Not a great restaurant, but an institution. Affordable and fast, it’s where Indian taxi drivers in Manhattan often go to eat. A New York experience, and a long-time Curry Hill anchor business.
Adequate American breakfast to go, priced for working people and Baruch/SVA students. Friendly bilingual (Spanish/English) staff. Seating. Nondescript storefront setting is always clean.
Performing arts neighborhood centered around Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Juliard School, LaGuardia HS of the Arts, and the Performing Arts Library.
Excellent, authentic Mexican cuisine. They make the guacamole at your table. There are several vegetarian options. Also several gluten-free dishes.
Legendary institution. It was here before Tribeca was Tribeca. It will still be here after the apocalypse.
Neighborhood classic makes great breakfast omelettes. They start serving at 8:00 am but don’t get customers until after 9:00. Arrive early and bask in the quiet.
Designed by Russell G. Cory, Walter M. Cory & Yasuo Matsui in 1931, Starrett-Lehigh was originally a warehouse & manufacturing center, with railroad tracks streaming right into the bottom floor.
Good breakfast buffet with great views of Chicago River and architecture. Buffet recently upgraded: more choices, more taste. Same staff year after year. Always nice.
Solid summer art programs for middle school kids; specializes in helping high school artists prepare kick-ass college portfolios. Affiliated with School of Visual Arts NYC & other great art colleges.
Built in 1902 by architect Ralph S. Townsend and bought in 1907 by George S. Bowdoin, a philanthropist and business partner of J.P. Morgan, it is currently for sale for $6,400,000.
Half the pool is outdoors, the other half is indoors. You can swim back and forth between them. Heaven!
Wonderful South Indian veggie food in the heart of Curry Hill.
Possibly the most famous greenmarket in NYC. Great local produce and people-watching.
Depressing little grassless "park," best known as launch site of Occupy Wall Street, becomes bearable in December owing to sparking holiday lights.
Bit of Queens in Tribeca. Eggs rancheros pack a real punch! Hash browns are cooked through, English muffin toasted and buttered to perfection. Squeaky-clean, friendly, solid NY diner.
Closed Saturdays, open Sundays. Well run, family owned, small neighborhood pharmacy. They know your name, and even deliver, free. Besides the location here, there's also one storefront in Queens.
Walked a fair piece to come here but the place was too crowded. Standing room out the door on a cold day? No thanks.
Green chili omelette not bad. You could do worse when seeking breakfast before a flight.
One Way Ticket, on the African American great migration, is a stunning and deeply moving show.
Murray Hill may be the unhip Williamsburg—it’s where a certain class of 20yo lands when 1st moving to NY—but it’s also a beautifully livable neighborhood in walking distance of everything great in NY.
The area west of SoHo, once known for affordable office space during the pre-9/11 dot-com boom, has recently been named Hudson Square in a city effort to create yet another digital gulch.
Amazing, tranquil, deep, multi-floor Japanese bookstore across from Bryant Park is a must-see for visitors and residents alike.
An anchor school of the Chelsea neighborhood. World famous design program and architecture that would make Stalin weep for joy.
East Harlem, baby. Watch the elevated subway rush by. Stand in a doorway and smoke.
Fastest and best Genius bar in the city, and what a view! The melding of Apple's aesthetic and Grand Central's shouldn't work at all—but it does.
Sunday Brunch for the Meatpacking crowd. A nice way to start a weekend walk up the adjacent High Line park.
