New York
United States • North America
28
curated places
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two million years of human creativity.
MoMA
Modern art's definitive home.
Eleven Madison Park
Refined, theatrical, high-touch hospitality.
Russ and Daughters
The definitive New York appetizing store since 1914. Four generations of smoked fish perfection.
The Carlyle
Old-money NYC, discretion as art form.
The Greenwich Hotel
Robert De Niro's answer to impersonal luxury. Every room is different, the pool is a Japanese-style oasis, and Locanda Verde downstairs is its own draw.
The Met Breuer
The encyclopedic museum to end all museums. Two million years of human creativity under one roof.
Via Carota
Effortless Italian that feels like a secret everyone knows. The kind of place where the menu changes with the seasons and the pasta is always perfect.
Lilia
Industrial-chic pasta temple in a converted auto body shop. Missy Robbins' handmade pasta draws crowds who don't mind the trek to Williamsburg.
PDT (Please Dont Tell)
The speakeasy that launched a thousand imitators. Enter through a phone booth inside Crif Dogs.
The Met Cloisters
Medieval European art in reassembled monastery architecture overlooking the Hudson. The Unicorn Tapestries alone justify the trip.
Carbone
Theatrical Italian-American where the veal parm is religion and the waiters wear red jackets. Loud, proud, and unapologetically old-school.
The Bowery Hotel
Where the downtown creative class goes to be seen not trying to be seen. The lobby is a living room where models and musicians drink coffee past noon.
The Frick Collection
Old masters in a Fifth Avenue mansion. Vermeer, Bellini, Holbein in rooms scaled for private enjoyment. The garden court is a sanctuary.
The Standard High Line
Andre Balazs's glass tower straddling the High Line. The hotel that defined Meatpacking cool.
KITH
Ronnie Fieg's streetwear empire flagship. Where sneaker culture meets fashion, with a Treats cereal bar for good measure.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Renzo Piano's Whitney building at the foot of the High Line. American art with outdoor terraces and views that compete with the collection.
$$$$Le Bernardin
Quiet, precise, legacy luxury.
$$$Balthazar
The Paris brasserie that New York deserved. Keith McNally's masterpiece has been packing them in since 1997, and the steak frites haven't aged a day.
$$Neue Galerie
German and Austrian art in a Beaux-Arts mansion. Home to Klimt's golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Intimate and exquisite.
$$$The NoMad Hotel
Parisian bones in a Manhattan address. The library is moody, the roast chicken is famous, and the whole thing feels like a more elegant era.
$$Russ & Daughters Cafe
Fourth-generation appetizing store turned sit-down restaurant. This is New York on a plate.
$$Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn's encyclopedic museum with strengths in Egyptian, American, and contemporary. First Saturdays are legendary free parties.
$$$The Standard High Line
Straddling the High Line with floor-to-ceiling windows and no curtains for the exhibitionist set. Le Bain on the roof, Standard Grill below.
$$Ace Hotel New York
The hotel that made lobbies co-working spaces before WeWork existed. Breslin restaurant, Stumptown coffee, and more MacBooks than a tech conference.
$$Eataly
Oscar Farinetti's Italian marketplace. A temple to Italian food with restaurants, counters, and retail under one roof.
$$MoMA PS1
MoMA's Queens outpost in a former public school. Experimental, challenging, and home to the legendary Warm Up summer series.
$$$Supreme
The skate brand that became a billion-dollar cultural phenomenon. Now LVMH-owned, but the Thursday drops still cause lines.