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Queens Museum
Art and the Panorama of the City of New York make this a strong starting point for exploring Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
The New York edit
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 the City of New York
The city becomes the subject, from its neighbourhoods and communities to the forces that keep changing it.
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New York Transit Museum
A former subway station becomes a museum of the systems that keep New York moving.
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The Morgan Library & Museum
Books, manuscripts and art surround a remarkable historic library, a compact cultural retreat in Midtown.
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Museum of Chinese in America
Chinese American history and culture offer a thoughtful starting point for a walk around Chinatown.
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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.
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Intrepid Museum
An aircraft carrier on the Hudson opens a route into maritime, aviation and space history.
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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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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.
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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.