The natural waterfall at the Ravine is a beauty (especially with fall foliage)! Sit on a rock and forget that you're in the middle of Manhattan
The 21 Club is a world famous New York restaurant that started out as a Prohibition-era speakeasy.
A boutique hotel is organized by Dewey Decimal Classification. Each room has a little library of books related to its category, but surprisingly few readers. Read more at the link: Leer más.
Relax and enjoy lunch or a good read a in this beautiful “secret garden”. Best to go when all the springtime flowers are in bloom. Fido is allowed too!
The best far-downtown place to read, write, or (duh) find great poetry, the brand-new Poets House is free and open to the public.
The portico dates from 1903, and was designed by Stanford White for the church's original Madison Avenue location.
The part of Manhattan that's most like London. Many fine 19th & early 20th century houses and apartments surround a private park. Urban plan 1831, Samuel Ruggles.
Rockefeller Center's visual and spiritual counterpoint. Oldest Catholic Church in NYC; largest Neo-Gothic-style Catholic cathedral in North America.
There is fine architecture in every block of this resurrected old shopping district filled with design and fashion studios and startups.
An indie park, an anti-campus. Chelsea boys, JDaters, and pretty women, dressed in rompers, promenade in front of people-watchers, perched like fashion editors on wooden benches. Leer más.
We love coming to this effortlessly cute spot for a romantic brunch. Definitely try the Prego Roll, the Rosewater Waffle or the Green Shakshuka and a Sweetened Iced Green Tea.
The beers come in different sizes, the largest being a 2-liter boot, and waitresses wear traditional Bavarian dirndls and ruffled blouses.
For whatever it's worth, this may be the only movie theater in the U.S. serving carrot cake, rugelach, and smoked salmon sandwiches. (I love New York.)
