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!

Corner bodega with the best chopped cheese. It will blow your mind.

The operators of the Peter Pan bakery make the best donuts I've ever tasted. This place is charming to its core. Decor and presentation: circa 1971 & virtually unchanged since.

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

Sculpture by Tom Otterness at the 8th Avenue subway station at 14th street