Guidebook for New York

Beth
Guidebook for New York

Food Scene

$ Cheap, good Mexican. They deliver or u can get take out. They also have a sit-down restaurant next to the take-out place. I get burritos and quesidillas from here almost every week.
Paquitos
143 1st Ave.
$ Cheap, good Mexican. They deliver or u can get take out. They also have a sit-down restaurant next to the take-out place. I get burritos and quesidillas from here almost every week.
$ Great, inexpensive diner food w/ Ukranian twist. Get the borscht. They deliver too.
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Veselka
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$ Great, inexpensive diner food w/ Ukranian twist. Get the borscht. They deliver too.
Great little coffee shop.
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MUD SPOT
307 E 9th St
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Great little coffee shop.
$ Great bagels and coffee. Has vegan spreads.
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Tompkins Square Bagels
165 Avenue A
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$ Great bagels and coffee. Has vegan spreads.
$$ Mid-range priced Italian food made by Italian people. One of my favorite restaurants.
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Gnocco
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$$ Mid-range priced Italian food made by Italian people. One of my favorite restaurants.
$$ great modern german restaurant. one of my faves.
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Edi & The Wolf
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$$ great modern german restaurant. one of my faves.
$$ awesome french restaurant run by French people. one of my faves.
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Lucien
14 1st Ave.
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$$ awesome french restaurant run by French people. one of my faves.
$$ great tapas, paella and sangria.
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La Palapa
77 St Marks Pl
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$$ great tapas, paella and sangria.
$ - $$ Good example of American barbecue. (You'll see why they're are all fat :-)
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Mighty Quinn's Barbeque
75 2nd Ave
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$ - $$ Good example of American barbecue. (You'll see why they're are all fat :-)
$ Very inexpensive vietnamese restaurant in chinatown. My fave cheap restaurant there. Get the summer rolls.
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Nha Trang One
87 Baxter St
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$ Very inexpensive vietnamese restaurant in chinatown. My fave cheap restaurant there. Get the summer rolls.
$ Popular with tourists but I love this place too. Yummy Shanghai noodles. It's always very crowded.
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Joe's Shanghai
46 Bowery
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$ Popular with tourists but I love this place too. Yummy Shanghai noodles. It's always very crowded.
$ Great noodles!
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Sammy's Noodle Shop & Grill
West 4th Street
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$ Great noodles!
$ - $$ My sister and I go here a lot. Good for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner. (Alan Cumming the actor goes here a lot too. He lives in the 'hood.)
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The Organic Grill
133 West 3rd Street
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$ - $$ My sister and I go here a lot. Good for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner. (Alan Cumming the actor goes here a lot too. He lives in the 'hood.)
$ - $$ Great pizza. The place is run by Italian people so it's good.
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Motorino
510 Columbus Ave
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$ - $$ Great pizza. The place is run by Italian people so it's good.
$$ Organic, vegan restaurant.
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Angelica Kitchen
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$$ Organic, vegan restaurant.
$ - $$ It's part of a chain but I like this place for breakfast or lunch. They have organic food too.
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Le Pain Quotidien
861 Lexington Ave
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$ - $$ It's part of a chain but I like this place for breakfast or lunch. They have organic food too.
$ - $$ It's part of a chain but I like this place for breakfast or lunch. They have organic food too.
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Le Pain Quotidien
861 Lexington Ave
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$ - $$ It's part of a chain but I like this place for breakfast or lunch. They have organic food too.
$$ - $$$ Great seafood restaurant.
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The Mermaid Inn
570 Amsterdam Ave
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$$ - $$$ Great seafood restaurant.
$ Great, inexpensive tacos.
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Otto's Tacos
141 2nd Ave
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$ Great, inexpensive tacos.
$$ It's expensive to dine in here but it's awesome. However, if you are nearby, get some freshly made pasta in their shop and make it at home. It's phenomenally great.
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Giovanni Rana Pastificio & Cucina
75 9th Avenue
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$$ It's expensive to dine in here but it's awesome. However, if you are nearby, get some freshly made pasta in their shop and make it at home. It's phenomenally great.
$ - $$ One of my faves for brunch or dinner.
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Westville East
173 Avenue A
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$ - $$ One of my faves for brunch or dinner.
$$ Moroccan. One of my faves.
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Cafe Mogador
133 Wythe Ave
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$$ Moroccan. One of my faves.
$$ One of my favorite American restaurants. http://www.northernspyfoodco.com
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Northern Spy Food Co.
511 East 12th Street
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$$ One of my favorite American restaurants. http://www.northernspyfoodco.com
$$ - $$$ Maybe my #1 favorite restaurant. I think it's French-ish. http://www.blueribbonrestaurants.com/rests_bakery_main.htm
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Blue Ribbon Bakery Kitchen
35 Downing Street
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$$ - $$$ Maybe my #1 favorite restaurant. I think it's French-ish. http://www.blueribbonrestaurants.com/rests_bakery_main.htm
$$ - $$$ One of my favorite restaurants. Spanish (I think). http://tertulianyc.com
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Tertulia
51 W 16th St
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$$ - $$$ One of my favorite restaurants. Spanish (I think). http://tertulianyc.com
$ - $$ A southern US, place. I've only gotten food from there once - a "You're So Nasty" and was really blown away at how good it was. My friends like this place. I'll go back.
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Empire Biscuit
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$ - $$ A southern US, place. I've only gotten food from there once - a "You're So Nasty" and was really blown away at how good it was. My friends like this place. I'll go back.

Essentials

Next door. open 24/7. Not a lot of organic produce tho.
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St Marks Ale House
21 St Marks Pl
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Next door. open 24/7. Not a lot of organic produce tho.
Open 24/7. Has vegan foods but not a lot of organic produce.
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Village Farm Grocery
146 2nd Ave
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Open 24/7. Has vegan foods but not a lot of organic produce.
Excellent, small organic grocery store. Decent organic produce section.
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Commodities Health Food
165 1st Ave.
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Excellent, small organic grocery store. Decent organic produce section.
A small farmers market Sundays, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm.
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Tompkins Square Park Greenmarket
East 7th Street
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A small farmers market Sundays, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm.
Large farmers market - Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm.
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Union Square
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Large farmers market - Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm.
Small farmers market Tuesdays, 6/3/2014 - 11/25/2014, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm.
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St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Church
131 E 10th St
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Small farmers market Tuesdays, 6/3/2014 - 11/25/2014, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm.
Large grocery store. Has organic stuff. Always very crowded. I try to use the smaller places instead of this place because it's so crowded.
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Whole Foods Market
95 E Houston St
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Large grocery store. Has organic stuff. Always very crowded. I try to use the smaller places instead of this place because it's so crowded.
Large grocery store. Has good amount of organic stuff. Also has a cafe and steam trays you can get pre-made food from. Not as crowded as the Whole Foods on 14th Street.
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Whole Foods Market
95 E Houston St
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Large grocery store. Has good amount of organic stuff. Also has a cafe and steam trays you can get pre-made food from. Not as crowded as the Whole Foods on 14th Street.

Sightseeing

Groovy park.
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Tompkins Square Park
East 10th Street
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Groovy park.
An old raised railway platform recently made into a groovy modern park.
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High Line Park
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An old raised railway platform recently made into a groovy modern park.
Open in the summer. Get a free ferry there from South Ferry. It's fun to pack a lunch and picnic there and bikes there too. governorsislandalliance.org
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Fort Jay
Andes Road
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Open in the summer. Get a free ferry there from South Ferry. It's fun to pack a lunch and picnic there and bikes there too. governorsislandalliance.org
The LES - from Houston to Delancy - is a fun 'hood. Lots of nice little shops and restaurants.
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Lower East Side
175 Eldridge St
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The LES - from Houston to Delancy - is a fun 'hood. Lots of nice little shops and restaurants.
Chinatown is one of my favorite things about NYC. It's fun just to walk around and feel like you are not in NYC.
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Chinatown
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Chinatown is one of my favorite things about NYC. It's fun just to walk around and feel like you are not in NYC.
Chelsea Market is a high-end food shopping mall. The architecture is really interesting - it's in a renovated factory.
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Chelsea Market
75 9th Ave
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Chelsea Market is a high-end food shopping mall. The architecture is really interesting - it's in a renovated factory.
The West Village is old and charming. Be sure to have a map. Even people who live here get lost there because the streets are not in a grid.
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West Village
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The West Village is old and charming. Be sure to have a map. Even people who live here get lost there because the streets are not in a grid.
A nice park. Great place to people-watch on nice days.
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Washington Square Park
Washington Square
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A nice park. Great place to people-watch on nice days.
There's a pedestrian path you can walk over and back. Tale the 6 train to the Brooklyn Bridge / City Hall stop to get there.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge Promenade
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There's a pedestrian path you can walk over and back. Tale the 6 train to the Brooklyn Bridge / City Hall stop to get there.
East River Park & Promenade. Walk along the river on a nice day.
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East River State Park
90 Kent Ave
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East River Park & Promenade. Walk along the river on a nice day.
Gramercy Park is a private park but if you are nearby it's interesting to see the hifalutin homes along the park. Some are very old.
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Gramercy Park
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Gramercy Park is a private park but if you are nearby it's interesting to see the hifalutin homes along the park. Some are very old.
A nice park on the West Side if you find yourself over there on a nice day.
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Hudson River Greenway
Hudson River Greenway
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A nice park on the West Side if you find yourself over there on a nice day.
It's fun to rent a rowboat in the lake in Central Park.
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Loeb Boathouse
East 72nd Street
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It's fun to rent a rowboat in the lake in Central Park.
Bethesda Fountain is sort of like one of the centers of Central Park. Worth a look.
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Bethesda Terrace
72 Terrace Dr
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Bethesda Fountain is sort of like one of the centers of Central Park. Worth a look.
Sheep Meadow is one of the main places people go to to picnic and ly in the sun.
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Fåreengen
1802 East 65th Street
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Sheep Meadow is one of the main places people go to to picnic and ly in the sun.
Probably the ritziest hotel in the city. You can walk in and look around (and use the bathrooms). There are also shops to look at. I've gone in there for just a drink with visitors.
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The Plaza Food Hall USA
768 Central Park S
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Probably the ritziest hotel in the city. You can walk in and look around (and use the bathrooms). There are also shops to look at. I've gone in there for just a drink with visitors.
3 sets of my great-grandparents came through Ellis Island. It can be moving learning about what immigrants went through to get here. http://www.ellisisland.org
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Ellis Island
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3 sets of my great-grandparents came through Ellis Island. It can be moving learning about what immigrants went through to get here. http://www.ellisisland.org
I haven't been here yet but I've been meaning to go for years. (This reminds me I should go thanks.) frauncestavern.com It's from US colonial times 1700s. I hear there's a cool bar there.
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Fraunces Tavern
54 Pearl St
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I haven't been here yet but I've been meaning to go for years. (This reminds me I should go thanks.) frauncestavern.com It's from US colonial times 1700s. I hear there's a cool bar there.
tenement.org When the throngs of immigrants came here in the early 1900s most lived in dire conditions in tenements. (27 St Marks is an old tenement from this era.) It's interesting.
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Tenement Museum
103 Orchard St
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tenement.org When the throngs of immigrants came here in the early 1900s most lived in dire conditions in tenements. (27 St Marks is an old tenement from this era.) It's interesting.
This is the 'hood where the cool 20-somethings live and hang out. (When I younger the East Village was the cool 'hood.) All I know is that the Bedford Ave subway stop is the central subway stop.
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Williamsburg
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This is the 'hood where the cool 20-somethings live and hang out. (When I younger the East Village was the cool 'hood.) All I know is that the Bedford Ave subway stop is the central subway stop.

Drinks & Nightlife

$$ Cool Barvarian beer haus and some german food too.
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Zum Schneider NYC
107 Loisaida Ave
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$$ Cool Barvarian beer haus and some german food too.

Everything Else

Laundry - You can bring in your laundry and pick it up usually the next day. They'll also pick up and deliver from the apartment.
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Lois Dry Cleaners
45 3rd Ave
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Laundry - You can bring in your laundry and pick it up usually the next day. They'll also pick up and deliver from the apartment.
Closest pharmacy if you need anything.
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Duane Reade
3506 Broadway
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Closest pharmacy if you need anything.

Shopping

A good place to get gifts.
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Exit9 Gift Emporium
51 Avenue A
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A good place to get gifts.
A good place to get gifts.
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Alphabets
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A good place to get gifts.

Arts & Culture

Big museum.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
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Big museum.
As I write this there's a great Italian Futurist exhibit there that I really enjoyed.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim-museet
1071 5th Ave
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As I write this there's a great Italian Futurist exhibit there that I really enjoyed.
Big, modern art museum.
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Whitney Museum Shop
99 Gansevoort St
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Big, modern art museum.
Big, modern art museum. (I saw Kraftwerk there in 2012. It was a highlight of my life.)
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The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
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Big, modern art museum. (I saw Kraftwerk there in 2012. It was a highlight of my life.)
Modern museum.
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Nyt Museum for Nutidig Kunst
235 Bowery
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Modern museum.
momaps1.org - on summer afternoons they have DJs and it's very cool. Don't know if they'll start in May.
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MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave
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momaps1.org - on summer afternoons they have DJs and it's very cool. Don't know if they'll start in May.
The only Broadway play I've ever loved is the Book of Mormon. I laughed so hard I cried. bookofmormonbroadway.com -- or try for last minute tickets at the TKTS booth in Times Square.
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Eugene O'Neill Theatre
230 W 49th St
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The only Broadway play I've ever loved is the Book of Mormon. I laughed so hard I cried. bookofmormonbroadway.com -- or try for last minute tickets at the TKTS booth in Times Square.
This ticket booth sells discount tickets on a last-minute basis. You never know what they'll have but people have luck sometimes. Worth a try if you just want to see a show and aren't too choosy.
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TKTS Times Square
West 47th Street
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This ticket booth sells discount tickets on a last-minute basis. You never know what they'll have but people have luck sometimes. Worth a try if you just want to see a show and aren't too choosy.
I haven't been here yet but it's on my list of places to check out. http://unbouncepages.com/morbidanatomymuseum/
The Morbid Anatomy Library
421 36th Street
I haven't been here yet but it's on my list of places to check out. http://unbouncepages.com/morbidanatomymuseum/