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Alice Tully Hall
Chamber music has never sounded as good as in the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which was given a complete overhaul as part of the Lincoln Center renovation. Named for the chamber music patron (herself a former singer) who helped with...
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History on New York’s Upper West Side is a bona fide paradise for children (and many adults). The extensive space has a number of rotating exhibitions as well as halls dedicated to such topics as...
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Asia Society and Museum
John D. Rockefeller III founded this international non-profit with the goal of increasing Americans’ understanding of Asia. The organization’s NYC headquarters houses Rockefeller’s extensive collection of Pan-Asian art and hosts a number of contemporary art exhibits, lectures and panel discussions...
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Barclays Center
Opened in 2012, the modern, sweeping Barclays Center has quickly become a crown jewel in Brooklyn's collection. Steps from the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center subway station, the stadium seems to rise out of the ground like a rust-colored beehive, bright lights...
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Broadway & Off-Broadway
Long gone are the days where you could discover up-and-coming actors and blossoming writers/directors on Broadway or even off-Broadway. The shows these days are either big-name musicals years in the making, many of which can now also be seen on...
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Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Located in Fort Greene, close to Barclays Center and Mark Morris Dance Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is renowned for its cutting-edge programming, including contemporary dance, theater, opera, film and music. Its Next Wave Festival in the fall draws...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Clocking in at 52 acres, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden doesn’t have the size of its sister in the Bronx (which measure some 250 acres), but this gem of a green spot in Prospect Heights is well-worth a visit, even if...
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Brooklyn Bridge
One of the oldest suspension bridges in the country, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first bridge to connect Brooklyn and Manhattan
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Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park is a former industrial wasteland that is now of the city’s most beautifully landscaped parks, with waterfront views.
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Brooklyn Flea
Started as a quaint neighborhood bazaar, the Brooklyn Flea (it launched in 2008) is a sprawling market that takes place in Fort Greene in the summer months and inside the gorgeous One Hanson Place bank building the winter (there's also...
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Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Offering far-reaching views of the Manhattan skyline, a walk down the Brooklyn Heights Promenade is a reminder of why New York City is so special. Come at sunset and bring your camera. Afterwards, dine at one of the many lovely...
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Brooklyn Museum
This beautiful Beaux-Arts style museum is the city's second largest, with a staggering 1.8 million works in their collection. There are exhibits from all over the world (including amazing Egyptian artifacts), but the emphasis is on American art and artists....
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Bryant Park
This square of green in the middle of Midtown likes to think of itself as New York’s version of a Parisian garden (albeit much-more modestly sized), with wrought-iron lawn chairs and graveled allées. In the summers, HBO hosts a Monday...
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Carnegie Hall
One of the world’s most prestigious concert venues, Carnegie Hall presides over the corner of Seventh Avenue and 57th Street like a proud grand dame from another era. Clad in red brick, the massive building is impressively made entirely out...
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Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Built in the 1890s to rival the grand St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown, St. John the Divine in upper Manhattan is the second largest Anglican church in the world (and much bigger than St. Patrick's). Architectural styles include Byzantine, Romanesque...
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Central Park Zoo
Despite its location in the heavily visited Central Park, the Central Park Zoo is a small and rather quiet enclave, allowing for a relatively intimate experience. The grounds are home to an indoor rainforest, 4-D theater, and sea lion pool...
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Chelsea Piers
Set along the Hudson River Park on the fringes of Chelsea and the Meatpacking District, Chelsea Piers is a massive complex that houses a micro-brewery, sports arenas (including batting cages, basketball courts, ice rinks and more), day spa, bowling alley...
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Children’s Museum of Manhattan
The Children’s Museum of Manhattan on the Upper West Side fuses learning and playtime. The interactive, five-floor museum is geared toward younger children, with areas designated to infants, toddlers and preschoolers, and all the activities are intended to engage mentally,...
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Cloisters
The magnificent pile atop Fort Tryon hill, which looks out over upper Manhattan, has the look of a much earlier construction, though it was built only in the 1930s. The purpose of the institution, which is part of the Met,...
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Coney Island
After the devastation wreaked by 2012's Hurricane Sandy, this Brooklyn institution reopened its gates better than ever. Quintessentially American, Coney Island today is not very different from its 1950's heyday, with kitschy boardwalk shops and legendary Nathan's Hotdogs still intact....
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David Geffen Hall
The home of the New York Philharmonic (formerly known as Avery Fisher Hall) completes the trinity of theaters at Lincoln Center (the Metropolitan Opera sits to its left; New York State Theater is directly across the plaza). These days the...
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Dia: Beacon
Opened in 2003 in a former Nabisco factory, the DIA is a must for art lovers. The collection includes Warhol, Bourgeois, Chamberlain and Richter, with four massive Richard Serra installations forming an emotional center and definite highlight. The DIA is...
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Ellis Island Immigration Museum
The former arrivals hall on Ellis Island that processed over 12,000,000 people is today home to a moving museum honoring the immigrants who risked everything to start a new life in the U.S. It is said that half of all...
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Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim name has long been associated with modernity and celebrity. Some might even argue that its birth coincides with the rise in our culture of modern celebrity. When philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim founded his first museum in 1939, the...
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Hiking the Hudson Valley
The Hudson Valley offers incredible hiking, ranging from total beginner trails (basically scenic walks in a park) to challenging, steep terrain that includes some climbing. On the western side of the river, one scenic destination is the Minnewaska State Park,...
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Hudson River Park
In an effort to beautify Manhattan’s west side, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Governor George Pataki began construction on the Hudson River Park in 1998. The project was the largest park building effort since Central Park, and the 550-acre area now...
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Indagare Tours: Chelsea Galleries
In the 1990s, contemporary art galleries flocked to the otherwise bare bones neighborhood of west Chelsea, lured by vast warehouse-type space and some of the lowest rents in Manhattan. Today the district is home to the hottest galleries, both blue...
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Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Military fans love the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, which is dedicated to maritime history. The institution has an impressive collection of ships, including the Intrepid itself, an aircraft carrier used in World War II and the Vietnem War....
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James Beard Foundation
In the 1980s, a former student of James Beard purchased the late chef's home to turn it into the headquarters for the James Beard Foundation, an organization that aims to educate chefs and laymen alike about the culinary world. The...
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Jazz at Lincoln Center
Since 2004, this venue is no longer at Lincoln Center but glorious new digs (at the Time Warner Center) with sweeping views of Central Park that more than make up for the confusion. There are three theaters, from the larger...
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Joyce Theater
For dance aficionados, the Joyce in Chelsea has long been known as a more intimate venue to see a host of performances, from classical ballet to cutting-edge contemporary pieces. The theater originally opened as a home for Eliot Feld’s groundbreaking...
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Madison Square Garden
A focal point of Midtown Manhattan, Madison Square Garden wears two hats: sporting arena and concert hall. The iconic landmark, often referred to as simply “The Garden,” is home to basketball and hockey teams the New York Knicks and Rangers,...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met)
The permanent collection of this famed museum contains more than two million works of art. Don’t miss the stunning wings that house the extensive collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, American antiques and Islamic Art. The 19th century galleries, home...
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Metropolitan Opera
For opera lovers, there’s only one Met (and it’s not the Upper East Side Museum). With its red-velvet staircases, gilded banisters, two massive Chagalls and ritual of slowly rising Swarovski chandeliers, the city’s opera house holds on to old-world glamour...
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Museum of Arts and Design
At the southern edge of Columbus Circle, opposite Central Park, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) is home to an excellent collection of pieces showcasing contemporary and historic craftworks, art and design—and how these pieces inform our modern lives....
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National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Shrouded in a forest of trees, two one-acre square pools occupy the gaping and emotionally charged space where the Twin Towers once stood. The solemn monument, opened in 2011, features the name of the victims who died in the terrorist...
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New York City Ballet
The company founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine in 1948 is one of the world’s top five ballet ensembles (the Kirov, Bolshoi, Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet round out the upper tiers). Of these, it is also the...
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Olana
The hilltop estate of Frederic Church, one of the most famous and well-known painters of the Hudson River School, is must if you’re visiting Hudson or Rhinebeck. At its center is a whimsical, red-brick villa composed of myriad styles (Victorian...
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Prospect Park
This grand urban oasis was built in the 1860s, the project of landscaping visionaries Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who also created Central Park. The 585-acre Prospect Park is truly Brooklyn’s backyard; in fair weather, locals can be found...
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Smorgasburg
The epitome of what Brooklynites love to hate (or hate to love) about their newly hip borough, the Smorgasbord food market grew out of the ever-popular Brooklyn Flea. Boasting over 100 delicious vendors and views of the Manhattan skyline, Smorgasburg...
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Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture
For New Yorkers, this working farm-cum-gourmet-temple make a glorious first or last stop on a Hudson Valley visit. Everyone knows about Dan Barber’s two award-winning restaurants (once the Obamas had enjoyed a date night in the New York City location,...
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Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
The seduction of Stone Barns begins as the car winds along the charming country roads near Pocantico Hills, past small towns, clapboard cottages and rolling pastures. By the time visitors pull into what was once the Rockefeller estate, thirty miles...
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Storm King Art Center
This incredible open-air museum and sculpture park was conceived in 1960 as a place to exhibit the works of painters by the Hudson Valley School. Today it has expanded into an enormous sculpture garden, with important pieces by Calder, Noguchi,...
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The Broken Kilometer
Inside a nondescript SoHo building, The Broken Kilometer is artist Walter De Maria’s permanent installation—on view since 1979, maintained by Dia Art Foundation—featuring 500 polished brass rods arranged in parallel columns along the floor. In total, the rods measure a combined...
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The High Line
Opened in 2006 (and still expanding), the High Line is one of the West Side’s biggest attractions. Spanning tens of blocks from the Meatpacking District to Midtown, the elevated park, set on refurbished train tracks, offers unobstructed views of the...