Great place to get your Winter Activity going!

Cute little French Café with beautiful croissants. Thanks for the reco, Kim!

Their coffee—all brewed from carefully sourced Nicaraguan beans—is truly delicious.

This Bookstore has an amazing photography section. I go here to get inspired. You can spend hours in here looking at all kinds of great photography books.

An awesome, and sometimes free, ferry that links Manhattan at the Financial District to Ikea in Brooklyn via Red Hook. Very great views of the city and if you end up having to pay it's redeemable for a monetary discount towards an Ikea purchase. I think of it as a treat and an investment.