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NEW ADDITIONS!
- [BAMN]**
Bamn provides tasty, inexpensive, real food for people on the go. It's the return of the automat, filled with bite-sized burgers, mac & cheese, pizza, chicken strips, grilled cheese, hot dogs, pork buns, and lots of other great stuff - made fresh throughout the day.
- [DESSERT TRUCK!]**
Providing goodies to the masses out of a truck!
- [Vnyl]**
Great food and the coolest bathrooms possibly in the world. People go to this place just to see the bathrooms.
These bathrooms are in an open room and are behind clear glass doors. When you enter the stall, it senses that you are in there and the clear glass door become opaque and you can do your business. The above link is to the bar and this link is to the [YouTube Video] that shows the bathroom stall.
- [Pinkberry]**
REALLY GOOD FROZEN YOGURT!! TRY IT!!
As Seen on TV and New York's Funniest
- "Diff'rent Strokes"** building: 900 Park Avenue at 79th Street. No. 6 train to 77th.
- "The Jeffersons"** building: 185 East 85th at Third Avenue. Nos. 4, 5, 6 trains to 86th.
- "The Odd Couple"** building: 1049 Park Avenue, between 86th and 87th Streets. Nos. 4, 5, 6 trains to 86th Street.
- The Bunker residence (All in the family)**: 89-70 Cooper Avenue, betwenn Metropolitan Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, Glendale, Queens. M train to Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue, then take Q54 bus east to Cooper Avenue or R, V, G trains to Woodhaven Boulevard and take Q53 bus south to Cooper Avenue.
- Huxtable town house "The Cosby Show"**: 10 St. Luke's Place, between Hudson Street and Seventh Avenue South. No. 1 train to Houston Street.
- "Friends"** building: 90 Bedford Street at Grove. No. 1 train to Christopher Street.
- "Little Owl"**, 90 Bedford Street, (212)-741-8695; www.thelittleowlnyc.com.
- "La Tavernetta**, 75-01 88th Street, Glendale, Queens, (718)-896-3538
Shop 'til You Drop
Shop 'til you drop but don't spend a fortune at some of New York's fabulous thrift stores. Check out the [Memorial Sloan-Kettering Thift Shop] (1440 Third Avenue between 81st and 82nd) for clothing, jewelry, china, furniture and artwork. Help over 50 AIDS charities when you shop at Out of the Closet Thrift Shop (220 East 81st Street between Second and Third Avenues) for art, antiques, objets d'art, books and music. Give back to music when you pick up gorgeous accessories, clothes and decorating treasures at the [City Opera Thrift Shop] (222 E. 23rd Street between Second and Third Avenues). Don't be discouraged if you find a line at the [Housing Works Thrift Shop] (143 West 17th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues is one of several locations) where the hippest of the hip shop for clothing, art and accessories. Lots of new clothing can be found at the New York Hospital Thrift Shop (439 East 71st St.). Known for its daily sales, the Arthritis Foundation Thrift Shop (121 E. 77th Street) is small, but chock full of jewelry, designer clothing and furniture.
How much is that doggy in the window? If you need some furry happiness, head to 18 Christopher Street in the West Village and window shop at Le Petit Puppy where you will find the greatest collection of apartment-sized puppies and kittens waiting to be taken home.
Need a femur for your collection? Do your souvenir shopping at [Maxilla & Mandible, Ltd.], 451 Columbus Ave.
Start a new childhood at [F.A.O. Schwarz], 767 Fifth Avenue. Too crowded for you? Try [West Side Kids] (498 Amsterdam Avenue), Penny Whistle Toys (448 Columbus Avenue or 1283 Madison), Gepetto's Toy Box (10 Christopher Street), Kidding Around (60 West 15th Street) or Dinosaur Hill (306 East 9th Street) instead.
Search for treasures (and a bargain) on Saturdays and Sundays at the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market on 39th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.
Shop for all things Asian at Pearl River Mart, 477 Broadway.
Check out Canal, Delancey, Orchard and Essex Streets for Sunday [bargain] shopping.
See how many [GAPS] you can find.
Get lost in [Barney's] (or Bloomingdales, Saks or Macys).
Go treasure hunting at [Strand's], (the greatest used book store anywhere), Broadway & W. 12th Street.
Shop with the rich and famous in [Trump Tower], 725 Fifth Ave., stopping (of course!) in Tiffany's.
Be amazed at the cost of vegetables in [Dean & DeLuca], one of New York's finest gourmet food stores, Broadway & Prince. You can also peruse the newly opened [Balducci's] foodmarket on 14th St. and 8th Avenue.
Buy sunglasses on St. Mark's Place. Once the home to New York's hippies, today it's the hub of [East Village] culture. Grab a bite to eat at Dojo's, a major hub for NYU students because of the cheap prices and great food.
Buy some jewels down [Diamond Row] on 47th St., noticing the Hasidic Jews who have been integral to the market sine the 1930's.
Stroll through the [flower district] around Sixth Ave. and W. 28th St.
Hang out around 34th and 7th Ave., also known as [Fashion Ave.], to get a preview of what the fashion industry is up to.
Relish the paper and get inspired at [Kate's Paperie]: 561 Broadway in Soho (and other locations). Bring back your favorite sheets and use them to cover a book of photographs from your trip when you get back!
Good Eats
Go to MacDougal and Bleecker in the Village, choose a corner coffee house and linger with a latte.
Need a sweet pick-me-up? Try the rice pudding (in more than a dozen flavors from Coconut Coma to Sex, Drugs and Rocky Road) and your choice of toppings at [Rice to Riches], 37 Spring Street between Mott and Mulberry.
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and find [Grimaldi's Pizzeria] at 19 Fulton Street //under the Brooklyn Bridge//! Legions of fans will argue that it's the best in New York.
Hungry? Try fast and cheap [La Cocina] on 8th Ave. between 46th and 47th Streets. Or grab it on the go with the best [street vendor food] in NYC!
Eat a hot dog made especially for you by a [Sabrett's] vendor.
Eat a hot pretzel while dashing to the [subway].
Try some of those [fresh-roasted chestnuts] you can find on the street corners.
Grab a [souvlaki] on your way to the theatre.
Eat the best hamburger you'll find anywhere at [Jackson Hole], WY, Third Ave. at 36th Street.
Go for kosher [Ratner's Dairy Restaurant] , 138 Delancey (complete with the meanest waiters in New York!).
Chow down on blintzes, knish and pierogies at [Little Poland], 200 2nd Avenue between 12th & 13th...the food is great, but the patrons alone are worth it. Or give Veselka a shot (144 2nd Avenue) - the chicken soup is to die for and the specialty pierogies can't be beat.
Take a bite out of a sandwich at [Katz's Deli], 205 E. Houston, and recreate the famous scene from When Harry Met Sally. Be sure to hold on to your ticket though...you'll need it to get out. Don't substitute other breads for the rye bread unless you want to risk being yelled at by the guy beind the counter.
Stand on line for great brick oven pizza at [John's], 278 Bleeker St., near Seventh Ave. Favorite hang-out of the not-always-rich, but usually famous. If you are in mid-town, John's has locations in Times Square at 260 W. 44th Street and at Lincoln Center, 48 W. 65th Street.
Have falafel at [Mamoun's] at MacDougal and Bleeker...or walk a block downtown to Yatagan Kebab House and have the most amazing doner kebab from the take-out window.
Venture to Chinatown for unbelievable (and incredibly cheap!) soup at [Family Noodle] restaurant, 19 Henry Street.
If you ever wanted to try some different types of sushi, but never felt like you wanted to order them in a restaurant only to find that you didn't care for them, save your appetite and step into Minado, 6 E. 32nd Street (between Fifth & Madison) where you will find the largest sushi and Japanese food buffet you have ever seen. Excellent selection, great quality (for a sushi buffet) and a good price.
Find your dinner in a [Korean corner market], either from the produce out front or the food bar inside.
Order a Reuben at [Carnegie's] (some say the best deli in the city), 854 7th Avenue, and have enough food for the rest of your trip.
Want some late nght grub? Pizza abounds but for a change of pace, check out [Big Arc Chicken] (233 First Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets)—a late-night East Village hangout whose menu pleases both carnivores and vegetarians!
Grab a drink and a bite to eat after the show at www.angusmcindoe.com McIndoe's (258 W. 44th Street between Broadway & Eighth Avenue). Be on the lookout for your favorite actors, directors and producers—they'll probably be at the table next to yours.
If you're in the East Village, grab a bite at the [East Fouth Street Bar] (78 E 4th Street between Bowery & Second Avenue) and peel your eyes for the downtown actor-types who may be on their way home from New York Theatre Workshop or LaMaMa. The mac and cheese is excellent and cheap!
Get a bagel with cream cheese and coffee at [Zabar's], Broadway & 82nd St.
Need something to satisfy your sweet tooth after your bagel? Wander down to [Beard Papa] on Broadway between 76th & 77th for heavenly cream puffs that are filled when you order them and not a moment before. Don't worry, this Japanese chain has a downtown location as well (740 Broadway at Astor Place).
Visit the "Sturgeon King" at [Barney Greengrass] (541 Amsterdam Avenue between 86th & 87th)...you'll think the prices are outrageous until you try their sturgeon, or sable or lox...suddenly $25 seems more than reasonable.
Chow down at [Sylvia's], the soul food restaurant of New York, 328 Lenox Ave.
Are you tired after a long morning of walking the streets? It must be time for tea. Eschew Starbucks and do it the way it was meant to be done - a proper English Tea with sandwiches and scones with clotted cream and jam. Try the [Rotunda at the Pierre] (2 East 61st Street), The Astor Court at the St. Regis (2 East 55th Street), Lady Mendl's (56 Irving Place) or Podunk (231 East 5th Street).
Eat a slice of [Ray's Famous], in several places around the city, and especially on Sixth Ave. at W. 11th St.
Be amazed at the cost of vegetables in [Dean & DeLuca], one of New York's finest gourmet food stores, Broadway & Prince. You can also peruse the newly opened [Balducci's] foodmarket on 14th St. and 8th Avenue.
Behind an unmarked door at 86 Bedford Street, you'll find a Prohibition era speakeasy called [Chumley's]. Order a burger and ask your waiter where the the term "eighty-six it" comes from.
Experience a New York Institution, Edison Cafe, 228 W. 47th Street, where you can get great food (excellent matzoh ball soup and scrumptious potato pancakes, delicous borscht and creamy blintzes and the real deal deli sandwiches) in the atmosphere of what was once a very fancy (now very faded) hotel ballroom. Keep your eyes open for famous folk. . . you never know who you will spy grabbing a bite at what regulars call The Polish Tearoom.
Experience Little India on 6th St. between 1st and 2nd Ave. For the best food and atmosphere, check out [Panna II] on the corner of 1st Ave. Be sure to order the Mixed Appetizer Platter for starters.
Sample the tiramisu (or, at the very least, a real cannoli!) in [Little Italy] on Mulberry.
Socialize at the [Nuyorican Poets Cafe], 236 E. 3rd St. in New York's festive Hispanic neighborhood, Loisaida.
Check out the lycee fruit in Little Korea near [Herald Square].
Grab a pickle at the [Essex Street Pickle Company] (made famous by the film Crossing Delancey) in the heart of the old Jewish neighborhood.
Pass some time, as did Dylan Thomas, at the [White Horse Tavern] in the Village.
Consider the curiosity of inspiration by meandering past [Caffe Torino] on Greenwich Ave. at W. 10th St. where Edward Albee was inspired by the question “Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?” scratched on a mirror in the restroom. (Find his home at 50 W. 10th.)
Conduct a star watch at [Sardi's], 234 W. 44th St.
Taste a bit of Italy at [Veneiro's], a real Italian bakery at 11th St. between 1st & 2nd Ave. Make sure to try the biscotti and tiramisu!
“Come to the Life Cafe after Maureen's show . . . ” Live the life of a [RENT] character and grab a bite to eat at 343 E. 10th St. at Avenue B.
Observe East Village life: Check out the ultra cool [Yaffa Cafe] on St. Mark's Place, open 24 hours.
Missing good ole Southern BBQ? Go to [Virgil’s] on 45th at 6th Avenue.
Hungry for Italian? Try [Carmine’s] on 44th between 7th & 8th Avenues . . . cheap!
For really, really good Mexican food, stroll over to [Hell’s Kitchen] on 9th Avenue between 46th & 47th. Excellent food, excellent prices. You’ll never go back to Taco Bell.
Bagels are better in New York than anywhere else. It’s the water. You’ll have no shortage of bakeries to try . . . some like [H&H] (2239 Broadway between 102nd & 103rd or 639 West 46th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues) and some like Absolute (2788 Broadway, between 107th & 108th). A good New York bagel proves that a bagel is like eating five slices of bread all crushed together!
Like pickles? Step back 100 years and visit a pickle shop that hasn’t seen much change since it opened at the beginning of the last century. For about a dollar you can buy two pickles from a barrel at [Guss’ Pickles] (on Orchard Street between Broome and Grand Streets).
There’s no pizza better than New York pizza. For original New York pizza, visit [Lombardi’s] at 32 Spring Street (between Elizabeth and Mott). Lombardi’s was the first licensed pizzeria in New York, introducing the pies in 1905. Go with an appetite because you can’t buy a slice (only a pie!) at this New York institution.
Are you a foodie? Visit [Chelsea Market] at 75 9th Avenue (between 15th and 16th), the birthplace of the Oreo Cookie! Celebrate the hydrox while you nibble your way through Sarabeth’s, Amy’s Breads, Fat Witch Bakery, Hale & Hearty Soups, Chelsea Thai, among others. Upstairs is the headquarters for Rose Brand, one of the leading suppliers of theatrical fabrics and draperies, as well as the Food Network and Oxygen. Free WiFi!
Introduce yourself to local, mostly organic farmers at [Union Square Greenmarket] on Monday, Wednesday, Fridays and Saturdays. Go there early and you may spot one of New York's celebrity chef's checking out the loot for their weekend specials.
Wait in line for 30 minutes for New York's most famous cupcakes at the [Magnolia Bakery], Bleecker St at 11th St., and watch for passing celebs who live nearby. Or explore the current "cupcake battle" waging in the city between Magnolia and some of it's offshoots. Go on a tasting tour and judge for yourself...try Buttercup Bake Shop (51st Street and 2nd Avenue), Billy's Bakery in Chelsea (Ninth Avenue between 21st & 22nd), or Sugar Sweet Sunshine on the Lower East Side (126 Rivington between Essex and Norfolk).
Do you love a good PB&J? Head to [Peanut Butter & Co.] (240 Sullivan Street) and discover variations that you never even dreamed of. (Peanut Butter BLT anyone?)
You'll never grab for a Hershey's bar again...try real homemade chocolates from one of these old school New York confectioners...[Li-Lac] at 40 Eighth Avenue and Varsano's Chocolates at 179 West 4th Street (the kookaburra licorice is also well worth it - and highly addictive!)
Gray's Papaya or [Papaya King]? Grab a dog and a papaya juice at each establishment and decide for yourself who wins the hot dog war. Gray's Papaya has 2 locations, both open 24 hours so that you can get your fix, anytime day or night - 402 Sixth Avenue, and 2090 Broadway. Papaya King has been around since 1932- 14th Street & 7th Avenue, 179 East 86th Street, and 121 West 125th.
Breakfast out at the [Popover Cafe] on the upper west side at 551 Amsterdam Avenue. The popovers literally melt in your mouth.
Interested in cooking? Stock up on spices at New York's oldest, most revered spicemonger—[Kalustyan's], 123 Lexington Avenue (at 28th Street).
Look, Mom, I'm on TV
Hang out at the [Ed Sullivan Theatre], 1697 Broadway, and maybe you can answer the pay phone when Letterman calls.
Try your luck at [Saturday Night Live tickets]. Stake your claim on the 50th Street side of Rockefeller Center by 7 a.m. Saturday for 9:15 a.m. distribution.
Try to get tickets for [Conan O'Brien] at the New York Experience Store on 49th between 5th & 6th. They start distributing at 9am.
Be another hopeful at the [Apollo], 253 W. 125th Street.
Buy sunglasses on St. Mark's Place. Once the home to New York's hippies, today it's the hub of [East Village] culture. Grab a bite to eat at Dojo's, a major hub for NYU students because of the cheap prices and great food.
Wave to the world at the [NBC Today] windows.
Use that Noggin
Find the former home of [James Dean], 19 W. 68th Street.
Lose yourself in the Temple of Dendar at the [Met], 1000 5th Ave., the largest museum in the western hemisphere.
Take a stroll on 41st Street between Park and Fifth Avenues and ponder [Library Way], 96 bronze plaques that quote 45 writers embedded in the sidewalk.
Delight in the space age art at [Star Magic], 743 Broadway.
Visit the [Hotel des Artistes] at One W. 67th St. , and daydream of its previous tenants - Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, Noël Coward.
Who's buried in [Grant's Tomb]? Find out at W. 122nd St. & Riverside Dr.
Visit the [Schomburg Center for Research into Black Culture], 515 Lenox Ave., the most important collection relating to the Harlem Renaissance.
Live the Age of Innocence by visiting the Villard Houses at 457 Madison Ave. or the period rooms at the [Museum of the City of New York] (103rd St. & 5th Ave.)
Visit Picasso's Goat, Monet's Water Lilies and Van Gogh's Starry Night at the [Museum of Modern Art], 11 W. 53rd St.
Visit Frank Lloyd Wright's only building in New York, the [Guggenheim Museum].
Behold Madame Gray's designs for Chanel in the [Costume Collection] at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave.
Find a brownstone in [Chelsea]. Or check out the iron architecture on Greene Street in SoHo.
Walk through the [Waldorf Astoria], a classic example of art deco at 301 Park Ave.
Stroll through the [galleries in SoHo].
Experience the final study of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La grande Jatte in the [Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1000 5th Ave.
Find TriBeCa and stop in [Let There Be Neon] gallery at 38 White Street.
Visit 179 E. 93rd St., once home to the [Marx Brothers].
Visit John Tenniel's classic illustrations for Alice at the [Pierpont Morgan Library] at 29 E. 36th St.
Visit O'Keefe, Warhol, Calder and Hopper in the [Whitney Museum of American Art], 945 Madison Ave.
Visit Whistler and Vermeer in the [Frick Collection], 1 E. 70th St.
Take a look at [Ethical Culture] at 63rd and Central Park West and try to remember what playwright mentioned this society and its school.
Find [Twin Peaks] at 102 Bedford St. in the Village where an architect designed a quirky house to stir the creativity of the artists, writers and actors who lived there.
More people lived in tenements in New York than lived on the great plains in the early 19th century. Visit the Lower East Side [Tenement Museum] and learn more about New York's early citizens.
Pay homage to [Patience and Fortitude], the lions who guard the New York Public Library New York Public Library.
One of Manhattan’s newest museums is the [Museum of Sex] at 233 Fifth Avenue (@ 27th Street) dedicating to preserving and presenting the history of human sexuality and its impact on society. Always graphic, sometimes titillating and oddly academic, a sign at the entrance implores, “Please do not touch, lick, stroke or mount the exhibits.”
Get a Job, you bum!
Gauge your chances for Admission to [NYU School of the Arts] graduate program by stopping by the Admissions Office, just off of Washington Square.
Check out the job listings at the [Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York], 131 Varik St.
Pick up a [Village Voice] and take a look at the "First Call" column. Stop by an equity audition.
See how much you have left to read by visiting [Drama Book Shop], 250 West 40th Street. Pick up a copy of the Theatrical Index - you'll get the inside scoop, along with hundreds of contact numbers for people in the business.
Audit a class for only $10 at [HB Studio] located at 120 Bank St. and disover what the professional world has to offer.
Give my Regards to Broadway
Check out the 1/2 price tickets at [TKTS]. (Booths at Times Square and the South Street Seaport)
Do shows get better with age? Head to the [Majestic Theater] and decide for yourself. Phantom of the Opera has been playing there since 1988, making it the longest running show in Broadway history - 7,525 performances and counting.
Check out the [Actor's Studio] at 432 W. 44th Street and the Neighborhood Playhouse at 340 E. 54th Street.
Stroll through the [theatre district] at dusk, taking note of the actors entering the stage doors, looking above you to the dressing rooms where others are putting on their make-up, readying for the evening's performance.
Stroll down Christopher Street, the heart of the city's gay and lesbian neighborhood. Don't miss the [Lucille Lortel Theatre] (121 Christopher), one of the city's most important off-Broadway theatres.
Find the theatre founded by poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, the [Cherry Lane], at 38 Commerce Street.
Stop into the [Public Theater], home of the New York Shakespeare Festival, 425 Lafayette St.
One of the busiest rehearsal studios in Manhattan is the Lawrence A. Wein Center for Dance and Theatre at 890 Broadway. While you need a legitimate reason to be in the building, you never know who you might run into on the street!
Try to find the 37 theatres in [Times Square].
Gaze upon the oldest New York theatre, the [Lyceum] at 149 W. 45th St.
Look above you on the corner of 7th Ave. and W. 46th. for the [Miller Building], once known as "The Show Folks' Shoe Shop." Admire the statues of famous American actors who still watch over the theatre district.
Check out the [New Amsterdam Theater], 214 W. 42nd St., where Ziegfeld produced his Follies.
Stroll down Shubert Alley between W. 44th & 45th Streets. Revel in the theatre where [A Chorus Line] ran for 6,137 performances and Katherine Hepburn starred in The Philadelphia Story.
See the home of the world-famous [Rockettes], located at 50th St. & 7th Ave., and take the Radio City Music Hall tour
For a quintessential New York children’s experience, visit the [Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre] in Central Park. This idyllic theatre was originally a model schoolhouse built for Sweden’s exhibit for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
New York, New York
Take a ride that lets you know that Manhattan is, indeed, an island. Catch the [Staten Island Ferry] at the Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan and take in the island from a completely different perspective. Great views, the [Statue of Liberty] and it's all FREE! When you get to Staten Island, disembark and make the return trip for the same price as the first. The Ferry runs 24 hours . . . the view is particularly beautiful at night.
Ride the elevator inside the [Marriott Marquis].
Pick up a free [Village Voice] for the sole purpose of discovering this week's "Cheap Thrills," great stuff to do that costs less than $5. (Look in the Listings.)
Spend some time with the healing angel at the [Bethesda Fountain] in Central Park.
Check out the [Ghostbusters building] at 55 Central Park West.
Visit the [Cathedral of St. John the Divine], Amsterdam Ave. at W. 112th Street, which will one day be the largest cathedral in the world. Nearly one third complete, it already seats 10,000.
Check out home.nyc.rr.com/jkn/nysonglines New York Songlines, a great site in which contributors are mapping out New York, block-by-block with fascinating (and sometimes little-known) historical facts about the city.
Visit the Central Quadrangle on the campus of [Columbia University] at Amsterdam and W. 116th St.
Stroll through [Lincoln Center] (Columbus Ave. & W. 62nd) home to Avery Fisher Hall, The Vivian Beaumont & Mitzi Newhouse and New York State Theatres, along with the Julliard School, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera. Tours are given frequently, originating from the concourse level.
While at Lincoln Center, visit the [Library of Performing Arts].
Looking for a room with a view and expensive drinks to sip? Check out the [Mandarin Oriental] Hotel's Lobby Lounge (80 Columbus Circle at 60th Street), 35 floors above Central Park for a cityscape you will never forget.
Get some divine intervention at [Casa de las Velas] (60 E. 116th Street between Madison and Park Avenues), New York's premiere botanica in continuous operation since 1921. Suffering from love life blues, cash flow crises or general malaise? The expert Santeria clerks will prescribe anything from herbs to candles to incense to charms to cure our ills.
Look upon the [Dakota], One W. 72nd Street, the sight of John Lennon's murder, home to Yoko Ono and the setting for Rosemary’s Baby.
Find the [Grand Union] in the Village and discover the plot of land on which grows the natural vegetation of Manhattan - what the island would have looked like had Peter Minuit not bought it for $24.
Take the ferry to the [Statue of Liberty] and Ellis Island.
Observe the great baldachin in [St. Patrick's Cathedral], Fifth Ave. & 50th St., that takes its cues from the medieval mystery plays.
Visit [Wall Street].
Relish the statuary at the [United Nations] Plaza on First Ave. at 46th St.
Find New York's [narrowest house], 75 1/2 Bedford Street, at different times home to Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Barrymore and Cary Grant.
Stroll by the arch in [Washington Square Park].
Among the beautiful row houses on [St. Luke's Place], find No. 10, the home of the Huxtables from The Cosby Show. If you know Audrey Hepburn's Wait Until Dark, No. 4 will be familiar to you.
Visit The Players, a club founded by actor [Edwin Booth] in 1888.
Find the famous triangle made by the convergence of Fifth Ave., Broadway and 23rd St. and the famous skyscraper designed for it, the [Flatiron building]. Watch the doggies run.
Discover [Patchin Place] off West 10th St., a block that has been the home to e e cummings and Eugene O'Neill.
Spot the [Empire State Building] in the sky. Find the Chrysler Building. Look for the Woolworth Building.
Stroll down the most beautiful block in New York, the 100 block of E. 19th St. Note #132, former home to Hollywood's first sex symbol, [Theda Bara] and Shakespearean actor Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
Count yourself among the famous of the [Chelsea Hotel], 222 W. 23rd St., along with Tennessee Williams, Brendan Behan, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Andy Warhol, Sid Vicious and others.
Visit the [Little Church Around the Corner], One E. 29th St., where Sarah Bernhardt attended services when she was in New York. Note the stained glass window of Edwin Booth as Hamlet.
Linger in the lobby of the [Algonquin Hotel], and imagine the days of Alexander Woollcott, Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley as they tossed the witticisms that became New Yorker.
Visit [George M. Cohen's] statue in Duffy Square, whilst humming his famous "Give My Regards to Broadway."
Go on a DeNiro hunt in [TriBeCa].
Be cosmopolitian. Buy [New Yorker] and do something from "Goings On About Town."
Stroll through [Strawberry Fields] in Central Park, a memorial to the late John Lennon.
Pet a horse in front of the [Plaza], 768 5th Ave., the busiest thoroughfare for horse-drawn carriages in the world.
Rent a pair of rollerblades from [Blades] (72nd between Columbus and Broadway), take the free stopping clinic on Saturdays and skate the inner and outer loops of Central Park.
For a breath of fresh air without traveling to Central Park, check out [Bryant Park] at 42nd St & 5th Ave. Watch the locals play chess, enjoy the free wireless access or take a ride on the carousel.
Feeling bookish? Get lost in the New York Public Library. And don't forget to make your acquaintance with [Patience and Fortitude].
Catch a film at the very cool [Angelicka]. Make sure to check out the painted ceiling and grab some coffee in the cafe.
Explore [Grand Central Station] during one of the free public tours on Wednesday or Friday at 12:30 or discover it on your own. Soak up the Beaux Arts interior (the chandeliers are real gold!). Notice the famous old clock in the center of the main concourse. Look up at the constellation ceiling. Get lost in the sights and smells at Grand Central Market. Grab a bite to eat on the lower level - Two Boots, Junior's, and Little Pie Company (sour cream apple walnut pie!) deserve your attention. Take a friend to the whispering gallery at the end of the Oyster Bar ramps. Stand in one corner and have a friend stand in a diagonal one, facing the wall. Whisper your secrets to the wall and see what happens.
Take the Tram to [Roosevelt Island] (for the cost of subway fare it shuttles you from 59th Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan to Roosevelt Island. At the highest point in the journey, you will be suspended 250 feet above the East River.) Formerly known as both Blackwell's Island and Welfare Island, it was purchased by the city in 1828 as a location for charitable and corrective institutions. Over the years it has been home to the New York Lunatic Asylum (which Nellie Bly wrote about - leading to reforms in how patients were treated), the Smallpox Hospital, the Almshouse, a charity hospital and a penitentiary (where inmates included Emma Goldman and Mae West). Today there is a very active residential community on Roosevelt Island.
Where else but New York City can you play golf, ice hockey, basketball, soccer, or go rock climbing, ice skating, roller skating, or do gymnastics all in one location? That location is [Chelsea Piers] at 23rd Street and the Hudson River.
Get away from it all at the [Conservatory Garden] in Central Park (enter at 5th Ave and 105th); It's the only formal garden in the park.
Want to take it all in? Check out [Top of the Rock], the newly renovated Observation Deck on the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Skip the tour bus and step aboard one of MTA's own to take in Manhattan from top to bottom. The **M5** is a great west side tour that runs from the George Washington Bridge (178th Street) past [Riverside Park], down Broadway through [Columbus Circle], past [Central Park], down Fifth Avenue ([Plaza], [Waldorf-Astoria], [St. Patrick's Cathedral], Rockefeller Center). Midtown, the **M5** pases the [Flat Iron Building] before crossing through [Greenwich Village] to Houston. The ride from the [Upper West Side] (UWS) to Downtown takes about an hour. Take the **M10** on the UWS and glimpse [Central Park], [Times Square], [Madison Square Garden], [Chelsea], [Greenwich Village], [SoHo] and [TriBeCa] before it ends in [Battery Park City]. This tour is about 45-minutes. On the East, take the **M101** or **M102** begining at Lexington and Third Avenues to see [Little Italy], [Chinatown], [City Hall] and [Lower Manhattan]. Take the **M4** from the UWS to see [Columbia University], [Harlem] and, eventually, [The Cloisters] at the northernmost point of the island or the **M104** travelling downtown via [Broadway] past 42nd Street and the [Chrysler Building] before it drops you off in front of the [United Nations].
Take a break from the frenetic pace of the city with tea at [The Pierre], Two East 61st Street at Fifth Avenue. Nothing will ever feel as lovely, as calm, as civilized as tea at The Pierre.
