With spring just around the corner add your recommendations to the list (with a link if you have one).

From past threads:

Museums/Exhibitions/Things to Do

9/11 Memorial

American Museum of Natural History

Beretta Gallery

BODIES... The Exhibition

Broadway TKTS Discount Booths

Broadway Plays

Bronx Zoo

Brooklyn Botanical Gardens

Central Park

Ellis Island

Empire State Building

Hayden Planetarium

Jones Beach State Park

IMAX - Mysteries of the Great Lakes

International Center of Photography Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art Arms & Armor Collection

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Museum of the City of New York

New York City Fire Museum

New York City Police Museum

New York Mets Baseball

New York Yankees Baseball

NY Botanical Garden (Bronx)

South Street Seaport

South Street Seaport Museum

Statue of Liberty

The Jewish Museum

Top of The Rock

USS INTREPID Sea, Air & Space Museum




Restaurants

69 Bayard Chinese

Carmine's

Carnegie Deli

Churrascaria Plataforma

Da Nico

Dim Sum go go

Forlini's Restaurant

Il Giglio

Il Mulino

John's Pizzeria

Katz's Delicatessen

L&B Spumoni Gardens Pizza

La Bella Ferrara Pasticceria

Lederhosen German Wurst & Bierhaus

Lombardi's Pizza

Peter Luger Steak House

McSorley's Old Ale House

Nick's Pizza in Forest Hills

New Wonton Garden

Patsy's Pizzeria

Sambuca

Shanghai Cafe

Totonno’s Pizza

Vincent's

White Horse Tavern

Wo Hop Chinese

Zaitzeff Burgers

All Museums List:

Alice Austen House Museum American Craft Museum American Folk Art Museum American Museum of Natural History American Museum of the Moving Image American Numismatic Society Americas Society Artists Space Asia Society and Museum Bronx Museum of the Arts The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens The Brooklyn Children's Museum The Brooklyn Museum of Art Carnegie Hall/Rose Museum Central Park Zoo/Wildlife Gallery The Children's Museum of the Arts Children's Museum of Manhattan The Cloisters Cooper-Hewitt Dahesh Museum Dia Center for the Arts The Drawing Center Ellis Island Museum Empire State Building Lobby Gallery Museum at FIT Forbes Magazine Galleries The Frick Collection Grey Art Gallery Goethe House Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum SoHo Rose Center The Hispanic Society of America International Center of Photography Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Jewish Museum LaGuardia and Wagner Archives Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Madame Tussaud's New York Merchant's House Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art The Morgan Library Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden Municipal Art Society El Museo Del Barrio Museum at Eldridge Street Museum for African Art Museum of American Financial History Museum of Chinese in the Americas Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum of Modern Art Museum of the City of New York Museum of the Moving Image Museum of Television and Radio National Academy Museum National Design Museum National Museum of the American Indian New Jersey Children's Museum New Museum of Contemporary Art New York Botanical Garden New York City Fire Museum New York City Police Museum New York Hall of Science New York Historical Society New York Public Library New York Transit Museum Nicholas Roerich Museum PS1 Contemporary Art Center Pierpont Morgan Library Queens Historical Society Queens Museum of Art Rose Center for Earth and Space Schomburg Center Seaman's Church Institute Snug Harbor Cultural Center Sony Wonder Technology Lab South Street Seaport Museum Staten Island Institute Studio Museum in Harlem Taipei Gallery Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Ukrainian Museum Wave Hill Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum/Philip Morris

NYC Zoos, Aquariums and Gardens

• Central Park Zoo and Tisch Children's Zoo (212) 861-6030
• Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Park (718) 367-1010
• Prospect Park Wildlife Center (718) 399-7339
• Queens Wildlife Center (718) 271-1500
• New York Aquarium AKA the Brooklyn Aquarium (718) 265-FISH (3474)
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden (718) 623-7200
• The New York Botanical Garden (718) 817-8700

NYC Self Protection FAQ:

Central Park

Ellis Island

This should be made into a sticky at the top for all of the out of towners.

Added to list and a bump.

Brooklyn Botanical Gardens

NY Botanical Garden (Bronx)

Museum of the City of New York

International Center of Photography Museum

The Jewish Museum

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Added to list. Where are the rest of you mopes with recommendations?

Broadway Plays

New York Mets Baseball

New York Yankees Baseball

Jones Beach State Park

Added to list. Where are the rest of you mopes with recommendations?

Rkbar - here goes

Everyone loves NY pizza but where is/are the best places. It's all about the brick pizza oven and most NY'ers are going to say one or all of the following...

Grimaldi's in Brooklyn- Excellent but out in brooklyn and always a long line. Not too much else going on on the menu either.

Patsy's- Formerly Grimaldi's or the other way around. Very good also, located in the Village on 12th Street and University Place. Nice restaurant especially in the summer with the big windows open. Excellent Pizza!

Lombardi's- The ONLY place worth eating at in Little Italy. I had the luck of eating there when Italy won the World Cup a few years ago and it was quite a scene. Pizza's awesome and gotta love a place that includes extra garlic on the toppings list.

Joe's on Bleecker- The famous Bleecker street in the village, a mob scene on the weekends, especially at night. Pizza is good but not anywhere near as good as...

MOTORINO on 12th street in the east village between 1st and 2nd avenue (closer to 1st)- THIS is the best pizza I have had ANYWHERE. Get one all to your own and chow down. I have had three different pizza's from the menu but the Sopressata is to die for. Literally if I had to choose the last meal I ever ate it would be the Sopressata pie from Motorino. It's no 'scene' and the wine list is nice and doable as well. Even the brussel sprout pizza is awesome. LOVE LOVE this place.

Hope this was a help for some of you and PM me any questions you may have for a NYC food hound like me. :)

Lincoln Center
Times Square
Grand Central Station
China Town
Grant's Tomb
Fort Tryon Park (near GWB)

Best Burger in NYC, hands down.

http://www.zaitzeffnyc.com/

You forgot Totonno's Pizza in Coney Island....

And L&B Spumoni Gardens on Avenue U in Brooklyn.

And Nick's Pizza in Forest Hills.

Totonno's burned down and hasn't been rebuilt.

Other locations http://www.totonnos.com/Index-2.html

1544 Second Avenue
(Between 80th and 81st Street)

462 2nd Ave.
(Between 26th & 27th Street)

$5 off coupon

So now I gotta' leave Brooklyn to get my Fix? I'm no fire inspector but that fire seemed "kind of suspicious"

Supposedly it was the coal fired oven that burns 24/7 that started the fire. They never reopened?

Coney Island Staple Vows To Rebuild After Fire

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/95604/coney-island-staple-vows-to-rebuild-after-fire/?ap=1&Flash

ETA: Looks like they opened one in Yonkers too. Website says four locations. http://www.totonnos.com/Aboutus.html

http://www.totonnos.com/Yonkers.html

How can this landmark not be on the list?

Flashdancers New York Gentlemen's Club

Are there any good Military Surplus stores anyone is aware of?
I have to travel to NYC this spring...

Veselka, a great Ukranian diner in the East Village open 24/7

http://www.veselka.com/

The Corner Bistro for late night burgers and beers

http://www.cornerbistrony.com/

The Astoria Beer Garden

http://www.bohemianhall.com/en/Index.php

Great idea guys!

I am headed to NYC last weekend in April. What is nice place? We are going to a show on Saturday and would like a nicer place for dinner that night.

Thanks.

All are excellent choices sir, I just couldnt see an out of towner cruising around bensonhurst looking for L&B's!! Love the squares!! Sauce on bottom, cheese on top!

Hey, great idea! Thanks for this thread! We'll be in NYC 31 July - 6 August, staying near the NYSE. The COL will be pretty tied up almost all the time from morning til 8 pm, except that he gets off at 6pm on Wednesday and we're going to see Rock of Ages Thursday night. Except for my cousin coming in to spend the day with me Thursday, I will pretty much be on my own the entire week.

This is not my first trip by any means, so I don't plan to go back to places like the Empire State Bldg, Statue of Liberty, etc. I DO plan to go to the MMA - I always do - and do a little shopping on Canal St. I will spend some time checking out those links in the OP, but would also appreciate any other suggestions that might be interesting and safe for someone flying solo.

Oh, last year I had downloaded a NYC transit app on my Droid that I found very useful. I have since deleted it, and now I can't seem to find one that looks familiar. Can anyone recommend a good subway app for a Droid?

Thanks!

ETA: Some of my interests are history, architecture, military stuff, as well as girly things like fashion design. I do NOT like much modern art.

Do a quick search for an app called "on the go"

It updates directly from the NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority site with delays and schedule changes, as well as having full maps searchable by station, line, and connection

Thanks! I'll look for it!

American Museum of Natural History iPhone Apps:

http://www.amnh.org/apps/

Those look great! Wish they were Droid-compatible. However, the COL is considering picking up an iPad - if he does, I'll download them!