It's all about the shoes - best shoe department, hands down!!!! -Caroline Manzo, Real Housewives of NJ
This is where Robert Verdi gets me deals on all my designer clothes. -Kathy Griffin, Life On The D-List
Come to this place if you drink vodka and like to be seen at the downtown hip place. Lots of people and good music. -Ed Cotton, Top Chef
Located in Chelsea Market, this Italian store sells great imported producers from great cheese to fennel branches to chestnut flour. I love shopping there. -Ed Cotton, Top Chef
This is the best place to shop for spices in the city and also get a falafel sandwich there. -Ed Cotton, Top Chef
Great selection of organic products and great selection of sugar derivatives for people with diabetes. I did a dinner and made desserts using Stevia. -Ed Cotton, Top Chef
Hidden in the back of this well-appointed shop is one of the best salons in NYC - their prices can't be beat. Catherine is an amazing colorist and Anna is an artist with the shears! -Jacqueline Lombar
One of my favorite purveyors. Their new port steak is delicious! I also get my turkeys here. -Jacqueline Lombard, Top Chef
Open only on the weekends, this artists' collaborative is a great lace to discover new designers or vintage duds, jewelry, accessories and even delicious munchies! -Jacqueline Lombard, Top Chef
The largest store in the world, it has just about everything you need. I love their perfume department. -Tamesha Warren, Top Chef
Great place for Latin produce, ingredients and cheeses. -Carmen Gonzalez, Top Chef
There’s always something in this cook’s paradise that you didn’t realize you needed, as well as all the things you knew you needed.-Wylie Dufresne, Top Chef
Great Japanese knives and cutting boards. I’m left handed and really appreciate that, for 50% extra, they will make you a left handed knife.-Wylie Dufresne, Top Chef
Place to go when your wife deserves a beautiful gift, and when doesn’t she?-Wylie Dufresne, Top Chef
I love to buy shoes for my wife and these are my favorites. They’re both elegant and sexy.-Wylie Dufresne, Top Chef
I love to buy shoes for my wife and these are my favorites. They’re both elegant and sexy.-Wylie Dufresne, Top Chef
I’ve had MANY wonderful meals at Prune, but love to go for brunch for their numerous iterations of Bloody Marys with incredible garnishes. If you’ve got a party of four or more, ask for the only table
The creativity of the presentation and flavor combinations of the food will make you wonder in delight. Bring a camera for sure. -Maria Hines, Top Chef
When I go to New York, I always go to Century 21 to scope out the deals. It’s the place where I can afford to buy Armani! -Maria Hines, Top Chef
Such great food. I can’t resist going there every time I go to New York. -Susan Feniger, Top Chef
It was a whimsical place for LuAnn to ask Ramona how her behavior lets her sleeps at night, but perhaps she just wanted to offer her a cup chamomile to help the process?
I had a wonderful ladies baby shower there recently. The setting is perfect, and I love that it is family owned. -Luann De Lesseps, Real Housewives of New York City
The perfect active date spot, Carnival at Bowlmor Lanes was a relaxed spot for a Millionaire mixer. Plus if things go wrong you can always toss the loser suitors in the dunk tank.
My favorite place to buy suits and sport coats. Great service, great location, great product. -Rick Tramonto, Top Chef
This is an amazing little middle eastern/Druze cooking. My friend turned me on to it on my last trip to NYC. Incredible, authentic food. Really fresh and interesting -Susan Feniger, Top Chef
Any spot that plays host to a fight disastrous enough to have Ramona in tears and Jill calling Bobby lamenting “She did it to me again” has to be included.
Dedicated in 1921, this statue depicts the 19th century, Venezuela-born general who has been referred to as the "George Washington of South America."
Unveiled in 1872, this statue by John Quincy Adams Ward pays tribute to one of the world's most famous playwrights, who lived from 1564 to 1616.
Displayed in its current location since 1989, this 7,000-pound bronze sculpture has become a famous symbol of American capitalism.
The park gets its name from the series of artillery batteries built along the area’s waterfront for protection, starting in the later part of the 17th century.
According to an old school legend, the first Columbia College boy of every class to find the owl hidden in Alma Mater’s robes will graduate valedictorian and marry a Barnard girl.
Opened in 1892, Ellis Island served as a federal immigration station for more than 60 years until it closed in 1954. Millions of newly arrived immigrants passed through the station during that time.
Designed by Max Abramovitz, the hall opened in 1962 as Philharmonic Hall, as the new home concert venue of the New York Philharmonic, after the orchestra moved from Carnegie Hall.
From 1921 to 2008, this building housed the American Stock Exchange and its earlier incarnations, the New York Curb Market and the New York Curb Exchange.
Over the years this building, opened in 1842, has been home to the New York Merchants Exchange and National City Bank (now Citibank), among others.
Completed in 1907, this Beaux Arts building housed U.S. Customs Service operations for the port of New York until 1973.
The best spot to discover your new favorite hobby gives you an up-close view of its artisans-in-residence during its daily open studio. Interactive workshops offer hands-on training from the experts. Leer más.
The best year-round market brings together 150 local vendors carrying all manner of vintage, handmade and antique wares. The Flea will move to its winter location on November 26. Leer más.
The best year-round market brings together 150 local vendors carrying all manner of vintage, handmade and antique wares. The Flea will move to its winter location on November 26.
The best place to remember why you love Brooklyn examines the borough’s historical, cultural and gastronomic legacies through its permanent collection, rotating exhibitions and events. Leer más.
The best literary hot spot boasts a warm atmosphere, well-curated selection and convivial café. It also has the city’s first Espresso Book Machine, which prints a growing number of texts on demand. Leer más.
The best theater to catch your favorite old movie has exquisite repertory and revival programming such as pre-Code oldies, ’70s NYC crime thrillers and French classics —plus gourmet snacks! Leer más.
The best theater to see a movie that will change your life hosts new art-house titles (at its Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center), rep series and beaucoup festival offerings. Leer más.
The slim restaurant’s sardine-can-size kitchen sends out wild riffs on sushi, like pork-belly or chopped-beef-with-uni & more gluttonous dishes like a grilled cheese sandwich oozing melted foie gras. Leer más.
Proletariat is a much-deserved look into no-holds-barred beer geekdom, blissfully free of TVs, generic pub grub & high-fiving mooks. It holds only 12 stools & its menus have been replaced w/ a QR code Leer más.
The New Nordic Wonder award winner's tasting menu turned the forest’s prickly underbelly—all hairy roots, funky fungi & fallen leaves—into some of the most stunning plates of 2013. Leer más.
