AKC Museum of the Dog
📍 Murray Hill
Art museum all about dogs: paintings, sculpture and interactive digital displays, plus a kids corner and library. Pet dogs are welcome on Fridays.
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Top things to do for visitors, each linked to its official source.
New York City Metro Area
📍 Murray Hill
Art museum all about dogs: paintings, sculpture and interactive digital displays, plus a kids corner and library. Pet dogs are welcome on Fridays.
Official site ↗📍 Financial District
Dine-in cinema at 28 Liberty with food served during the movie and a bar.
Official site ↗📍 SoHo
Classic downtown art-house cinema for independent and foreign films, with a café upstairs.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
An East Village archive and cinema for avant-garde, experimental and rare films in an old courthouse.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
Park Avenue museum of traditional and contemporary Asian art, with free docent-led tours, family days, films and talks. Museum admission is free every Friday.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A restaurant on Avenue A in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: michelin (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Hudson Heights
Small, quiet Hudson Heights park on land bought by newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett in 1871 and opened as a park in 1929, with a playground and public restrooms.
Official site ↗📍 Theater District
A Theater District jazz club named for Charlie Parker, with big bands, singers and dinner seating.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
The famous Village jazz club with two sets most nights and late-night shows.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A restaurant on West 40th Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: rooftop (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
AIA New York's storefront galleries with free architecture and design exhibitions, plus talks and events (some ticketed).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A museum on West 83rd Street in New York. What sets it apart: interactive exhibits and programs built for kids ages 0–6 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
One of the city's oldest continuously running cinemas, showing indie films and documentaries.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Escape rooms with themes from a museum heist to a space mission.
Official site ↗📍 Hamilton Heights
Multi-level 28-acre park built 69 feet above the Hudson, with a river promenade, playgrounds, a running track, courts and picnic areas. Pool, skating and the carousel charge small fees. No pets.
Official site ↗📍 Columbus Circle
Jazz at Lincoln Center's club with a view of Central Park behind the band.
Official site ↗📍 Inwood
Manhattan's last surviving Dutch colonial farmhouse, a late-1700s home on a hill in Inwood with period rooms, exhibitions and a garden that's free to wander.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Escape rooms near Times Square with several themes.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
Home of the New York Film Festival, with daily screenings of new art-house releases and repertory series.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A nonprofit cinema on Houston Street screening independent premieres and classic film series.
Official site ↗📍 Washington Heights
A 160-acre ribbon of cliffs, meadows and woods on the Hudson, with the Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge and views of the Palisades.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
New York University's fine-art museum, showing rotating exhibitions of modern and contemporary art at Cooper Square.
Official site ↗📍 East Harlem
Riverside greenway strip along the Harlem River in East Harlem, with a bike and walking path, natural areas, a playground and a soccer field.
Official site ↗📍 Washington Heights
Cliffside woods along the Harlem River, home to the High Bridge (the city's oldest standing bridge) and its water tower, plus the city's first mountain-bike course and a skate park.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A barbecue restaurant on West 26th Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: live music (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A Sixth Avenue art-house cinema with indie premieres, documentaries and cult midnight screenings.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
Photography museum and school with rotating exhibitions of documentary, art and news photography. Admission is reduced on Thursday evenings.
Official site ↗📍 Inwood
Hillside Inwood park on ground that played a part in the Revolutionary War battle of Fort Washington, with an outcrop of Inwood marble and a large ginkgo tree. Urban Park Rangers lead restoration work here with local stu
Official site ↗📍 Washington Heights
A dog run in J. Hood Wright Park at Fort Washington Avenue and 173rd Street.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A museum on Varick Street in New York. In its own words: “Learn about the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson through artifacts, historical imagery and multilayered storytelling.” (official site)
Official site ↗📍 Turtle Bay
Japanese art gallery near the UN, now showing Gen'ichirō Inokuma's NYC Salon (Oct 6, 2026–Jan 10, 2027). Free First Fridays 5–7 PM (Nov 6, Dec 4, Jan 8).
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Escape rooms in Midtown, from beginner puzzles to scarier live-actor games.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A Bleecker Street venue on the site of the old Village Gate, mixing concerts, classical music and comedy.
Official site ↗📍 Flatiron
A dog run inside Madison Square Park, between 23rd and 26th Streets.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
Improv theater and school with low-cost improv and sketch shows most nights.
Official site ↗📍 Harlem
A Harlem park with the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater for summer plays and concerts, playgrounds built for all kids, a pool and great old trees.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
A Lower East Side cinema showing 35mm repertory and new releases, with a bookshop and restaurant.
Official site ↗📍 Harlem
The Harlem room where bebop was born, with live jazz and dinner.
Official site ↗📍 Morningside Heights
A dog run in Morningside Park off Morningside Avenue.
Official site ↗📍 Washington Heights
Guided walking tour of uptown history starting from Manhattan's oldest house. The mansion itself is temporarily closed, but the tours and surrounding Roger Morris Park continue.
Official site ↗📍 Columbus Circle
A Columbus Circle museum of craft, art and design, with artist studios and a restaurant overlooking Central Park.
Official site ↗📍 Chinatown
Museum of Chinese American history and culture, with exhibitions and public programs. NYC residents can pay what they wish in person with residency ID.
Official site ↗📍 Battery Park City
Holocaust history museum with core exhibition The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do and Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones. Free admission Thursdays 4–8 PM with an advance reservation.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
Small storefront museum on the East Village's history of squats, community gardens and grassroots activism, in the historic C-Squat building.
Official site ↗📍 East Harlem
A Fifth Avenue museum about New York's past and present, with a film on the city's history and rotating exhibits.
Official site ↗📍 Central Park
A free summer classical series on the Naumburg Bandshell, the stone shell at the end of the Central Park Mall. It is one of the oldest outdoor concert series in the park.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
A Fifth Avenue mansion museum for German and Austrian art, home to Klimt's Woman in Gold and a Viennese café.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
Contemporary art museum on the Bowery showing new work by living artists from around the world, with exhibitions, talks and public programs.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
A small gallery and shop inside Grand Central Terminal with exhibits on the city's subways and buses.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
New York's oldest museum, on Central Park West, covering American and city history, with Tiffany lamps and Hudson River School art.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
Quiet townhouse museum devoted to the paintings of Nicholas Roerich, known for his vivid Himalayan landscapes.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
The city's last single-screen movie palace, by the Plaza, showing new releases and classic series.
Official site ↗📍 Turtle Bay
A dog run in Peter Detmold Park, just west of the FDR in Turtle Bay.
Official site ↗📍 Tribeca
Manhattan's only 18-hole mini golf course, on a Hudson River pier, with waterfalls, streams, a pond, bridges, sand traps and a cave. Walk-ins only; kids under 12 need an adult.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
The first museum in the United States dedicated to posters, with shows on design, advertising and propaganda.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
Four-screen Village art house showing new independent and international films plus curated retrospectives, with a bar.
Official site ↗📍 Randall's Island
An island park between Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, with sports fields, Icahn Stadium and public programs.
Official site ↗📍 Tribeca
Single-screen cinema in the basement of the Roxy Hotel, mostly 35mm classics and repertory, with a bar.
Official site ↗📍 Morningside Heights
Small, peaceful park between Riverside Church and International House, named for the Japanese cherry trees gifted to the city in 1912.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
Long, narrow green strip running from Houston Street down to Canal on the Lower East Side, the neighborhood's biggest open space, with playgrounds, a turf soccer field, a running track, ball courts and a roller-skating r
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
One of the largest parks on the Lower East Side, named for the New York statesman behind the 1867 Alaska purchase. It holds the first permanent city-built playground in the country, plus basketball and volleyball courts.
Official site ↗📍 Inwood
Five small street-end parks on the Harlem River from W 202nd to W 206th St, with waterfront seating, picnic tables, fishing access and a kayak launch.
Official site ↗📍 West Village
A small West Village basement jazz club with sets late into the night and a friendly, musician-heavy crowd.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
Intimate Upper West Side jazz supper club with nightly sets.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
Busy Upper East Side block park on First Avenue with a playground, running track, basketball and handball courts and a tennis wall. Its layout copies a church in Rome, down to elephant-shaped sprinklers.
Official site ↗📍 Hamilton Heights
A long, sloping park between Harlem and Hamilton Heights, running from W 128th to W 141st St, with playgrounds, courts and barbecue areas.
Official site ↗📍 Central Park
City Parks Foundation's outdoor stage at Rumsey Playfield, where the summer season brings concerts in the park, from free shows to ticketed headliners, under the Central Park trees.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
Guided tours of restored Lower East Side tenement apartments that tell the real stories of immigrant families who lived there.
Official site ↗📍 Tribeca
Cellar jazz bar under the Roxy Hotel with live music nightly.
Official site ↗📍 SoHo
A SoHo museum devoted to drawing, from old masters to contemporary artists.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
Museum Mile art museum of Jewish culture in a Fifth Avenue mansion. Admission is free on Saturdays and on Third Thursdays from 5–8 PM.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
Fashion Institute of Technology's fashion museum, with rotating exhibitions of clothing, textiles and accessories from its collection.
Official site ↗📍 Battery Park City
Small museum about tall buildings: exhibitions on skyscraper history, engineering and NYC's skyline. General admission is listed as free.
Official site ↗📍 Harlem
Harlem art museum with exhibitions, an artists-in-residence program, events and education programs in its new 125th Street building.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
East Village museum of Ukrainian art, folk art and culture, with rotating exhibitions, workshops and classrooms. Free entry on the last Thursday evening of each month.
Official site ↗📍 Flatiron
National Park Service site recreating the brownstone where Theodore Roosevelt was born, with a visitor center gallery and period rooms seen on ranger-led guided tours.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
A dog run in Theodore Roosevelt Park on Central Park West at 81st Street.
Official site ↗📍 East Harlem
A dog run in Thomas Jefferson Park at 112th Street and the FDR.
Official site ↗📍 Union Square
A dog run in Union Square Park at 15th Street and Union Square West.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
Movie theater inside a landmark 1926 Yiddish theater, with an ornate main auditorium.
Official site ↗📍 West Village
A basement jazz club open since 1935, where legends like Coltrane and Bill Evans recorded live albums. Two sets nightly.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Large virtual reality arcade with dozens of experiences.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
Historic East Village concert hall with shows most nights.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattanville
Landscaped Hudson River waterfront on the old Manhattanville shoreline, with fishing piers, a kayak and canoe launch and free Wi-Fi.
Official site ↗📍 Civic Center
A memorial and visitor center honoring the free and enslaved Africans buried here in the 1600s–1700s.
Official site ↗📍 Rockefeller Center
Doll store with a doll hair salon and a café.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
General admission is pay-what-you-wish for NY State residents with ID. Special exhibits cost extra.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
The glass cube on 59th St, open 24 hours. Free Today at Apple sessions.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
Immersive digital art halls of waves, flowers and light projected floor to ceiling.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea Market
Room-sized digital art in an old boiler room under Chelsea Market. Now showing: Twilight Zone, an ocean show.
Official site ↗📍 All five boroughs
A free volunteer "greeter" shows you a neighborhood like a local. Request online in advance.
Official site ↗📍 Flatiron
NYC's classic kids' bookstore, with original illustration art and Oz rarities.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
Manhattan escape rooms for groups.
Official site ↗📍 Battery Park City
A glass atrium with 16 palm trees overlooking the Hudson marina. Free to enter.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Midtown's lawn and reading room behind the library, with free programs most of the year.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Skate in Midtown at Bryant Park's seasonal rink, where admission is free and you can bring your own skates or rent a pair. The 2026–27 season runs Oct 28 to Feb 28.
Official site ↗📍 Flatiron
A "family experience" toy store with a secret door and themed play areas.
Official site ↗📍 Yorkville
Two fenced runs along the East River, from E 84th to 89th Streets near East End Avenue.
Official site ↗📍 The Battery
An 1811 fort in The Battery. Walk in free; it is also where Statue of Liberty ferry tickets are sold.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown to Harlem
843 acres of lawns, lakes, bridges and paths. Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge and the Ramble are free anytime.
Official site ↗📍 Central Park
Dogs may run off-leash in designated areas early morning and late night; leash them 9 AM–9 PM. Some spots, like the Ramble and Conservatory Garden, are always leash-only.
Official site ↗📍 Central Park
Sea lions, penguins and snow leopards in the middle of Central Park. Sea lion and penguin feedings run through the day. Kids 2 and under free.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
A food hall in the old Nabisco factory. Free to browse; food is extra.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
Lanes plus a bar and music; a classic date.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
Play-focused night out: games, golf or pinball.
Official site ↗📍 Hell's Kitchen
City views from up high (or on the water). Tickets are timed, so book a slot.
Official site ↗📍 East Harlem
Central Park's only formal garden: Italian, French and English gardens behind a gilded gate.
Official site ↗📍 Times Square
Disney's two-floor Times Square store.
Official site ↗📍 Hudson Yards
The highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, with a glass floor 100 stories up. Sunset slots sell out first.
Official site ↗📍 Hudson Yards
An outdoor sky deck 100 floors up with a glass floor and views across Manhattan.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
The 86th-floor open-air deck and museum floors. 102nd floor costs more.
Official site ↗📍 Flatiron
Eight themed rooms, from a spy mission to a submarine, with unlimited hints. Book the whole room if you want it to be just the two of you.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Private escape rooms near Rockefeller Center.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
A city-run market hall since 1940 with 30+ vendors: Dominican produce, cheese, dumplings and free community events.
Official site ↗📍 Garment District
Four private one-hour rooms, so your group never plays with strangers.
Official site ↗📍 Rockefeller Center
The classic toy store with the giant floor piano from "Big."
Official site ↗📍 Wall Street
Where George Washington took the oath of office. A National Park Service site with free entry.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A 3-hour walking tour with tastings at old-school Village shops, from pizza to cannoli, plus neighborhood history.
Official site ↗📍 Tudor City
A 12-story glass-walled indoor garden, with a free art gallery next to it.
Official site ↗📍 Hudson Heights
Heather Garden, cliffside views of the Hudson and free year-round programs from the park conservancy.
Official site ↗📍 Hudson Heights
A fenced run on Margaret Corbin Drive. Combine it with a leashed walk through the park.
Official site ↗📍 Roosevelt Island
A quiet granite memorial at the tip of Roosevelt Island with a head-on view of the UN.
Official site ↗📍 Morningside Heights
The largest mausoleum in North America, overlooking Riverside Park.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Free to walk in: the celestial ceiling, the Whispering Gallery and holiday displays. Guided tours cost extra.
Official site ↗📍 Turtle Bay
A 25-foot waterfall and shaded terraces between two buildings.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
The spiral by Frank Lloyd Wright. Pay any amount in the late-afternoon window.
Official site ↗📍 Hamilton Heights
Alexander Hamilton's only home, in St. Nicholas Park.
Official site ↗📍 Flatiron
Three floors of wands, robes and Butterbeer, plus paid VR experiences.
Official site ↗📍 West Side waterfront
Four miles of piers, bike paths and sunset views along the Hudson from Battery Park City to 59th St.
Official site ↗📍 Hell's Kitchen, Pier 86
An aircraft carrier with planes on deck, the space shuttle Enterprise and a submarine.
Official site ↗📍 Inwood
Manhattan's last natural forest and salt marsh, with hilly trails at the island's northern tip.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A free, volunteer-run flower garden behind the old courthouse library, open to visitors April through October.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Big LEGO NYC builds, a Pick & Build wall and a minifigure factory.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea Piers
40 lanes on the Hudson, plus an arcade and laser tag. Weeknight unlimited bowling is the best deal.
Official site ↗📍 Financial District
Immersive art-and-technology rooms of light, sound and mirrors near the WTC.
Official site ↗📍 Garment District
Private 60-minute rooms, so it's only your group. A cyberpunk room and a bank heist are the favorites.
Official site ↗📍 Tribeca / Chinatown
A tiny museum of odd everyday objects in a former elevator shaft. Free; donations welcome.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Free Friday nights for NY State residents. Reserve tickets ahead.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea / Flatiron
Hands-on math exhibits, including a square-wheeled tricycle. Under 2 free.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
Klimt's gold "Woman in Gold" portrait for free once a month. Expect a line.
Official site ↗📍 Rockefeller Center
Nintendo's flagship store, with game demos and a display of vintage consoles.
Official site ↗📍 Wall St / Pier 11 and other landings
The cheapest boat ride with a view after the free Staten Island Ferry. The East River route passes under three bridges between Wall St, Dumbo, Williamsburg and Long Island City.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
The lions, the Rose Main Reading Room (public visiting hour Mon–Sat 10–11 AM) and free docent tours.
Official site ↗📍 Financial District
The top of One World Trade Center, with a fast elevator ride and views of the whole harbor.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
A tiny pocket park with a 20-foot waterfall that drowns out traffic. The water is off in January.
Official site ↗📍 SoHo
An Asian-American emporium of lanterns, ceramics, slippers and snacks since 1971.
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea, Hudson River Park
A free 2-acre rooftop lawn over the Hudson. Enter by the south gate, then take the stairs or elevator.
Official site ↗📍 Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park
A free Public Art Fund sculpture at the southeast corner of Central Park.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
A long waterfront park from W 72nd to W 153rd St, good for walks and sunsets.
Official site ↗📍 59th St & 2nd Ave ↔ Roosevelt Island
A cable-car ride over the East River to Roosevelt Island; pay with OMNY or a MetroCard.
Official site ↗📍 Times Square
Full-body, free-roam VR for up to six people per room. You book a game for your group. Opened in October 2026.
Official site ↗📍 SoHo
A slime museum: hands-on slime bars, a slime-rain room and a DIY slime station.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
A well-known museum or garden worth a few hours.
Official site ↗📍 Whitehall Terminal
A free 25-minute harbor ride past the Statue of Liberty and the downtown skyline. Ride over and back.
Official site ↗📍 Battery Park
City views from up high (or on the water). Tickets are timed, so book a slot.
Official site ↗📍 Union Square
"18 miles of books," plus the bargain carts outside.
Official site ↗📍 Harlem
Free admission and family programs every Sunday at the new building on 125th St.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown East
Mirrored rooms and glass ledges above Grand Central.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Solve puzzles against the clock in a themed room.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
Old Masters (Vermeer, Rembrandt, Holbein) in a restored Gilded Age mansion. First Fridays turn it into a free evening out.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
Old Masters in a Gilded Age mansion, open late once a month.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
NY State residents pay any amount (min.
Official site ↗📍 Murray Hill
J.P. Morgan's library (three tiers of books) is free on Friday evenings.
Official site ↗📍 Financial District
Calatrava's white-ribbed station hall. Free to walk through and look up.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
A busy fenced dog run near E 9th St and Avenue B, one of the city's best known.
Official site ↗📍 Rockefeller Center
Open-air decks with the Empire State Building and Central Park both in view.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
Stand-up shows most nights. Expect a cover and usually a drink minimum.
Official site ↗📍 Grand Central
A food hall a block from Grand Central with pizza, tacos, sushi and a bar. Free Wi-Fi, free to sit.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A fenced run on the south side of the park, between MacDougal and Thompson Streets.
Official site ↗📍 Meatpacking
A well-known museum or garden worth a few hours.
Official site ↗📍 Meatpacking District
American art with terraces over the Hudson. Book free timed tickets ahead.
Official site ↗📍 SoHo
A small cocktail and wine bar with outdoor seating, on Sullivan Street in SoHo. Open seven days, until 1 AM on its latest nights. Drinks are 21+.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A bar on East Broadway in Manhattan. Open seven days, until 4 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: in business since 1916 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
An Israeli and Mediterranean restaurant on Cleveland Place in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: michelin (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 NoHo
A NoHo cocktail lounge serving craft cocktails and pizza on Bowery in NoHo. Open 6 days a week, until 4 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
Indian restaurant now on First Avenue, known for its reinvented butter chicken; book its pre-ordered, share-the-table Butter Chicken Experience for a memorable dinner date.
Official site ↗📍 New York
An Indian restaurant on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1950 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A restaurant on Greenwich Street in Manhattan. Open 5 days a week. What sets it apart: james beard (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Harlem
A Harlem soul food spot on 116th Street where dishes are named for notable Harlemites. Chicken and waffles is the order most people come for.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A diner on 7th Avenue in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1964 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A pizzeria on Broadway in Manhattan. Open seven days, until 3 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: in business since 1930 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
A French wine bar and kitchen with live music on Wednesdays on 1st Avenue in Upper East Side. Open seven days, until 1 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A diner on Broadway in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1980 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Midtown East
A Georgian restaurant serving hand-folded khinkali, Adjarian khachapuri and charcoal-grilled dishes, on East 44th Street in Midtown East. Open 6 days a week, until 11 PM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A Georgian restaurant on 6th Avenue in Greenwich Village. Open seven days, until 11 PM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Flatiron
Comedy club near Madison Square Park with stand-up and improv shows nightly.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
A bar on East 2nd Street in the East Village. Open 5 days a week, until 12 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 NoMad
A Korean tasting counter in NoMad, where each course comes with a card explaining its ingredients and story. Book well ahead.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
No-menu cocktail bar where bartenders make a drink to your taste.
Official site ↗📍 SoHo
SoHo French brasserie open from breakfast to late.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
An Argentinean restaurant serving steaks, seasonal vegetable plates and family-style dishes on Stanton Street in Lower East Side. Open seven days, until 11 PM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: brunch (per its off
Official site ↗📍 West Village
A Thai restaurant and cocktail bar inspired by Bangkok after dark on Hudson Street in West Village. Open seven days, until 11 PM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
Kenta Goto's Lower East Side bar, pairing Japanese-inspired cocktails with okonomiyaki and small bites.
Official site ↗📍 SoHo
Cocktail bar styled after 1920s Tokyo, pairing Japanese-style cocktails and jazz with yōshoku comfort food like omurice. 21+ at the bar.
Official site ↗📍 West Village
Classic Italian-style bar from Rita Sodi and Jody Williams at Grove St and Seventh Ave, going from espresso and bomboloni in the morning to cocktails and spuntini at night. No reservations.
Official site ↗📍 Financial District
Barcade's Financial District arcade bar: classic arcade cabinets and pinball with a craft-beer list.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
Barcade's East Village arcade bar on St. Mark's Place: classic arcade cabinets and pinball with a craft-beer list.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A bar on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. Open seven days, until 4 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: in business since 1987 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A French bistro on East 46th Street in Manhattan. Open 5 days a week. What sets it apart: speakeasy (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
Upper West Side smoked-fish counter and restaurant since 1908.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
A craft beer bar and bottle shop with a kitchen, on West 72nd Street on the Upper West Side. Open seven days, until 2 AM on its latest nights. Drinks are 21+.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
Iconic hotel cocktail bar inside The Carlyle, with murals by Ludwig Bemelmans, nightly piano and late-night jazz. A classic nightcap date.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A bar on East 10th Street in Manhattan. Open 3 days a week, until 4 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: speakeasy (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
An Italian restaurant on West 103rd Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1979 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Hell's Kitchen
A sports bar near Madison Square Garden and Penn Station with a happy hour; last call is 30 minutes before close, on 9th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen. Open seven days, until 4 AM on its latest nights. Drinks are 21+.
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
A tapas and wine bar on West 95th Street in the Upper West Side. Open seven days, until 12 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A French restaurant on West 70th Street in Manhattan, open since 1983. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1983 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A restaurant on 2nd Avenue in Manhattan. Open seven days, until 2 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: speakeasy (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 East Village
Moroccan café on St. Marks since 1983.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
Basement music club on MacDougal St, open since 1959, where the Cafe Wha? House Band plays late into the night. Bob Dylan played some of his first New York sets here in 1961. Reserve a table on the official site.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
Italian-American restaurant styled after mid-century New York.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
A Lower East Side underground venue for smart comedy, science talks and odd variety shows, with drinks and snacks.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
Old-school Village chess shop and club where you can rent a board and play pickup games. The shop itself invites couples to come on a date.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A Chinese restaurant on East 37th Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: michelin and rooftop (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Hamilton Heights
A Mexican restaurant, on West 136th Street in Hamilton Heights. Open seven days, until 1 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Koreatown
Koreatown karaoke with private rooms of every size, open late.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A restaurant on Clinton Street in Manhattan, open since 2001. Open seven days. What sets it apart: james beard (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A steakhouse on East 58th Street in Manhattan. Open every day but Monday. What sets it apart: live jazz and live music (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 East Village
A bar with a packed events calendar of DJ nights, drag shows and themed parties on East 6th Street in East Village. Open seven days, until 4 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
Upper East Side stand-up club open since 1975, with line-ups of comics from TV and podcasts most nights.
Official site ↗📍 Flatiron
Fried chicken and bubbles: a Flatiron dining room built around fried chicken and Champagne, open late for dinner. Book a table on the official site.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A restaurant on Allen Street in Manhattan. Open 5 days a week. What sets it apart: a tasting menu, michelin and james beard (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 West Village
West Village pub burger spot open late.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A Mexican restaurant on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: michelin (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 West Village
A bar and restaurant specializing in Southern Texan BBQ and margaritas on Hudson Street in the West Village. Open seven days, until 12 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A restaurant on Pine Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: michelin (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
An Italian restaurant on Mulberry Street in Manhattan, family-run since 1993. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1993 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Upper East Side
Comedy club founded by Rodney Dangerfield in 1969, with stand-up shows most nights.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
Century-old Village café turned cocktail bar known for negronis.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A bar on Central Park South in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: rooftop (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 East Village
Dark, candlelit East Village cocktail bar.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
An Italian restaurant on 2nd Avenue in Manhattan, open since 1983. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1983, live music, live jazz and a piano bar (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A steakhouse on Beaver Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1837 and burlesque (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
Cocktail bar with a front room and a hidden back room of drinks inspired by dishes.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A long-running underground dive bar on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village. Open seven days, until 4 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: brunch (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
A corner restaurant on the Lower East Side pairing all-day food with craft cocktails and natural wine on Orchard Street in Lower East Side. Open seven days, until 12 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
An Italian restaurant on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1985 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A bar on West 47th Street in Manhattan. Open every day but Monday. What sets it apart: burlesque (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A Mexican restaurant on Columbus Ave in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1992 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan Valley
A wine bar with Mediterranean-style small plates, mains and a global wine list on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan Valley. Open 6 days a week, until 11 PM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
A pizza restaurant, on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. Open seven days, until 1 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 West Village
Art-deco cocktail bar with a psychic at the door and late kitchen.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown East
Hand-rolled New York bagels since 1976.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
A walk-in-only cocktail bar reached through an art gallery entrance on Chrystie Street in Lower East Side. Open 6 days a week, until 4 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A Chinese and Peruvian restaurant on Broadway in Manhattan, open since 1977. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1977 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A pub on Broadway in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: karaoke (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
An American restaurant on Pearl Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: a piano bar, live music and michelin (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Chinatown / Two Bridges
Asian-American diner under the Manhattan Bridge serving classic New York diner dishes shaped by Chinatown flavors: an easy, fun breakfast, brunch or dinner date.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A Chinese restaurant on Platt Street in Manhattan. Open seven days, until 2 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: in business since 1989 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Flatiron
A Flatiron dining room with a walk-in front tavern and a more formal back room, cooking seasonal American food in a warm, rustic space.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
Historic West Village ceramics center offering classes and workshops.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
Stand-up club on MacDougal Street's "Comedy Row" with shows every night: early evening and late showcases of touring and TV comics, plus themed nights like New York Queer Comedy and the Comedy Lab. Arrive 20 minutes befo
Official site ↗📍 Hell's Kitchen
A Cuban restaurant on 8th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen. Open seven days, until 1 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: live music (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A Korean and American steakhouse on 8th Avenue in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: michelin, wood-fired cooking and a tasting menu (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Gramercy
An Indian restaurant with cocktails on East 18th Street in Gramercy. Open seven days, until 11 PM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: brunch (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Harlem
A tavern and sports bar with outdoor seating, a weekday happy hour and a Sunday jazz brunch, on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. Open seven days, until 1 AM on its latest nights. Drinks are 21+.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A sushi restaurant on East 48th Street in Manhattan. Open 5 days a week. What sets it apart: omakase (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A bar on Water Street in Manhattan. Open 5 days a week. What sets it apart: rooftop and speakeasy (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Alphabet City
A walk-in-only neighborhood bar on Avenue C in Alphabet City. Open 5 days a week, until 1 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Morningside Heights
A cozy café across from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where students linger for hours over strudel, coffee and books.
Official site ↗📍 New York
An Italian trattoria on Prince Street in Manhattan, with seafood on the menu. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1992 and wood-fired cooking (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
Chef Ivan Orkin's ramen shop, opened after his two Tokyo locations on Clinton Street in Lower East Side. Open seven days.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A Japanese restaurant on Ludlow Street in Manhattan. Open every day but Monday. What sets it apart: in business since 1823 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A bar on Bond Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: michelin (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Upper West Side
An American restaurant on Columbus Avenue in the Upper West Side. Open seven days, until 12 AM on its latest nights.
Official site ↗📍 Greenwich Village
Classic New York slice shop open since 1975.
Official site ↗📍 Chinatown
Chinatown spot known for soup dumplings.
Official site ↗📍 Manhattan
A pub on East 76th Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1996 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A pub on West 39th Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: live music (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 West Village
Japanese-American highball and cocktail bar.
Official site ↗📍 Lower East Side
Lower East Side deli since 1888, famous for hand-cut pastrami.
Official site ↗📍 Herald Square
A Herald Square chophouse open since 1885, famous for its mutton chop and ceilings lined with thousands of clay churchwarden pipes from past regulars.
Official site ↗📍 East Village
A red-walled, Soviet-themed bar upstairs in an East Village building, known for its free literary reading series.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A sushi restaurant on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan. Open every day but Tuesday. What sets it apart: omakase (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Chelsea
Chelsea pottery studio with wheel and hand-building classes, including one-night intros.
Official site ↗📍 Midtown (by MSG)
Independent comedy producer's own room next to Madison Square Garden, showcasing up-and-coming stand-ups, plus open mics and classes. LBC Fall Fest runs through Nov 5, 2026 with the audience judging.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A Thai restaurant on East 17th Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: michelin (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Midtown
Eric Ripert's Midtown seafood restaurant, a refined dining room where fish is the star of tasting and prix-fixe menus. A true special-occasion spot.
Official site ↗📍 Nolita
A coal-oven pizzeria on Spring Street that traces its license back to 1905. Whole pies only, with checkered tablecloths and a lot of New York pizza history.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. Open every day but Monday. What sets it apart: a tasting menu (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 East Village
A tiny East Village French bistro on First Avenue with candlelight, tightly packed tables and classics like duck confit late into the night.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A pub on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: in business since 1991 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Turtle Bay
An Irish pub and grill on 3rd Avenue in Turtle Bay. Open seven days, until 12 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: happy hour and brunch (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 West Village
Basement piano bar where the whole room sings show tunes together around the piano every night. No microphones, no reservations. 21+.
Official site ↗📍 New York
A Thai restaurant on East 1st Street in Manhattan. Open seven days. What sets it apart: michelin (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A pub on East 7th Street in Manhattan. Open seven days, until 1 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: in business since 1854 (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 New York
A bar on Ludlow Street in Manhattan. Open 3 days a week, until 4 AM on its latest nights. What sets it apart: in business since 1988 and live music (per its official site).
Official site ↗📍 Harlem
A restaurant serving Southern classics in a retro setting on West 114th Street in Harlem. Open seven days, until 11 PM on its latest nights.
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