Before you head to The Office NYC, stop at MAD - it is a beautiful museum with ever-changing exhibitions.

The NY Botanical Garden is worth of a visit, so beautiful!

The reputation of Mission Chinese Food is for being cool, weird, and extremely eccentric, which tends to mean that you either love it or hate it (an assessment that is at least somewhat correlated to your personal tolerance for spice).

I feel like I've watched this plant shop grow up because they've over doubled in size since I first started going! Speaks to the quality of the store and ownership. They have an excellent selection of healthy plants for a great value. This is my go to for green.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection.