Saturday, December 26, 2009

TRAVEL ONE: NEW YORK CITY


NEW YORK CITY
Lower Manhattan
Gansevoort Market (9th betw G. and 14th; meatpacking district)
Three Lives and Co (154 W 10th; small bookstore)
Film Forum (209 W Houston; movies)
Dieu Donne Papermill (433 Broome; paper-making by hand/tours)
St Mark’s Bookstore (31 3rd Ave)
Blue 9 (burgers; 92 Third Ave)
Museum of the Chinese in the Americas
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Wall Street Burger
Peasant (Little Italy)
The Players (plays at 16 Gramercy)
Katz's Deli (Lower East Side; oldest deli in US)
Peanut Butter and Co. (Greenwich Village)
The Chocolate Bar (Greenwich Village)
Lombardi's (Little Italy; 1st pizzeria in US)
Ray's Pizza (Prince Street; 1st and best)

Midtown Manhattan
Ruby et Violette (Hell’s Kitchen (orange choc. chip cookies+)
B Frites (Bway near 52nd)
Le Frite Kot’s (148 W 4th St and 6th Ave; mussels and fries)
Time Cafe West (87 7th Ave at Barrow St; pizza and rooftop dining)
The Water Club (500 E 30th St; lobsters et al)
Patsy’s (56th St)
John’s Pizza (Bway betw 44th and 45th)
Vincent’s- 119 Mott St (Italian, since 1900s)
Old Homestead Steak House (56 Ninth Ave at 15th; oldest in country; 20 oz)
Gallagher’s Steak House (228 W 52nd)
The Oyster Bar (Grand Central; 15 varieties)
Doughnut Plant (379 Grand St)
Frick Collection (E 70th St at 5th Ave)
Gotham Book Mart (41 W 47th; NY authors)
Madison Ave Bookstore (833 Madison Ave)
Papyrus Booksellers (Bway and 114th; many secondhand books)
DB Bistro Moderne (burgers; 55 W 44th)
Shake Shack (burgers; Madison Sq Pk)
United Nations Dining Room (East River view, international menu)
Payard Patisserie and Bistro (flourless chocolate walnut cookie)
Downtown Boathouse (free rentals)
Central Park (fall foliage, especially elms--Central Park West at 72nd St)
Pod Hotel (small rooms but cheap for NY, shared bathroom)
Vanderbuilt YMCA (small but cheap, shared bathroom)
Glove Museum (those worn by ladies)
Joe Franklin’s Office (eclectic, pop culture)
Maidenform Museum (history of brassieres)
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (one of world's largest collections)
Peter Lugar’s (steak)
Stage Deli (large sandwiches, Star List--names of sandwiches voted on and off once a year)3 Hotel Grace (swim up to bar in pool or just watch swimmers)

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P.J. Clarke's (Timothy Hutton co-owner)
Corner Bistro (burger)Cafeteria (24/7)
Jimmy’s Ale House (calamari)
Dylan’s (candy store)
Economy Candy
Jeff’s Sodas (sodas and egg creams in glass bottles)
Blue Smoke (bologna sandwich)
Little Pie Co (5 locations; Mississippi mud)
Stage Deli
Milkshake Company
NYC Fire Museum
NYC Police Academy Museum
Nicholas Roerich Museum
American Numismatic Society
Museum of the City of NYUptown Manhattan
Tom’s Restaurant (Bway and 112th; exterior of diner from Seinfeld)
Fireman’s Memorial (Riverside Pk at 100th)
Joan of Arc Statue (Riverside Pk at 93rd)
Eleanor Roosevelt Statue (72nd)
Riverside Church (120th-122nd St; visit tower for view; music on Sundays, 10:45)
Grant’s Tomb (Riverside Dr/122nd St)
Old Merchant’s House
Abigal Adams Smith Museum
Gracie Mansion
Hamilton Grange
Morris-Jumel Mansion
Dyckman House
Labryinth Bookstore (536 W 112th; many scholarly tomes)
Central Pk (north)-
The Ramble and Indian Cave; Huddlestone Arch; the Loch (a brook); the blockhouse; Charles’ Southern Style Kitchen (fried chicken, all you can eat buffet)
Stuyvesant Cove Park
CloistersChocolate Bar (salted-pretzel dark choc retro bar)
Dylan’s Candy BarFauchon of Paris (choc mini-purse)
Kee’s Chocolates
La Maison du Chocolat
MarieBelle Fine Treats and Chocolates
Martine’s Chocolates (5-choc oyster)
Payard Patisserie and Bistro (Upside-Down bittersweet dark chocolate souffle)
Pierre Marcolini Chocolatier (praline)
RichArt Design and Chocolates
Teuscher Chocolates of Switzerland
Jacques Torres Chocolates (eat and watch made)
The City Bakery (hot chocolate with homemade marshmallow)
Max Brenner, Chocolate by the Bald Man
Vosges Haut-Chocolat

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Dwayne Park (pumpkin desserts)
Brooklyn Grimaldi’s (19 Old Fulton St; pizza)
The Bridge Cafe (279 Water St)
Peter Luger’s Steak House (Williamsburg; reservations)
Pieter Claessen Wyckoff House
Gowanus Canal
Christy’s Jamaican Patties (coconut)
DiFara (baby-artichoke pie)
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (300 species of birds)
Harbor Defense Museum
NY Transit Museum
Coney Island Museum (funhouse mirrors, Steeple-chase horse, sideshows)
Green-Wood Cemetery (Tweed, Tiffany, Pfizer, Currier and Ives)
The Chip Shop (fried everything: fish and chips, boiled eggs, mac n' cheese, pizza, pudding, candy bars, donuts, cookies, cupcakes, Twinkie; will deep fry nearly anything for customers)
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Richard Upjohn
Lola Montez

Queens
Bowne House
Kingsland House
Queens County Farm Museum
Georgia Diner (Elmhurst)
Steinway and Sons (factory tour, limited times, reservations)

Bronx
Wave Hill
Edgar Allen Poe Cottage
Valentine-Varian House
Bartow-Pell Mansion
Bronx Zoo
Bronx Botanical Garden and Forest (tulip trees, 300 yo trees)
Van Cortland Park (hiking trails)
Staten Island
Alice Austen House