Offering 20% off on current “indie bestsellers” (and 10% off picks from their well-read staff), you can still get a good deal while supporting one of the city’s last independent bookstores. They also carry an impressive selection of magazines and literary journals that you can flip through in their café. McNally’s event calendar is packed with appearances and readings by authors like Zadie Smith and Chris Kraus, but they're perhaps best known for their in-store printing press and self-publishing services.

This little French-Morroccan restaurant is a perfect place for meeting artist friends and, of course, great escargot.

Be warned: you’ll want to buy everything in this beautiful, minimalist store.

SITUATIONS is a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan that exhibits artists from the United States and abroad.

High line at sunset - Obvious choice but still magic.the chaos mixture of vegetation art and perambulation and good excuse to see the shows in Chelsea, the light there end of day in autumn is transportive.