This is another neighborhood favorite, especially for Sunday brunch which is consistently great.

A not-for-profit community museum and civic organization located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The museum traces the history of New York City's five boroughs with its exhibitions of cultural ephemera and relics.

Getaway not far from the city. Nice beach, surreal pool. Next to Fire Island (which is also super nice).

The design and photography floor at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Union Square.

Grand Central is big and beautiful and it also periodically hosts free cultural events - poets at typewriters custom-composing poems on demand - or Alvin Ailey dancers performing in Artist, Nick Cave's horse suits!