This causal restaurant at the northern tip of Manhattan puts a twist on comfort-food classics. Enjoy the lobster macaroni & cheese ($16) on tables from Nuovo Vesuvio, a restaurant on "The Sopranos." En savoir plus .
Vegetables are the new meat at this elegant spot for shojin Buddhist cuisine like persimmon with sesame cream and fragrant rice balls called ohagi. Featured in Where to Eat 2011! En savoir plus .
Pizzas are nicely singed. Also good: arugula with bresaola, pickled pig’s tongue, mackerel with lemon jelly, wood-roasted chicken, wood-roasted Berkshire pork chop. En savoir plus .
Recommended: Soups, steamed mussels, roasted halibut, pickled artichokes, hanger steak, roast chicken or game hen, chocolate pine nut tart. En savoir plus .
The best place to remember why you love Manhattan takes you above the city while keeping you rooted in urban life. Walk through a field of wildflowers as cabs zoom along the street beneath you. En savoir plus .
The Greenmarket-inspired menu at this rustic eatery features seasonal fare. Enjoy a romantic jazz soundtrack while you eat courtesy of the restaurant’s Friday Night Music series (7:30–10:30pm). En savoir plus .
The best place to forget that you’re in NYC is crammed with gardens, forests and other quiet nooks that are perfect for chilling out. No visit here is complete without a stop by the Cloisters. En savoir plus .
The best waterfront in NYC offers a unique view of the lower Manhattan skyline, aquatic features, such as a salt marsh filled with native cordgrass, and Jane’s Carousel, a restored ride from 1922. En savoir plus .
The best place to find your inner Zen boasts relaxed, peaceful grounds. Claim a spot near the serene Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, surrounded by Japanese myrtle and cypress trees, and bliss out. En savoir plus .
The chef’s fondness for wild food is reflected in both the menu and the restaurant’s décor. When asked about the vertical herb garden growing in the dining room, a server once replied, “It’s alive.” En savoir plus .
The Foundation is starting to offer tours via an online reservation system here http://www.juddfoundation.org/visit_ny. And an article on the restoration by the NY Times here En savoir plus .
This beloved dive is the best bar to sing your heart out in a group. Every night, a pianist mines the Great American Songbook well into the wee hours for Broadway babies from all over the city. En savoir plus .
The best theater to see a movie that will change your life hosts new art-house titles (at its Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center), rep series and beaucoup festival offerings. En savoir plus .
"The excitement in that room full of strangers is genuine, and infectious, and you might just hear a story, at the table or in the food, that you wouldn’t have otherwise." En savoir plus .
Fort Tilden originally served as one of the most modern additions to the fortifications of NY Harbor. It was decommissioned as a military installation in 1974. Discover other NYC's war sites on MF: En savoir plus .
Imagine a playground that parents actually like: “If you create a park-like environment and people feel really free, adults hang out and participate like children do.” -Adriaan Geuze, West8 architect En savoir plus .
Claudette brings Southern France to Greenwich Village. Order the pieds paquets, it comes on a copper platter of tripe and pork sloshing dangerously in a garlicky rust-colored broth. En savoir plus .