This haute Mexican eatery is harder to get into than Harvard, having built a rep around fancy tequilas and ceviche. Can't snag abooth? The no-frills, street-level taqueria can sate your wounded ego.
Pisticci was the first restaurant in NYC to go green! Support their efforts during Shop Your Values Week, take the pledge & get a free glass of organic wine with dinner. Read more.
Headed to see a show at nearby Webster Hall, Mercury Lounge, or Irving Plaza? Hit up this place for crazy good ramen and out of this world pork buns.
250 teas available for tasting - including Lapsang Souchong, which we think smells like Johnny Walker - on a bar made of reclaimed barn wood, & a small cafe serving snacks & custom "tea" cheeses. Read more.
West End Ave is one of the best places to stroll in the City! Quiet, pretty, and all around utopian.
Built in the 30s, this was an active railway until 1980. "Friends of the High Line" formed in 1999 with the idea of turning it into an elevated park similar to the Promenade Plantée in Paris.
Winner of Best Place To Take A Vigorous Walk in the Village Voice 2011 Best Of issue! Start at West 125th and head south through 109th for best walk.
Winner of Best Picnic Spot in the Village Voice 2011 Best Of issue! There's a Whole Foods nearby at Lincoln Center for all your munchie needs.
If you're lucky you might catch a glimpse of the baby raccoons or the giant snapping turtle!
NYC’s best collective backyard boasts prime people-watching spots such as the Long Meadow and Nethermead The woodland expanse of the Ravine is a towering forest within bustling Brooklyn. Read more.
The best place to find your inner Zen boasts relaxed, peaceful grounds. Claim a spot near the serene Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, surrounded by Japanese myrtle and cypress trees, and bliss out. Read more.
Don't overshoot DUMBO, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. Take the 1st stairs to street level, bringing you to Washington St, at the corner of Prospect St. - Green Guide Editor
If you're lucky and he's there when you are, you'll be able to listen to a guy in the middle of the park playing a grand piano that he wheeled in to busk with!
Union Square is home to four historical monuments: Mohandas Gandhi, the Marquis de Lafayette, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Can you find all of them?
The artistic spirit of the East Village of the 1980s was one I dream about, & live through movies like “Downtown 81”, “Slaves of New York” & modern movies such as “Basquiat” & “I Shot Andy Warhol.” Read more.
This weekend the Williamsburg flea turns into an entirely grub-oriented market called Smorgasburg, with over a hundred vendors trying to feed you stuff like fresh local tempeh and heirloom beans. Read more.
If you aren't one of those lazy types, the walk across the Williamsburg Bridge is enjoyable and for the subway fans, it provides some good subway train watching as you walk across!
Supposedly the largest Cathedral in the world, it's one of my favorite places. Go to the Halloween Extravaganza: silent b&w movie, eery organ, procession of ghouls--amazing.
Winter time + midweek + Backroom + fireplace = one of the better spots on a cold night in Lower East Side (backup plan: fireplace @ The Delancey). Just watch out for the dbags!
