PlaceFood & drink
The Django
A jazz cellar beneath the Roxy Hotel, with brick arches, a supper menu and a reason to build the evening around a set.
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Recently added recommendations. New here does not mean newly opened. This is our growing New York selection. Follow each listing for checked practical information and the official source.
PlaceFood & drink
Bemelmans Bar
Murals, a piano and an Upper East Side room that rewards staying put. The Carlyle’s bar makes an occasion out of one good stop.
GuideFood & drink
Downtown, from an atrium to a jazz cellar
Dinner under The Beekman’s soaring atrium, then a set beneath the Roxy. Two downtown rooms are enough to make a whole New York evening.
PlaceCulture
The Noguchi Museum
A quieter Queens afternoon with sculpture, space and a garden, a short walk from the East River.
PlaceConcerts
Le Bain
A Meatpacking District finale above The Standard, where the skyline gives way to the night’s DJ programme.
GuideCulture
Downtown art, a slice and the last record
SoHo drawings, a Village slice, the Whitney, the High Line and a Meatpacking night. A west-side day with several changes of scene.
GuideCulture
Queens for art lovers: sculpture, cinema and a city in miniature
Noguchi, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Museum of the Moving Image and Queens Museum. Four reasons to leave Manhattan, arranged as choices rather than a rushed borough-wide tour.
PlaceCulture
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Fifth Avenue collection on a vast scale. Choose a few rooms, then let one unexpected object redirect the afternoon.
PlaceCulture
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral gives the art a remarkable setting, making the architecture part of every visit.
PlaceCulture
American Museum of Natural History
Natural history fills an Upper West Side landmark, with enough to explore to make this the main plan of the day.
PlaceCulture
Brooklyn Museum
A major art collection beside Prospect Park, connecting a gallery afternoon with Brooklyn’s outdoor spaces.
PlaceCulture
Museum of the Moving Image
Film, television and screen culture become the subject in Astoria, inside a neighbourhood with its own filmmaking history.
PlaceCulture
American Folk Art Museum
Self-taught artists and folk traditions offer a focused art stop near Lincoln Center.
PlaceCulture
The Jewish Museum
Art and Jewish culture meet on Museum Mile, inside the historic Warburg mansion.
PlaceCulture
The New York Historical
New York and American history are told through objects, art and changing exhibitions beside Central Park.
PlaceCulture
El Museo del Barrio
Latin American, Caribbean and Latino art give East Harlem a cultural destination of its own.
PlaceCulture
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Jewish history and remembrance in Battery Park City, with the harbour landscape nearby.
PlaceCulture
Queens Museum
Art and the Panorama of the City of New York make this a strong starting point for exploring Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
PlaceCulture
Museum of the City of New York
The city becomes the subject, from its neighbourhoods and communities to the forces that keep changing it.
PlaceCulture
New York Transit Museum
A former subway station becomes a museum of the systems that keep New York moving.
PlaceCulture
The Morgan Library & Museum
Books, manuscripts and art surround a remarkable historic library, a compact cultural retreat in Midtown.
PlaceCulture
Museum of Chinese in America
Chinese American history and culture offer a thoughtful starting point for a walk around Chinatown.
PlaceCulture
The Studio Museum in Harlem
A Harlem institution centred on artists of African descent, with a programme to check before building your visit around it.
PlaceCulture
Intrepid Museum
An aircraft carrier on the Hudson opens a route into maritime, aviation and space history.