Lunch there before a visit at the MET with a walk in Central Park

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

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).

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.

This simple Manhattan salt house is shaped like a monumental grain of salt. The Shed is an effort by the city to make even their most utilitarian architecture into unique pieces of art.