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New York

118 verified places across 16 areas. Coverage is deliberately partial: this is an early corpus, not a complete guide to the city.

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118 of 118 places

  • Restaurants· opening details checked

    Barney Greengrass

    Upper West Side

    Barney Greengrass is an appetizing store and dining room on Amsterdam Avenue on Manhattan's…

  • Nightlife· opening details checked

    Bemelmans Bar

    Upper East Side

    Bemelmans Bar is a bar in the Carlyle hotel on East 76th Street in Manhattan, its walls pain…

  • Markets· opening details checked

    Chelsea Market

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    Chelsea Market occupies the former National Biscuit Company factory complex on Ninth Avenue…

  • Shopping· opening details checked

    Kalustyan's

    Midtown Manhattan

    Kalustyan's is a spice and speciality-food shop on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan's Murray Hi…

  • Restaurants· opening details checked

    Keens Steakhouse

    Midtown Manhattan

    Keens Steakhouse is a chophouse on West 36th Street in Midtown Manhattan, trading since 1885…

  • Cafés· opening details checked

    Lexington Candy Shop

    Upper East Side

    The Lexington Candy Shop is a luncheonette on Lexington Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Sid…

  • Nightlife· opening details checked

    McSorley's Old Ale House

    East Village and the Lower East Side

    McSorley's Old Ale House is a bar on East 7th Street in Manhattan's East Village, trading si…

  • Museums & galleries· opening details checked

    Museum of the City of New York

    Upper East Side

    The Museum of the City of New York on upper Fifth Avenue documents the city's history and it…

  • Museums & galleries· opening details checked

    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    Upper East Side

    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is an art museum on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's Upper East…

  • Museums & galleries· opening details checked

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Upper East Side

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an encyclopedic art museum on Fifth Avenue at the eastern…

  • Museums & galleries· opening details checked

    The Skyscraper Museum

    Lower Manhattan

    The Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City is devoted to the study of high-rise buildings, p…

  • Museums & galleries· opening details checked

    Whitney Museum of American Art

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    The Whitney Museum of American Art stands at the southern end of the High Line in Manhattan'…

  • Wellness & fitness

    AIRE Ancient Baths

    Lower Manhattan

    AIRE Ancient Baths occupies a nineteenth-century textile warehouse on Franklin Street in Tri…

  • Parks & gardens

    Alley Pond Park

    Queens

    Alley Pond Park is a 636-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New York…

  • Museums & galleries

    American Folk Art Museum

    Manhattan

    American Folk Art Museum is a cultural organisation in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, New Y…

  • Museums & galleries

    American Museum of Natural History

    Manhattan

    American Museum of Natural History is an individually designated New York City landmark in U…

  • Waterfront

    American Veterans Memorial Pier

    Brooklyn

    American Veterans Memorial Pier is a 3-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and mainta…

  • Shopping

    Argosy Book Store

    Midtown Manhattan

    The Argosy Book Store is an antiquarian bookshop on East 59th Street in Manhattan, founded i…

  • Cafés

    Balthazar Bakery

    SoHo and Nolita

    Balthazar Bakery is a bakery counter on Spring Street in SoHo, attached to the brasserie of…

  • Architecture & design

    Barbey Building

    Midtown-Times Square

    Barbey Building is an individually designated New York City landmark in Midtown-Times Square…

  • Waterfront

    Bay Breeze Park

    Queens

    Bay Breeze Park is a 5-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintained by the New…

  • Waterfront

    Beach Channel Park

    Queens

    Beach Channel Park is a 13-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintained by the…

  • Shopping

    Bergdorf Goodman

    Midtown Manhattan

    Bergdorf Goodman is a department store on Fifth Avenue at 58th Street in Manhattan, trading…

  • Nightlife

    Birdland

    Midtown Manhattan

    Birdland is a jazz club on West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, carrying a name first used…

  • Nightlife

    Blue Note

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    The Blue Note is a jazz club on West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village, opened in 1981 and run…

  • Performing arts

    Bronx Opera House

    Bronx

    Bronx Opera House is an individually designated New York City landmark in Mott Haven-Port Mo…

  • Parks & gardens

    Bronx Park

    Bronx

    Bronx Park is a 718-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New York City…

  • Architecture & design

    Brooklyn Edison Building

    Brooklyn

    Brooklyn Edison Building is an individually designated New York City landmark in Downtown Br…

  • Civic & heritage

    Brooklyn Public Library, Stone Avenue Branch

    Brooklyn

    Brooklyn Public Library, Stone Avenue Branch is an individually designated New York City lan…

  • Parks & gardens

    Bryant Park

    Midtown Manhattan

    Bryant Park is a public park in Midtown Manhattan behind the New York Public Library's main…

  • Cafés

    Caffe Reggio

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    Caffe Reggio is a coffee house on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, opened in 1927 and…

  • Performing arts

    Carnegie Hall

    Midtown Manhattan

    Carnegie Hall on Seventh Avenue is a concert hall opened in 1891, containing three auditoria…

  • Religious sites

    Cathedral Church of St John the Divine and the Cathedral Close

    Morningside Heights

    Cathedral Church of St John the Divine and the Cathedral Close is an individually designated…

  • Parks & gardens

    Central Park

    Manhattan

    Central Park is an 840-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New York C…

  • Architecture & design

    Chrysler Building

    Midtown Manhattan

    The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper of 1930 on Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manha…

  • Religious sites

    Church of Saint Mary

    Manhattan

    Church of Saint Mary is an individually designated New York City landmark in Lower East Side…

  • Performing arts

    Claremont Theater Building

    Manhattan

    Claremont Theater Building is an individually designated New York City landmark in Manhattan…

  • Waterfront

    Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk

    Brooklyn

    Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk is a 399-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maint…

  • Museums & galleries

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Upper East Side

    Cooper Hewitt is the Smithsonian's design museum, occupying Andrew Carnegie's 1902 mansion o…

  • Waterfront

    Crescent Beach Park

    Staten Island

    Crescent Beach Park is an 112-acre nature area in New York, held and maintained by the New Y…

  • Parks & gardens

    Crotona Park

    Bronx

    Crotona Park is a 128-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New York Ci…

  • Parks & gardens

    Cunningham Park

    Queens

    Cunningham Park is a 358-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New York…

  • Transport gateways

    E. Hayward and Amelia Parsons Ferry House

    Midtown-Times Square

    E. Hayward and Amelia Parsons Ferry House is an individually designated New York City landma…

  • Nightlife

    Ear Inn

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    The Ear Inn occupies the James Brown House on Spring Street in Manhattan, a Federal-style bu…

  • Waterfront

    East River Walk

    Manhattan

    East River Walk is a 5-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintained by the New…

  • Shopping

    Economy Candy

    East Village and the Lower East Side

    Economy Candy is a confectionery shop on Rivington Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, tr…

  • Museums & galleries

    El Museo del Barrio

    Upper East Side

    El Museo del Barrio on Fifth Avenue is New York's museum of Latin American and Caribbean art…

  • Architecture & design

    Fashion Tower

    Midtown-Times Square

    Fashion Tower is an individually designated New York City landmark in Midtown-Times Square,…

  • Civic & heritage

    Federal Hall National Memorial

    Lower Manhattan

    Federal Hall National Memorial is a Greek Revival building of 1842 at 26 Wall Street in Lowe…

  • Cafés

    Ferrara Bakery

    SoHo and Nolita

    Ferrara is a pastry shop and cafe on Grand Street in Manhattan's Little Italy, trading since…

  • Parks & gardens

    Ferry Point Park

    Bronx

    Ferry Point Park is a 398-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New Yor…

  • Religious sites

    First Hungarian Reformed Church

    Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

    First Hungarian Reformed Church is an individually designated New York City landmark in Uppe…

  • Parks & gardens

    Flushing Meadows Corona Park

    Queens

    Flushing Meadows Corona Park is an 871-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained b…

  • Waterfront

    Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach

    Staten Island

    Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach is a 644-acre waterfront facility in New York, hel…

  • Architecture & design

    Furcraft Building

    Manhattan

    Furcraft Building is an individually designated New York City landmark in Midtown South-Flat…

  • Museums & galleries

    Garibaldi-Meucci Museum

    Staten Island

    Garibaldi-Meucci Museum is an individually designated New York City landmark in Rosebank-Sho…

  • Transport gateways

    Grand Central Terminal

    Midtown Manhattan

    Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal on East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan,…

  • Performing arts

    Hamilton Theater

    Manhattan

    Hamilton Theater is an individually designated New York City landmark in Hamilton Heights-Su…

  • Architecture & design

    Hearst Tower

    Midtown Manhattan

    Hearst Tower on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan is a glass tower of 2006 by Norman Foster rising…

  • Architecture & design

    Heckscher Building (now the Crown Building)

    Midtown-Times Square

    Heckscher Building (now the Crown Building) is an individually designated New York City land…

  • Parks & gardens

    Highland Park

    Brooklyn

    Highland Park is a 45-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New York Ci…

  • Museums & galleries

    Historical Museum, Historic Richmond Town

    Staten Island

    Historical Museum, Historic Richmond Town is an individually designated New York City landma…

  • Religious sites

    Holyrood Episcopal Church-Iglesia Santa Cruz

    Manhattan

    Holyrood Episcopal Church-Iglesia Santa Cruz is an individually designated New York City lan…

  • Waterfront

    Hudson River Park

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    Hudson River Park is a linear waterfront park running along the west side of Manhattan from…

  • Restaurants

    John's of Bleecker Street

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    John's of Bleecker Street is a coal-oven pizzeria in Greenwich Village, opened in 1929 and s…

  • Restaurants

    Katz's Delicatessen

    East Village and the Lower East Side

    Katz's Delicatessen is a Jewish delicatessen on East Houston Street on Manhattan's Lower Eas…

  • Parks & gardens

    LaTourette Park & Golf Course

    Staten Island

    LaTourette Park & Golf Course is a 761-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained b…

  • Waterfront

    Lemon Creek Park

    Staten Island

    Lemon Creek Park is a 105-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintained by the N…

  • Architecture & design

    Lithuanian Alliance Building

    Manhattan

    Lithuanian Alliance Building is an individually designated New York City landmark in Chelsea…

  • Civic & heritage

    Low Memorial Library

    Morningside Heights

    Low Memorial Library is an individually designated New York City landmark in Morningside Hei…

  • Museums & galleries

    Mount Vernon Hotel Museum

    Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

    Mount Vernon Hotel Museum is an individually designated New York City landmark in Upper East…

  • Museums & galleries

    Museum of Jewish Heritage

    Lower Manhattan

    The Museum of Jewish Heritage stands in Battery Park City at the southern tip of Manhattan a…

  • Museums & galleries

    Museum of Modern Art

    Midtown Manhattan

    The Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd Street holds one of the principal collections of moder…

  • Museums & galleries

    Neue Galerie New York

    Upper East Side

    Neue Galerie New York on Fifth Avenue holds German and Austrian art and design of the early…

  • Markets

    New York Curb Exchange

    Financial District-Battery Park City

    New York Curb Exchange is an individually designated New York City landmark in Financial Dis…

  • Civic & heritage

    New York Public Library, Harlem Branch

    Manhattan

    New York Public Library, Harlem Branch is an individually designated New York City landmark…

  • Civic & heritage

    New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    Midtown Manhattan

    The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is the New York Public Library's main research building o…

  • Civic & heritage

    New York Public Library, Tremont Branch

    Bronx

    New York Public Library, Tremont Branch is an individually designated New York City landmark…

  • Waterfront

    North 5th Street Pier and Park

    Brooklyn

    North 5th Street Pier and Park is a 3-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintai…

  • Religious sites

    Old Saint James Episcopal Church (Old Saint James Parish Hall)

    Queens

    Old Saint James Episcopal Church (Old Saint James Parish Hall) is an individually designated…

  • Parks & gardens

    Pelham Bay Park

    Bronx

    Pelham Bay Park is a 2772-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New Yor…

  • Waterfront

    Pier 17 and the Seaport

    Lower Manhattan

    Pier 17 is a rebuilt pier structure on the East River at the South Street Seaport in Lower M…

  • Civic & heritage

    Pratt Institute Library

    Brooklyn

    Pratt Institute Library is an individually designated New York City landmark in Clinton Hill…

  • Religious sites

    Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing (Bowne Street Community Church)

    Queens

    Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing (Bowne Street Community Church) is an individua…

  • Parks & gardens

    Randall's Island Park

    Manhattan

    Randall's Island Park is a 254-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the Ne…

  • Performing arts

    Ridgewood Theater Building

    Queens

    Ridgewood Theater Building is an individually designated New York City landmark in Ridgewood…

  • Waterfront

    Rockaway Beach

    Queens

    Rockaway Beach is a 167-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintained by the New…

  • Waterfront

    Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk

    Queens

    Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk is a 498-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintai…

  • Waterfront

    Rockaway Beach Boardwalk

    Queens

    Rockaway Beach Boardwalk is a 376-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintained…

  • Architecture & design

    Rockefeller Center

    Midtown Manhattan

    Rockefeller Center is a complex of commercial buildings between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in M…

  • Shopping

    Russ & Daughters

    East Village and the Lower East Side

    Russ & Daughters is an appetizing store on East Houston Street on Manhattan's Lower East Sid…

  • Wellness & fitness

    Russian and Turkish Baths

    East Village and the Lower East Side

    The Russian and Turkish Baths on East 10th Street in Manhattan's East Village have operated…

  • Architecture & design

    Seagram Building

    Midtown Manhattan

    The Seagram Building is a bronze and glass office tower of 1958 on Park Avenue in Midtown Ma…

  • Performing arts

    Shubert Theater

    Midtown-Times Square

    Shubert Theater is an individually designated New York City landmark in Midtown-Times Square…

  • Parks & gardens

    Soundview Park

    Bronx

    Soundview Park is a 269-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New York…

  • Waterfront

    South Beach Wetlands

    Staten Island

    South Beach Wetlands is a 5-acre nature area in New York, held and maintained by the New Yor…

  • Religious sites

    St. Paul's Chapel

    Lower Manhattan

    St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway is the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan, complete…

  • Waterfront

    Stapleton Esplanade

    Staten Island

    Stapleton Esplanade is a 5-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintained by the…

  • Museums & galleries

    Tenement Museum

    Lower Manhattan

    The Tenement Museum on Orchard Street presents the histories of migrant families who lived i…

  • Parks & gardens

    The Battery

    Lower Manhattan

    The Battery is a public park at the southern tip of Manhattan, on land largely created by la…

  • Museums & galleries

    The Frick Collection

    Upper East Side

    The Frick Collection occupies Henry Clay Frick's 1914 mansion on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan a…

  • Parks & gardens

    The High Line

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    The High Line is a linear public park on a disused elevated freight viaduct on Manhattan's W…

  • Museums & galleries

    The Morgan Library & Museum

    Midtown Manhattan

    The Morgan Library & Museum on Madison Avenue holds J. Pierpont Morgan's collection of manus…

  • Waterfront

    Tiffany Street Pier

    Bronx

    Tiffany Street Pier is a 4-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintained by the…

  • Religious sites

    Trinity Church

    Lower Manhattan

    Trinity Church stands at the head of Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. The present Gothic Revi…

  • Markets

    Union Square Greenmarket

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    The Union Square Greenmarket is an open-air farmers' market on the north and west sides of U…

  • Performing arts

    United Palace (Formerly Loew's 175th Street Theatre)

    Manhattan

    United Palace (Formerly Loew's 175th Street Theatre) is an individually designated New York…

  • Parks & gardens

    Van Cortlandt Park

    Bronx

    Van Cortlandt Park is an 1146-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New…

  • Civic & heritage

    Van Schaick Free Reading Room/Huntington Free Library and Reading Room

    Bronx

    Van Schaick Free Reading Room/Huntington Free Library and Reading Room is an individually de…

  • Restaurants

    Veselka

    East Village and the Lower East Side

    Veselka is a Ukrainian diner on Second Avenue in Manhattan's East Village, opened in 1954 an…

  • Nightlife

    Village Vanguard

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    The Village Vanguard is a basement jazz club on Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, o…

  • Museums & galleries

    Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden

    Queens

    Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden is an individually designated New Y…

  • Parks & gardens

    Washington Square Park

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    Washington Square Park is a public park in Greenwich Village, laid out on a former potter's…

  • Waterfront

    West Harlem Piers

    Manhattan

    West Harlem Piers is a 5-acre waterfront facility in New York, held and maintained by the Ne…

  • Nightlife

    White Horse Tavern

    Greenwich Village and the West Side

    The White Horse Tavern is a bar on Hudson Street in Greenwich Village, trading since 1880 an…

  • Transport gateways

    Whitehall Ferry Terminal

    Financial District-Battery Park City

    Whitehall Ferry Terminal is an individually designated New York City landmark in Financial D…

  • Architecture & design

    Woolworth Building

    Lower Manhattan

    The Woolworth Building is a Gothic Revival skyscraper of 1913 on Broadway in Lower Manhattan…

  • Shopping

    Zabar's

    Upper West Side

    Zabar's is a food market on Broadway at 80th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, founded…

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neighborhood

Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan is the southern end of Manhattan island, containing the Financial District and the city's oldest street pattern. It is the point from which New York's colonial settlement expanded northward.

10 verified places

neighborhood

Upper East Side

The Upper East Side is a residential neighborhood on the east side of Central Park in Manhattan. Its Fifth Avenue frontage carries a sequence of major art museums often referred to collectively as Museum Mile.

9 verified places

neighborhood

Midtown Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan is the central business district of Manhattan, holding the largest concentration of office space in the United States along with the city's main rail terminals and several major museums.

15 verified places

neighborhood

Greenwich Village and the West Side

Greenwich Village and the neighbouring lower west side of Manhattan retain an irregular street pattern that predates the 1811 grid, and now carry the southern end of the High Line and the galleries and museums that followed it.

12 verified places

neighborhood

East Village and the Lower East Side

The East Village and Lower East Side occupy the ground east of the Bowery in Manhattan, settled successively by German, Jewish, Ukrainian, Puerto Rican and Chinese communities, several of which still have institutions on the same blocks.

6 verified places

neighborhood

SoHo and Nolita

SoHo holds the largest concentration of cast-iron architecture in the world, built as a wholesale and light-manufacturing district in the mid-nineteenth century, and Nolita and Little Italy adjoin it to the east.

2 verified places

neighborhood

Upper West Side

The Upper West Side runs between Central Park and the Hudson on Manhattan's west side, developed largely after the Ninth Avenue elevated railway arrived in the 1870s and now largely residential.

2 verified places

borough

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York, an official administrative unit. It is recorded here because 7 verified places in this corpus fall within it.

7 verified places

borough

Bronx

Bronx is a borough of New York, an official administrative unit. It is recorded here because 10 verified places in this corpus fall within it.

10 verified places

borough

Queens

Queens is a borough of New York, an official administrative unit. It is recorded here because 14 verified places in this corpus fall within it.

12 verified places

borough

Staten Island

Staten Island is a borough of New York, an official administrative unit. It is recorded here because 8 verified places in this corpus fall within it.

8 verified places

borough

Manhattan

Manhattan is a borough of New York, an official administrative unit. It is recorded here because 14 verified places in this corpus fall within it.

14 verified places

neighborhood

Midtown-Times Square

Midtown-Times Square is a neighbourhood of New York, a statistical geography built from census tracts rather than a neighbourhood New Yorkers name. It is recorded here because 5 verified places in this corpus fall within it.

5 verified places

neighborhood

Financial District-Battery Park City

Financial District-Battery Park City is a neighbourhood of New York, a statistical geography built from census tracts rather than a neighbourhood New Yorkers name. It is recorded here because 2 verified places in this corpus fall within it.

2 verified places

neighborhood

Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island is a neighbourhood of New York, a statistical geography built from census tracts rather than a neighbourhood New Yorkers name. It is recorded here because 2 verified places in this corpus fall within it.

2 verified places

neighborhood

Morningside Heights

Morningside Heights is a neighbourhood of New York, a statistical geography built from census tracts rather than a neighbourhood New Yorkers name. It is recorded here because 2 verified places in this corpus fall within it.

2 verified places

Collections

Curated · Outdoor day

Lower Manhattan On Foot

Four stops at the southern end of Manhattan that between them show how much of the island's edge is manufactured and how early its street pattern was set.

4 places

Curated · Solo afternoon

Museum Mile in an Afternoon

Fifth Avenue north of 70th Street carries a run of museums in what were private houses, plus two purpose-built ones. Ordered south to north.

5 places

Curated · Rainy day

Midtown Indoors

Four Midtown buildings that are free or cheap to enter and are worth entering for the rooms themselves, not only for what is in them.

4 places

Curated · Coffee & walk

The West Side Walk

The High Line runs north from the Meatpacking District past the buildings that followed it. This is the southern end, walked as one route.

3 places

Curated · Solo afternoon

The Lower East Side On Foot

Four businesses within a few blocks that between them still serve the food of the district's successive migrations. Ordered north to south.

4 places

Curated · Rainy day

New York Rooms That Stayed

Interiors that survived the city's habit of replacing itself: a luncheonette, a coffee house, a chophouse and a hotel bar.

4 places

Curated · Date night

Downtown Jazz

Three rooms where the music is the point and the room shapes it. Ordered by how small they are, which is also roughly how they sound.

3 places

Curated · Architecture & design

Manhattan Towers You Can Enter

Four buildings famous from the street whose interiors or plazas are actually accessible, which is rarer than it sounds.

4 places

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