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Brooklyn Bridge Park
A waterfront walk with Manhattan across the water. Come for a change of pace, a stretch of lawn or the view from the piers.
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Places worth your time
The museums, galleries and parks behind our New York edit.
The museums, galleries and parks behind our New York edit. This is our growing New York selection. Follow each listing for checked practical information and the official source.
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Museum of Modern Art: MoMA
Modern and contemporary art in Midtown. Choose a few galleries to linger in, then leave room for the sculpture garden.
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Whitney Museum of American Art
American art beside the Hudson, with the High Line close by. Make a gallery visit the anchor of a west-side afternoon.
Free entry
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The Drawing Center
A free art stop on Wooster Street, devoted to what drawing can be. Start with the current exhibition and look closely.
Free entry
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The High Line
Gardens and a different angle on the streets below. Follow as much of the elevated park as you feel like, with no entry fee.
Free entry
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Bryant Park
A free Midtown pause behind the New York Public Library. Bring a book, find a chair and look up at the buildings around you.
Free entry
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New York Public Library: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
A free cultural stop on Fifth Avenue, where grand public rooms sit alongside a working research library and exhibitions drawn from its collections.
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
A museum for looking at how things are made and used, housed on the Upper East Side. A strong choice when you want design rather than another painting gallery.
Free entry
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Socrates Sculpture Park
A free outdoor art park on the Queens waterfront, with changing installations and a view across the East River.
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The Bar Room at The Beekman
Cocktails and a table beneath The Beekman’s soaring atrium, a downtown address where looking up is part of the evening.
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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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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.
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The Noguchi Museum
A quieter Queens afternoon with sculpture, space and a garden, a short walk from the East River.
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Le Bain
A Meatpacking District finale above The Standard, where the skyline gives way to the night’s DJ programme.
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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.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral gives the art a remarkable setting, making the architecture part of every visit.
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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.
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Brooklyn Museum
A major art collection beside Prospect Park, connecting a gallery afternoon with Brooklyn’s outdoor spaces.
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Museum of the Moving Image
Film, television and screen culture become the subject in Astoria, inside a neighbourhood with its own filmmaking history.
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American Folk Art Museum
Self-taught artists and folk traditions offer a focused art stop near Lincoln Center.
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The Jewish Museum
Art and Jewish culture meet on Museum Mile, inside the historic Warburg mansion.
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The New York Historical
New York and American history are told through objects, art and changing exhibitions beside Central Park.
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El Museo del Barrio
Latin American, Caribbean and Latino art give East Harlem a cultural destination of its own.
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Museum of Jewish Heritage
Jewish history and remembrance in Battery Park City, with the harbour landscape nearby.