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A Lovely Day in…

Four full days, morning coffee to nightcap, each in one neighborhood and walkable end to end — the West Village, Williamsburg, the Lower East Side and Chinatown, and the Upper West Side with Central Park.

7 stops · about 3.8 km on foot

A Lovely Day in the West Village

Steamed eggs at a marble counter, a walled churchyard garden, the city's most famous green salad, a century-old chocolate shop, and sunset from a park built on concrete tulips over the Hudson — then schnitzel and a deco nightcap, all inside a two-mile loop.

  1. 1 Buvette
  2. 2 The Gardens at St. Luke in the Fields
  3. 3 Via Carota
  4. 4 Li-Lac Chocolates
  5. 5 Little Island
  6. 6 Wallsé
  7. 7 Employees Only
Leather sofas, palms and a living green wall under the skylight at Devoción on Grand Street

7 stops · about 4.1 km on foot

A Lovely Day in Williamsburg

Colombian coffee under a skylight, a morning walk along a sugar refinery's riverfront, malted pancakes, a warehouse of makers and vintage, the whole Manhattan skyline from twenty-two floors up, then Missy Robbins's pasta and oysters in a vine-draped garden.

  1. 1 Devoción
  2. 2 Domino Park
  3. 3 Sunday in Brooklyn
  4. 4 Artists & Fleas Williamsburg
  5. 5 Westlight (The William Vale)
  6. 6 Lilia
  7. 7 Maison Premiere

7 stops · about 5.5 km on foot

A Lovely Day on the Lower East Side & Chinatown

A 1914 appetizing counter, tai chi and Cantonese opera in Five Points' old park, the city's oldest dim sum parlor, a donated library on cobbled Crosby Street, golden hour on a Canal Street wine-bar plaza, then provincial Indian cooking in Essex Market and a knock on an unmarked Eldridge Street door.

  1. 1 Russ & Daughters
  2. 2 Columbus Park
  3. 3 Nom Wah Tea Parlor
  4. 4 Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
  5. 5 Le Dive
  6. 6 Dhamaka
  7. 7 Attaboy

7 stops · about 7.9 km on foot

A Lovely Day on the Upper West Side & Central Park

Eggs scrambled with nova at the Sturgeon King, the best mid-park lookout, a Lincoln Center bistro lunch, Zabar's housewares mezzanine, Bow Bridge with the San Remo in the Lake at sunset, oysters on Columbus Avenue, and a nightcap under the Madeline murals.

  1. 1 Barney Greengrass
  2. 2 Belvedere Castle
  3. 3 Café Luxembourg
  4. 4 Zabar's
  5. 5 Bow Bridge
  6. 6 The Mermaid Inn
  7. 7 Bemelmans Bar (The Carlyle)