The beauty of the light on the water, with a full view of the changing skyline, always awe inspiring.

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

I'm a huge Japanophile: if there's one other place I'd like to live, it's Tokyo. I must have been there seven or eight times, most recently just after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Anyway, EN is a gem on Hudson Street, serving real Japanese cuisine. It turns out that EN is a chain in Japan; there are a lot of branches making lovely bosky food in cosy neighbourhood locations. But their New York incarnation is grand in scale and ambition, with solid, warm interiors (not unlike if the Whitney were a Japanese restaurant, oddly) - a remarkable hybrid of this city, and the other one that I'd love to live in.

The perfect pizza in my books. Felt like a sweet spot between New York style pizzas and the classic Neapolitan 

A good flat white is hard to find but this is one place in NYC that has coffee that tastes like it does back in New Zealand.