Restaurateur Keith McNally's enduring Soho brasserie is the best every day restaurant in New York City. Period. Read more.
The House Special Roll: This is the “everything bagel” of sushi rolls. Smoked salmon, tuna, whitefish, hamachi, crabmeat, crab, flying-fish roe, avocado…this edible work of art has it all. Read more.
This is a great spot to spend the day with family and friends! Check out the rose garden and the Monet exhibit…they are absolutely beautiful!! FREE Wednesdays & Saturdays from 10am to 2pm :-)
SummerStage is one of the best places to enjoy yourself outdoors with great music and see famous celebs for free! Come early to see different performers from Beyonce to Maroon 5 :-)
On Fridays from 4pm to 8pm, there are a wide selection of art exhibits for you to see for free! Take a walk around the sculpture garden to absorb the art and beautiful architecture around you!
Take a free tour around Grand Central Station to have a better insight of the architecture and structure of this building!! Check out the constellation mural on the ceiling, it's amazing :-)
This is the kind of place you take your mom when she comes to visit, and also the kind of place where it’s not weird to order three helpings of lemon-ricotta pancakes. Read more.
Feel like a kid again as you’re dwarfed by the T-Rex and the Blue Whale or just surrounded magically by butterflies. It’s entertaining and educational. Use the side entrance to cut the line.
A mecca of fun things to do – outdoor films, ping pong and yoga in the summer, ice skating in the winter and great people watching all year round.
This is a very unique park that showcases historical buildings & artsy structures to the public! There is a trail of interesting and quirky things for you take pictures of! Great spot for a date :-)
If you're looking for great outdoor activities, this is a great park that features various fitness and dance activities, concerts and move flicks!
One of our favorite NY things to do is have cocktails after work on the roof of the Metropolitan, and take in the best views of Central Park. Open through late fall. Closed on Mondays.
Be sure to buy tickets online beforehand so you can avoid waiting on a massive line on a nice summer day. We love to come here to watch the sea lions be fed.
Get there early to take in the heavenly views of Manhattan while sipping on your favorite cocktail. Eventually, the masses will arrive and you’ll be fighting to keep your spot.
Current flagship exhibition Art of Another Kind features great European abstract expressionists, from Bourgeois to Vedova (1071 5th Ave, www.guggenheim.org).
Catch a pick-up baseball game south of Shepherd’s Field, or read the latest issue of the New Yorker under a tree on the Great Lawn.
Take in the city from 'Top of the Rock' (30 Rockefeller Plaza; topoftherocknyc.com; Open 8am-midnight) the 70th floor roof-deck of GE Building, centerpiece of Midtown’s Art Deco-era Rockefeller Center
A timeless French-American bistro with tiled floors, red leather booths, and a marble counter. The raw bar and steak frites are superb, as is the French wine list. (001 212 965-1785; about ₤60 a head)
Start the day with strong coffee and sour cream buttermilk pancakes with bananas at Bubby's (120 Hudson St; 001 212 219 0666; www.bubbys.com, ₤15) the restaurant that helped put TriBeCa on the map.
The duck is like a tender filet mignon and the scallops are perfectly seared. It was all fabulous!
