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Tenement Museum
Lower East Side homes become a way to understand immigration and working lives through guided visits.
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Recently added recommendations. New here does not mean newly opened.
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.
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9/11 Memorial & Museum
A place for remembrance and historical understanding at the World Trade Center site. Allow time for a considered visit.
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The Met Cloisters
Medieval art and cloister gardens overlook the Hudson, a very different setting from the Met’s Fifth Avenue galleries.
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The Skyscraper Museum
Tall buildings become a subject to examine before looking back up at the Lower Manhattan skyline.
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New York Hall of Science
Hands-on science gives Queens a destination that works well as the centre of a family day.
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Museum at Eldridge Street
A restored synagogue becomes an architectural and cultural landmark on the Lower East Side.
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African Burial Ground National Monument
An important Lower Manhattan site of remembrance, revealing a history that once lay beneath the modern city.
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Hamilton Grange National Memorial
Alexander Hamilton’s home gives a northern-Manhattan walk a tangible connection to the early republic.
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Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
A surviving farmhouse in Inwood reveals a landscape that predates the surrounding city streets.
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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
A reconstructed historic home offers a focused visit to the early life of a future president.
PlaceOutdoors
Central Park
Choose a section rather than trying to cover everything: woodland paths, lakes and open lawns give Manhattan many different outdoor moods.
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Prospect Park
Brooklyn’s broad green heart makes room for a long walk, a lakeside pause and an afternoon without too many appointments.
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Madison Square Park
A compact green space among landmark buildings, with public art adding another reason to stop and look.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park
A carefully composed landscape at the tip of Roosevelt Island opens onto wide East River views.
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Hudson River Park
Piers and waterside paths connect the west side of Manhattan through a long sequence of outdoor stops.
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Riverside Park
A Hudson-side route on the Upper West Side, with paths and landscaped spaces that invite a longer walk.
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Washington Square Park
The arch frames a Greenwich Village meeting place where sitting and watching can be the best part of the visit.
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Inwood Hill Park
Wooded paths and a less manicured landscape reveal another side of Manhattan at its northern end.
EventExhibitions
Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design
MoMA looks at how designers turn data into visual stories, and how those choices shape what we understand and trust.
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Marcus Garvey Park
A Harlem neighbourhood park with a rocky rise and space to pause between local cultural stops.
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Fort Tryon Park
Gardens and elevated Hudson views make the journey north worthwhile, with the Met Cloisters close by.
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Gantry Plaza State Park
Long Island City’s waterfront offers an open view back towards Manhattan, framed by former industrial gantries.
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Tompkins Square Park
An East Village outdoor stop surrounded by small streets, cafés and places to continue the evening.
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Flushing Meadows Corona Park
World’s Fair landmarks and broad parkland make this Queens landscape much more than a quick photo stop.