New York City
This open-air public museum of street art features 35 freestanding walls transformed each season into colorful murals by emerging and renowned graffiti…
Must-see attractions in New York City
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
David Zwirner operates several galleries around Chelsea, including this five-story, sustainability-certified building with 30,000 sq ft of exhibition…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
An icon of the art world, Paula was one of the first to move from SoHo to Chelsea in 1996 (she was also one of SoHo's pioneers, opening the first gallery…
SoHo & Chinatown
This small but worthy stop encourages kids aged 10 months to 15 years to view, make and share art. Rotating exhibitions aside, the center offers a vast…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
Curator Barbara Gladstone has learned a thing or two after three decades in the Manhattan art world. Expect talked-about, well-critiqued exhibitions from…
SoHo & Chinatown
The former home and studio of the late American artist Donald Judd offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and artistic practices of the minimalist…
Upper West Side & Central Park
In Central Park, between 73rd and 78th Sts, the leafy 38-acre Ramble is a wooded thicket that’s popular with bird-watchers. It's easy to lose your way in…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
Geographically, White Columns is part of the Meatpacking District, but aesthetically speaking, it's in Chelsea. The sedate, multiroom space hosts a wide…
New York City
Making stunning use of a red-brick warehouse with wood-beamed ceilings, Pioneer Works hosts progressive, avant-garde temporary art exhibitions from…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
Founded in 1991, this gallery exhibits the work of American and European artists making use of many different media, from painting to printmaking to…
Upper West Side & Central Park
This neoclassical fountain is one of New York’s largest. It’s capped by the Angel of the Waters, who is supported by four cherubim. The fountain, created…
Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Greenpoint & Bushwick
Opened to the public in 2018, five-acre Domino Park has a riverside walkway with big Manhattan views and a playground styled like big metal pipes –…
Upper West Side & Central Park
This Parisian-style promenade – allegedly the only straight line in Central Park – lined with rare North American elms, is flanked by statues of literati…
New York City
Beneath the breathtaking Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and located inside Fort Hamilton, military buffs will discover a small treasure trove of artifacts at…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
In 1831 Albert Gallatin, formerly Secretary of the Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, founded an intimate center of higher learning open to all…
Gateway National Recreation Area
New York City
Consisting of several, disparate geographic 'units' totaling 27,000 National Park Service–run acres, Gateway is possibly most well known for its Sandy…
New York City
This neighborhood park in the heart of Red Hook is flanked by verdant hedges and trees, with rolling lawns where families picnic, adjacent basketball…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
This red-brick hotel, built in the 1880s and featuring ornate iron balconies and no fewer than seven plaques declaring its literary landmark status, has…
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
New York City
When it was completed in 1929, this 512ft neo-Romanesque cathedral to commerce was the tallest building in Brooklyn, its 17ft-wide tower clockface, then…
Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Greenpoint & Bushwick
Built in 1903 to link Williamsburg and the Lower East Side (at Delancey St), this steel-frame suspension bridge helped transform the area into a teeming…
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Upper West Side & Central Park
This small museum features interactive exhibits scaled down for the 0 to 10-year-old set, including toddler discovery programs and exhibits that stimulate…
Upper West Side & Central Park
Built between 1847 and 1851 (one of two buildings whose construction predates Central Park) as a munitions supply depot for the New York State National…
New York City
The pink-and-mint-green Deno’s Wonder Wheel dates back all the way to 1920 (fear not: it gets a yearly overhaul and has never had an accident). It's the…
SoHo & Chinatown
This humble museum offers a random mishmash of historical objects documenting early Italian life in NYC, from Sicilian marionettes to old Italian comics…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
Still known to many as the Christopher St Pier, this is an 850ft-long finger of concrete, spiffily renovated with a grass lawn, flower beds, a comfort…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
Founded in 1817, this is the oldest seminary of the Episcopal Church in America. The school, which sits in the midst of the beautiful Chelsea historic…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
This historical dot on the landscape (just a quarter-acre) is a lovely little patch of green, home to grassy knolls, beds of perennial flowers and winding…
New York City
This small (12 acre) zoo features a variety of crowd-pleasing animals dotted around sections such as the Discovery Trail (red pandas, dingos, river otters…
New York City
The former Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge #79 was rescued from its partially submerged state under the George Washington Bridge and painstakingly restored…
Upper West Side & Central Park
A turreted, gabled building described in 1884 as so far uptown it was in 'the Dakotas,' this sand-colored gem quickly became the epitome of cool, housing…
Union Square, Flatiron District & Gramercy
On the southwestern corner of Broadway and E 20th St stands the old Lord & Taylor Building, former home of the famous Midtown department store (now a…
SoHo & Chinatown
It's been serving New York's immigrant communities since 1801, and the Church of the Transfiguration doesn't stop adapting. First it was the Irish, then…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
The shape of a triangle, Sheridan Sq isn't much more than a few park benches and some trees surrounded by an old-fashioned wrought-iron gate. But its…
Bedford-Stuyvesant Museum of African Art
New York City
Art and cultural artefacts from 40 different African countries are displayed within this neighborhood museum, including ritual headdresses, fertility…
New York City
A long-standing mural to neighborhood son Biggie Smalls (aka the Notorious B.I.G.) blazes from Quincy St in scarlet and gold. Fittingly for hip-hop…
New York City
This kid-friendly aquarium has several different exhibits around its central courtyard. Penguins, otters and seals frolic in the Sea Cliffs display. The…
SoHo & Chinatown
Now a designer shoe store, this was once the Ravenite Social Club, an infamous mobster hangout. It was right here that big hitters such as John Gotti (as…
Upper West Side & Central Park
The oldest building in Central Park, the Blockhouse is a military fortification from the War of 1812. It's located in the North Woods, on the west side of…
Eastern States Buddhist Temple
SoHo & Chinatown
This storefront temple smack in the middle of Chinatown's bustle is a quiet little refuge lined with hundreds of Buddhas. You can buy a souvenir or…
New York City
This shady, one-block street contains a coveted series of beaux-arts row houses, most of which were built by Paris-educated Charles Pierrepont Henry…
