As art became an industry in the 1980s, this is where its participants drank and ate (and smoked). Though Mary Boone and Julian Schnabel are gone, its French bistro food is still solid.
After ordering the infamous lobster pot pie or their signature burger with fried pork belly at this A-list hangout, make sure you gaze over at the Basquiat and the LaChapelle on the wall.
Everything is good but I must say the stir fry vegetables make my mouth water. And if you love cakes, like I love cakes… look out. -David Applebaum, Launch My Line
Stop by this cart for homemade gelato while enjoying the people-watching in Washington Square Park. Try a dark chocolate and strawberry together!
Juiciest soup dumplings around, literally bursting in scalding-hot flavor
Designed by Modernist master Mies van der Rohe, it has a Koons Balloon Dog sculpture in its lobby and the Four Seasons restaurant (for which Rothko made paintings) off to one side.
Begin or end your MoMA trip at this award-winning restaurant, which showcases German artist Thomas Demand. Look closely - the forest is not real but created with 270,000 intricate paper leaves. En savoir plus .
An Andy Warhol self-portrait sold for a record $32.6m on May 12, 2010, at the auction house's contemporary art sale. The painting is the most expensive work of 1980s art ever sold at auction.
This SoHo gallery is one of the neighborhood's best, representing the photographer of America's naked youth, Ryan McGinley, and a handful of other rising stars.
Perhaps the most slept-on major museum in NYC, the Bronx Museum anchors the Grand Concourse with a world-class collection of modern works.
This adventurous, highly intellectual Chinatown gallery is known for showing important stars-to-be and hosting unpublicized openings that draw the New York art elite.
At 16th Street, look east! There you will see the art-filled showrooms of boutique auctioneer Phillips de Pury & Company, which just sold a Richard Prince "Nurse" painting for $6.5m.
Though it's only a tiny strip of land in downtown Manhattan, this street has been home to artists as wide-ranging as Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Agnes Martin, and Robert Indiana.
Order a chocolate egg cream soda - the best in the city. This iconic institution has the oldest soda jerk in NYC. Oh, the chocolate malt shake is another must try.
The Forum hosts a series of fascinating shows throughout the year. Worth the trip for what may be the strangest building in Midtown: one of the few Raimund Abraham designs ever built.
David Chang brings Midtown Manhattan a menu of French-Vietnamese cuisine served in an austere, eco-friendly room with communal tables and Miguel Calderon's painting "Bad Route." En savoir plus .
The best sculpture at the Museum is Isamu Noguchi's Unidentified Object by the entrance to the parking garage! (John, Watson Library)
Cool off with the breeze of the Hudson River – and take in the stunning view – with traditional pub fare and drinks during happy hour on weekdays from 4pm to 7pm.
OMG: Try their Scottish smoked salmon wrapped around some North Fork salt and vinegar potato chips. And on the other side of the aisle, the dried strawberries are amazing... En savoir plus .
