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David Geffen Hall
The New York Philharmonic’s home also welcomes visiting orchestras and cross-disciplinary work, with smaller public spaces opening the building to other kinds of visits.
The New York edit
Places worth your time
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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Alice Tully Hall
An intimate concert-hall setting for chamber music, visiting ensembles and programmes that cross classical music, film and performance.
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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Recordings, scores, archives and exhibitions make this a destination for people interested in the work behind music, theatre and dance.
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Dizzy’s Club
Small groups, big bands and vocalists play above Columbus Circle in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s club, with food and drinks alongside the music.
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Jewish Children’s Museum
Jewish life and history become interactive, child-scaled experiences in Crown Heights, with games and hands-on exhibits alongside special programmes.
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The Africa Center
Exhibitions, films and public conversations connect contemporary African culture with its wider global context at the northern end of Museum Mile.
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Museum of Sex
An adult-oriented museum exploring sexuality through exhibitions and an immersive entertainment component, close to the Flatiron area.
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MoCADA Culture Lab II
MoCADA's main gallery brings art from Africa and its diaspora into the L10 building, with exhibitions, conversation and a neighbouring café.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Period rooms, a carriage house and formal gardens offer a different kind of Bronx museum visit inside Pelham Bay Park.
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Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
A Staten Island house museum connects Antonio Meucci, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Italian-American cultural history through objects, tours and public programmes.
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Old Stone House
A reconstructed historic house in Washington Park combines Brooklyn's Revolutionary history with exhibitions, education and neighbourhood cultural activity.
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Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
Guided rooms and a small garden revisit the era when this 1799 building became a day resort outside New York's busy centre.
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The Paley Museum
Television, radio and screen culture take museum form through archival viewing, screenings, exhibitions and gaming experiences in Midtown.
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National Museum of Mathematics
Hands-on exhibits turn mathematical ideas into things visitors can move, test and play with at MoMath's new Sixth Avenue home.
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Merkin Hall
An intimate Upper West Side concert hall with programming spanning contemporary composition, emerging classical performers, Broadway and family music.
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The PIT Loft
Improv, sketch and community comedy share a second-floor stage at the Peoples Improv Theater's West 29th Street address.
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Cherry Lane Theatre
A small Greenwich Village theatre with a long Off-Broadway history and a current programme of intimate, contemporary stage work.
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Music Box Theatre
Originally created around Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, this West 45th Street playhouse now hosts changing Broadway productions.
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New World Stages
Five Off-Broadway stages share one complex and a common lobby near Worldwide Plaza, giving a single address several different theatrical personalities.
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Broadway Theatre
One of the few Broadway playhouses actually fronting Broadway, this former film house now provides a large setting for musical theatre.
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Winter Garden Theatre
A prominent Broadway musical-theatre house between West 50th and 51st Streets, with an orchestra and mezzanine seating plan.
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Booth Theatre
Named for actor Edwin Booth, this comparatively compact Broadway playhouse places dramatic work in the busy West 45th Street theatre cluster.
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Ambassador Theatre
A Shubert playhouse dating from the early 1920s, the Ambassador is closely associated with Broadway's long-running Chicago revival.
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Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
A Broadway house on West 45th Street, also labelled Jacobs Theatre in current listings, with several seating levels around a proscenium stage.