Tasty Northern Chinese cuisine in unpretentious setting. Could not stop slurping down the spicy tofu dish. Good dumplings, too. Could use more vegetarian options, but what’s here is good!
Food was delicious and fresh; servers, kind and delightful. Good vegetarian and non-veggie dishes, including Saag Paneer, Tandori Salmon, Mango Lassi, Garlic Naan.
Skateboarding happens here. So do protests and other social actions. Can be dodgy at times (junkies, runaways).
Wonderful family therapy resource is both a teaching school and a therapeutic facility. Highly experienced and sensitive therapists. Safe and supportive on LGBT issues. Educational events.
Roasted vegetable salad is remarkable. Homemade pasta is excellent. Order a half portion—the regular's too large. Not a lot of vegetarian options, but those that do exist are great.
Huevos rancheros are sublime: tangy, spicy. The guilt-inducing pleasure of fast food, yet made from healthful, fresh local ingredients. N.B. Weekend brunch menu differs from weekday breakfast menu.
Unpretentious, homey Lebanese joint serves fresh homemade hummus, falafel, tabouleh, etc. Try the Vegetarian Combo!
Where Midtown meets Lower Manhattan. Famous as the park where socialists in the 1930s used to lecture on soapboxes. (Literally.)
Best seen in the B&W cinematography of Scorsese’s Raging Bull—which makes it look more derelict, yet also more romantic, than it is.
A breath of air amid the hubbub of the busiest and most commercial part of the Village.
Amazing food, rich, fresh, and flavorful. Sweet service. Great brunch fills up early; reservations always needed.
Designed 1919, architect Guy Lowell. Monumental Neoclassical exterior (100-foot-wide steps, 10 fluted Corinthian columns) leads to painfully slow Security line. Save time by entering via back door.
For kids with ADHD, Autism, mood disorders, learning disorders, eating disorders, and other issues—and for their parents—this place is a lifesaver.
NoMad flows north and takes its character from Madison Square Park & the Flatiron Building. Once a neglected rug & wholesale neighborhood, it’s now home to design, tech, boutique hotels, & great food.
Despite the scary name, this is a good place to help with any type of food or dietary issue.
Trending neighborhood north of Flatiron and Madison Square Park, a mix of grimy roots, chic eateries, and fine architecture. Great office & studio spaces for design/tech. Convenient to everything.
Ugly, dingy, and crowded. They were out of most food selections and didn't refill. Loud schlocky music completes the experience.
Use the public restrooms instead of the lounge's. There are only two unisex toilets for everyone here. You will wait and wait when you can least afford to. There was no paper in my stall.
Not long ago, it was a wasteland of hookers, crack dealers, rug merchants, and failed businesses. Then the Roger Hotel came along, followed by the Ace. Now it is a trendy up-and-coming neighborhood.
"Veggie burger's the best choice," my server said. She wasn't wrong. With corn on the cob or fries. Smother in sautéed mushrooms and onions at the fixin's bar.
Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building is better known, but there is plenty to recommend this formal wedding cake, designed by Gilbert in 1926 and crowned in gold. It was his last New York skyscraper.
Florentine (spinach and poached egg on English muffin with Hollandaise) is perfection. Eat all the hash browns.
A strange, short ride that recapitulates the plot of Disney's "Snow White" animated film—but terminates abruptly, before Snow White is poisoned, and before the prince kisses her back to life. Odd.
