The best views on Brooklyn and Manhattan. Forget the sweaty and expensive tourist buses, the ferry is just as much as a subway ride and breathtakingly beautiful. 

Apropos mural on an iconic street

Interference Archive is a volunteer-run library, gallery, and archive of historical materials related to social and political activism and movements.

Rising up 130 feet above sea level, this new park occupies some of the highest ground in New York City and offers spectacular panoramic views of the Empire State Building to the northwest, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and New York Harbor to the west, and Jamaica Bay to the south.

Fun shopping for very well-curated vintage. It feels like a series of art galleries that sell clothing and housewares.