Attraction
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met on Fifth Avenue is one of the world's great encyclopaedic art museums, spanning five thousand years of art from every corner of the globe.
Attraction
The Met on Fifth Avenue is one of the world's great encyclopaedic art museums, spanning five thousand years of art from every corner of the globe.
Attraction
The copper statue gifted by France in 1886 stands on Liberty Island, reached by ferry from The Battery or Liberty State Park with Ellis Island included.
Attraction
Manhattan's 843-acre green heart stretches from 59th to 110th Street, with lakes, meadows, bridges and landmarks such as Bethesda Terrace and Bow Bridge.
Attraction
MoMA in Midtown holds one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary art, from Van Gogh and Picasso to film, design and photography.
Attraction
The 1931 Art Deco tower on Fifth Avenue remains Midtown's defining skyscraper, with two observation decks and exhibits on the building's history.
Attraction
Facing Central Park, this natural history museum is known for its dinosaur halls, the blue whale model, the Rose Center planetarium and the Gilder Center.
Café
A Viennese-style café inside the Neue Galerie on Museum Mile, serving Austrian pastries, coffee and dishes amid period furnishings.
Café
A Greenwich Village café open since 1927 that claims to have introduced cappuccino to America, with an ornate 1902 espresso machine on display.
Café
Brooklyn coffee roaster Devoción's Williamsburg café serves fresh Colombian coffee sourced directly from farms, in a converted industrial building.
Hotel
Opened in 1907 at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, the Fairmont-managed Plaza is one of New York's most storied grand hotels.
Hotel
A discreet Upper East Side landmark run by Rosewood, home to the mural-lined Bemelmans Bar and the Café Carlyle cabaret room.
Hotel
An intimate Tribeca luxury hotel with a residential feel, the Shibui Spa and pool, a courtyard, and the Italian restaurant Locanda Verde.
Hotel
A glass-fronted Meatpacking District hotel straddling the High Line, with river and skyline views, The Standard Grill and the Le Bain rooftop.
Hotel
A design-forward hotel on the edge of SoHo with compact rooms, bunk-bed options, a courtyard, and rooftop cocktails with Hudson River views.
Hotel
A 175-room Williamsburg hotel near the waterfront, with Manhattan views, a rooftop Israeli grill and a busy lobby café-bar.
Bar
A tiny, wedge-shaped basement jazz club on Seventh Avenue South that has hosted the music's greats at the same address since 1935.
Bar
The Carlyle hotel's elegant piano bar, painted with whimsical murals by Madeline illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans, with nightly piano and late jazz.
Bar
Dating from 1854, this sawdust-floored East Village tavern serves its own house ale and is one of New York's oldest continuously run bars.
Bar
A 22nd-floor rooftop bar atop The William Vale in Williamsburg, serving cocktails and small plates with sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline.
Bar
The Standard, High Line's top-floor bar and club in the Meatpacking District, known for sunset cocktails, Hudson River views and late-night dancing.
Restaurant
A Lower East Side institution since 1888, famous for hand-carved pastrami on rye, corned beef and its role in When Harry Met Sally.
Restaurant
The original Greenwich Village slice shop founded in 1975 by Naples-born Joe Pozzuoli, serving classic thin New York-style pizza by the slice.
Restaurant
A Brooklyn steakhouse dating from 1887 at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge, known for dry-aged porterhouse served in a beer-hall-style dining room.
Restaurant
Eric Ripert's Midtown seafood restaurant has held three Michelin stars for years and remains a benchmark for refined French cooking with fish.
Restaurant
Danny Meyer's Flatiron restaurant, open since 1994, pairs a seasonal tasting-menu Dining Room with a more casual, wood-grill-led front Tavern.
Restaurant
The sit-down cafe of the century-old Lower East Side appetizing shop, serving smoked fish platters, bagels, latkes and egg creams.
Thing to do
Three tiers of observation decks atop 30 Rockefeller Plaza give unobstructed views of Central Park and a front-on look at the Empire State Building.
Thing to do
A food hall and shopping arcade inside a former Nabisco factory in Chelsea, packed with vendors selling seafood, tacos, bread, gelato and more.
Thing to do
An immersive, mirror-lined observation experience at the top of One Vanderbilt, beside Grand Central Terminal, with glass-floored ledges and art installations.
Thing to do
The free, round-the-clock commuter ferry between Lower Manhattan and Staten Island offers views of the Statue of Liberty and the harbour skyline.
Thing to do
The neon-lit junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue is the heart of the Theater District, home to the TKTS booth and the New Year's Eve ball…
Tour operator
A long-running sightseeing cruise company sailing from Pier 83 on West 42nd Street, with full-island, half-island and evening harbour tours.
Tour operator
Founded in 1991, Big Onion runs history-focused walking tours led by historians and graduate students across around 20 New York neighbourhoods.
Tour operator
A New York food tour company running tasting walks since 1999 through Greenwich Village, Chelsea Market and the High Line, Chinatown and beyond.
Tour operator
A walking tour company running guided tours in Manhattan and Brooklyn since 2009, with a pay-what-you-wish option on most public tours.
Tour operator
Cruises around New York Harbor on classically styled sailing schooners and motor yachts, departing year-round from Chelsea Piers.