenue has become the East Village's Restaurant Row. Take a stroll down it, choose from a wide variety of cuisines: Italian, Mediterranean, Asian, Indian, Mexican, American.
The West Village's placid, tree-lined blocks have played starring roles in a number of television and movies -- “Sex and the City” being the most notable recent example. Read more.
Welcome, friends, welcome. You have entered arguably the best neighborhood on the island of Manhattan. Chockablock with excellent food, shops and sites that will instantly make you forget the villages
The best neighborhood in the city after living in Chelsea for years... Live on the river at 42nd street - the attached pic is from our rooftop clubhouse
There's no more fast enhanced license lane, and yes, you have to get a number to exchange an out of state license. Ah, Camelot, I hardly knew thee.
Pinguins are on a room with very cold weather. Very good, not like other zoos.
Asser Levy is one of two NYC Recreation Centers with both an indoor and outdoor pool. The outdoor pool, used during the summer, is 120 feet long, and four feet deep. Read more.
Quietly exciting, historically dense boho neighborhood in the East 20s straddles Flatiron, Kips Bay, Curry Hill, and the East Village.
Don't miss the Feast of San Gennaro, held here after Labor Day each year on Mulberry Street between Houston and Grand Streets.
One of the leading botanical gardens in the world and home to many plant laboratories
Small, peaceful, quiet gym tucked into an obscure corner of Nomad/Murray Hill. Clean and well equipped. Nice shower.
Terminal 4 arrivals now has passport verification machines for returning US citizens. The process takes 2 minutes instead of the usual 2 hours.
Make sure you see the Tiffany Diamond on the main floor in the NW corner... it's priceless and Audrey Hepburn is one of the only 2 ppl to ever wear it
I buy my cameras here. Great place. Sales people know cameras inside and out. They always remember you, they know what you need before you do, and they always have a deal to offer.
The best New York-focused museum is housed in a decommissioned subway station. Make sure to see the excellent collection of vintage subway cars. Read more.
Best way to avoid the crowd?- be in the parade yourself! Super fun, great bunch of people, great chance to see all the costumes up close...just make sure you bring plenty of water& umbrella for shade
The schedules appear to be more like guidelines, +/- a few minutes.
Gateway to Brighton Beach summer fun on the Q Train.
Despite the opening of a Starbucks, the neighborhood where I grew up is far from trendy. Come for some off the beaten path places to eat and coffee at Dunkin' Donuts -- a Nathan's back in the 80s.
This manmade park, seemingly a welcome bit of nature against NYC's harsh conditions and strict grid, is actually a masterpiece of architecture. Every detail, down to the smallest rock, was planned.
amazing store. they change the theme of the products/visual layout every 6 weeks. super unique products. at all price ranges. GO HERE.
Visit this awesome little gem of a store for eclectic, one of a kind items. Now you can even pick up a bottle of BluePrintJuice here to take with you on the go for some fresh pressed goodness!
Amnesty International headquarters in the USA! We also have offices in DC, San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta.
Built in 1902 by architect Ralph S. Townsend and bought in 1907 by George S. Bowdoin, a philanthropist and business partner of J.P. Morgan, it is currently for sale for $6,400,000.
One of the best improv spots in NYC. It's more of a social club than a bar. The bartenders are legends.
Great food in Times Square? And vegan to boot? Believe it. 100% of profits go to charities helping sex workers get off the street. Reservation suggested.
Performing arts neighborhood centered around Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Juliard School, LaGuardia HS of the Arts, and the Performing Arts Library.
