7 Avenue Express
The 2 train, stop by stop
49 stops from Wakefield-241 St to Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College. At 29 of them there's somewhere on LovelyNYC within about six minutes' walk; here they are, nearest first.
Wakefield-241 St
Nereid Av
233 St
225 St
219 St
Gun Hill Rd
Burke Av
Allerton Av
Pelham Pkwy
E 180 St
West Farms Sq-E Tremont Av
174 St
Freeman St
Simpson St
Intervale Av
Prospect AvLongwood
Eat & drink · 7 min · $Margarita's RestaurantCrab alcapurrias and seafood pastelillos from a family that started with a truck on East 156th Street.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Seis VecinosBaleadas, pupusas and tableside guacamole in a sunny corner room on Prospect Avenue — Central American comfort cooking with a Honduran heart.Jackson AvLongwood
Eat & drink · 3 min · $Lechonera La PirañaA weekend-only trailer where lechón is carved by machete onto paper plates — South Bronx Puerto Rican roadside cooking at its best.Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Seis VecinosBaleadas, pupusas and tableside guacamole in a sunny corner room on Prospect Avenue — Central American comfort cooking with a Honduran heart.Eat & drink · 7 min · $Margarita's RestaurantCrab alcapurrias and seafood pastelillos from a family that started with a truck on East 156th Street.3 Av-149 St
149 St-Hostos
135 St
Experience · 1 min · FreeExhibitions at the Schomburg CenterFree exhibitions at Harlem's world-leading research library of Black history and culture.
Experience · 4 min · $$Bill's Place on Swing StreetA Harlem brownstone speakeasy room where saxophonist Bill Saxton plays two sets every weekend.
Experience · 4 min · FreeSunday Worship at Abyssinian Baptist ChurchJoin a historic Harlem congregation, founded in 1808, for Sunday worship as a guest rather than a spectator.125 StHarlem
Eat & drink · 1 min · $$$Red Rooster HarlemThe Harlem restaurant and live music venue co-founded by Marcus Samuelsson and Andrew Chapman — African American, Southern and Caribbean cooking on Lenox Avenue.
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$Sylvia'sThe Woods family's soul-food landmark on Lenox Avenue, feeding Harlem since 1962.
Experience · 7 min · $$Movement HarlemBouldering on 125th Street, across from the Apollo — no ropes, no experience needed.72 StUpper West Side
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$Shanghai Dumplings FusionSoup dumplings in bamboo steamers on West 72nd Street, a short walk from the 1, 2 and 3 trains.
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$$Café LuxembourgThe Lincoln Center bistro — zinc bar, steak frites, and forty years of pre-theater glow.
Eat & drink · 3 min · $Levain Bakery (W 74th St)The original home of the six-ounce cookie that launched a thousand imitations.Times Sq-42 StMidtown
Eat & drink · 4 min · $Los Tacos No. 1Tijuana-style tacos a block from Broadway, with trompo-cooked adobada and a line that moves fast.Eat & drink · 4 min · $BurgermaniaA certified-halal smash-burger shop a block from Times Square, built on grass-fed beef and crispy-edged patties.Eat & drink · 4 min · $$BXL CaféMoules-frites and Trappist ales at a Brussels bar a block from Times Square.Eat & drink · 5 min · $Wafels & Dinges (Bryant Park)A liège waffle with spekuloos spread, from the truck that brought Belgian waffles to New York — now a Bryant Park kiosk.10 more near Times Sq-42 St
Experience · 6 min · FreeSummer Movie Nights in Bryant ParkA free film on a giant screen, a blanket on the lawn and the Midtown towers lighting up on summer Mondays.Eat & drink · 6 min · $Royal Grill Halal FoodA Vendy Cup–winning Bangladeshi cart off Times Square — chicken tikka masala and biryani from a family spice blend.
Experience · 6 min · FreeThe Rink at Bryant ParkFree skating under the Midtown towers with your own skates — opens October 28.
Place · 7 min · FreeBryant ParkA formal French garden on the roof of the library's stacks, furnished with ten thousand movable chairs.Eat & drink · 7 min · $MargonA Times Square Cuban lunch counter since the 1970s — pressed Cubanos, palomilla steak and café cubano.
Experience · 7 min · $$$Same-Day Theater from the TKTS BoothHalf-price same-day tickets sold under the red steps in Times Square, plus a view straight down Broadway.
Experience · 7 min · $$$Big Bands and Cabaret at BirdlandThe jazz club named for Charlie Parker, with a supper-club main room and a cabaret stage downstairs.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$$Gabriel KreutherGabriel Kreuther's Alsatian dining room on Bryant Park — crystal storks overhead and a sturgeon-and-sauerkraut tart on the plate.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$Refinery RooftopA year-round Garment District rooftop with the Empire State Building filling the frame.
Experience · 8 min · FreeA Free Tour of the Rose Main Reading RoomDocents lead free tours of the Fifth Avenue library, ending beneath the painted ceilings of the Rose Main Reading Room.34 St-Penn StationMidtown
Eat & drink · 4 min · $Liberty Bagels (Midtown)Glossy, chewy bagels near Penn Station — the jalapeño everything with chipotle cream cheese.Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$MarketteCaribbean flavor, European polish: a Saga alum's Chelsea dining room with a hidden cocktail lounge below.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$$Keens SteakhouseAn 1885 chophouse with a ceiling of clay pipes and the most famous mutton chop in America.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Cho Dang GolKoreatown's house-made-tofu kitchen since 1997 — spicy kimchi sundubu, bossam and a cod roe omelet.4 more near 34 St-Penn Station
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$$Elcielo New YorkJuan Manuel Barrientos's Colombian tasting menu in NoMad, with J Balvin as partner and Midtown views from the fourth floor.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$$NōksuA Michelin-starred Korean tasting counter hidden behind a black door inside the Herald Square subway station.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$New WonjoCharcoal-grilled galbi on 32nd Street since 1993 — old Koreatown, open very late.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$$Joo OkA twelve-course Korean tasting menu in a hanok-style room sixteen floors above Koreatown.14 StWest Village
Place · 1 min · FreeLi-Lac ChocolatesManhattan's oldest chocolate house — a century of fudge, butter crunch, and chocolate brownstones.
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$$$KosakaA twelve-seat Edomae counter in Greenwich Village, quiet and exact.
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$Chama MamaClay-oven khachapuri, khinkali and amber wine — modern Georgian on West 14th Street.
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$$GracielaDon Julio's Buenos Aires parrilla team in the West Village — quebracho-fired steaks, empanadas and fainá.12 more near 14 St
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$$$Don AngieA corner supper club where Italian-American classics come back sharper — book well ahead.
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$La NacionalPaella and gambas in the basement of the 1868 Spanish Benevolent Society on 14th Street.
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$$SemmaRural Tamil cooking at full heat — the most celebrated Indian kitchen in New York.
Experience · 4 min · $$$A Night at the Village VanguardThe most storied basement in jazz, in continuous operation since 1935.Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$$4 Charles Prime RibTen tables, jeweled sconces and red booths in a sunken West Village room — prime rib, the burger, and a very cold martini.Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$$Le B.Angie Mar's velvet-lined French supper club, with a famous burger served only at the bar.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$KubehKurdish and Iraqi Jewish dumpling soups, mix-and-match, on Sixth Avenue.
Experience · 6 min · $$Piano and Bass at MezzrowThe hushed piano room down the block from Smalls, made for duos, trios and listening up close.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$The LavauxFondue, raclette and chasselas from Lake Geneva's vineyards, in a candlelit West Village room.
Experience · 7 min · $$Late Sets at SmallsA Village basement where working New York jazz musicians play from early evening into the small hours.
Place · 8 min · FreeGay StreetOne block, one perfect bend, two centuries of rowhouses leaning into the turn.
Experience · 8 min · $Piano Bar Nights at The DuplexA piano bar on Sheridan Square since 1989, with singing staff downstairs and cabaret and drag upstairs.Chambers StTribeca
Place · 2 min · FreeDuane ParkThe first land New York ever bought for a park — five dollars, 1797, still perfect.
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$$The OdeonThe neon-lit brasserie that invented downtown — still serving martinis under its own legend.
Eat & drink · 4 min · $$$$HusoBuddha Lo's caviar-house tasting menu, hidden behind Marky's in Tribeca.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$$AteraA two-star tasting counter in Tribeca, in Ronny Emborg's final season.8 more near Chambers St
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$$JungsikYim Jung Sik's three-star Korean tasting menu on a quiet Tribeca corner.
Experience · 7 min · FreeA Free Tour Inside New York City HallReserve a free tour of the 1812 landmark: its rotunda, the Council Chamber and the portrait-lined Governor's Room.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Two Hands TribecaSydney café culture on Church Street — flat whites, toasted banana bread and avocado toast.
Place · 7 min · FreeStaple Street SkybridgeA private sky-bridge over a one-lane street — downtown's favorite wrong turn.
Place · 7 min · FreeHarrison Street RowhousesEighteenth-century townhouses parked beneath 1970s towers — survival as architecture.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$Bubby'sTribeca's living room since 1990 — sourdough pancakes, seasonal pie, and no pretense at all.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$Locanda VerdeThe Greenwich Hotel's corner taverna — ricotta crostini, big windows, and Tribeca at its calmest.Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$Le GratinDaniel Boulud's Lyon-style bistro in the Beekman hotel — mirrors, cigar-brown banquettes and pike quenelle.Park PlaceFinancial District
Experience · 4 min · FreeA Free Tour Inside New York City HallReserve a free tour of the 1812 landmark: its rotunda, the Council Chamber and the portrait-lined Governor's Room.Eat & drink · 4 min · $$$Le GratinDaniel Boulud's Lyon-style bistro in the Beekman hotel — mirrors, cigar-brown banquettes and pike quenelle.Place · 7 min · FreeDuane ParkThe first land New York ever bought for a park — five dollars, 1797, still perfect.Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$The OdeonThe neon-lit brasserie that invented downtown — still serving martinis under its own legend.Fulton StFinancial District
Eat & drink · 4 min · $$$Le GratinDaniel Boulud's Lyon-style bistro in the Beekman hotel — mirrors, cigar-brown banquettes and pike quenelle.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$Crown ShyThe Financial District's grand Art Deco dining room, with a menu that roams from kibbeh nayeh to tandoori flatbread.Experience · 6 min · FreeA Free Tour Inside New York City HallReserve a free tour of the 1812 landmark: its rotunda, the Council Chamber and the portrait-lined Governor's Room.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$$SagaA two-star tasting menu sixty-three floors above Pine Street, starting with a drink on the terrace.Wall StFinancial District
Experience · 2 min · FreeWhere Washington Took the Oath: Federal HallFree history on Wall Street, on the site where George Washington became the first president in 1789.Eat & drink · 2 min · $$$Crown ShyThe Financial District's grand Art Deco dining room, with a menu that roams from kibbeh nayeh to tandoori flatbread.Eat & drink · 2 min · $$$$SagaA two-star tasting menu sixty-three floors above Pine Street, starting with a drink on the terrace.
Eat & drink · 4 min · $$$$Delmonico'sThe steakhouse that named the steak — Delmonico ribeye, lobster Newburg and baked Alaska on Beaver Street.3 more near Wall St
Eat & drink · 5 min · $Golden Mall (Financial District)Flushing's food-court name, downtown — hand-pulled noodles, roast duck and dumplings steps from Wall Street.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$The Dead RabbitThe Irish bar that was named the world's best — a taproom downstairs and a cocktail parlor above, on Water Street.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Fraunces TavernWhere Washington said farewell to his officers in 1783 — a museum upstairs and a tavern still pouring below.Borough HallBrooklyn Heights
Experience · 4 min · $Vintage Subway Cars at the New York Transit MuseumWalk through a century of subway cars parked on the tracks of a decommissioned Brooklyn station.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$Gage & TollnerBrooklyn's 1892 chophouse reborn — mirrors, brass chandeliers, a perfect martini and baked Alaska.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $8 Bit BitesHalal smash burgers and shakes in a retro, pixel-art shop on Court Street, where 8 Bit Bites first began.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Sahadi'sThe Lebanese family grocery that has anchored Atlantic Avenue since the 1940s — James Beard's America's Classic in 2017.Hoyt StBrooklyn Heights
Eat & drink · 4 min · $$$Gage & TollnerBrooklyn's 1892 chophouse reborn — mirrors, brass chandeliers, a perfect martini and baked Alaska.Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Stack'd BurgerA Downtown Brooklyn halal burger shop where fresh patties are cooked to order and the wings get a 16-hour marinade.Experience · 7 min · $Vintage Subway Cars at the New York Transit MuseumWalk through a century of subway cars parked on the tracks of a decommissioned Brooklyn station.Nevins StFort Greene
Eat & drink · 1 min · $$Stack'd BurgerA Downtown Brooklyn halal burger shop where fresh patties are cooked to order and the wings get a 16-hour marinade.
Experience · 5 min · $$A Night at BAMBrooklyn's multi-arts center, home of the Next Wave festival, with the Howard Gilman Opera House, the Harvey Theater and BAM Rose Cinemas.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$Strange DelightCornmeal-crusted fried shrimp on milk bread and crab remoulade under globe lights, a few steps from the Fulton Street G.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Café PauletteSteak frites, oysters and natural wine on a heated patio facing Fort Greene Park.Atlantic Av-Barclays CtrFort Greene
Eat & drink · 3 min · $No Pork Halal KitchenFully halal Chinese-American takeout, a few blocks from Barclays Center on Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue.Experience · 4 min · $$A Night at BAMBrooklyn's multi-arts center, home of the Next Wave festival, with the Howard Gilman Opera House, the Harvey Theater and BAM Rose Cinemas.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$Black Forest BrooklynBoots of lager, pretzels and properly good schnitzel a short walk from BAM.Eat & drink · 6 min · $$Strange DelightCornmeal-crusted fried shrimp on milk bread and crab remoulade under globe lights, a few steps from the Fulton Street G.4 more near Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$FradeiA tiny subterranean room for seasonal French plates, natural wine and a solo steak tartare.Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$$IkigaiA twelve-seat, not-for-profit kaiseki counter in a Fort Greene townhouse, with Polish accents.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$TheodoraDry-aged fish, za'atar kubaneh and a feta-and-honey tequila cocktail from the Miss Ada team.Eat & drink · 8 min · $$OleaA corner Mediterranean taverna on Lafayette Avenue — Fort Greene's long-running weekend habit.Bergen StFort Greene
Experience · 6 min · $$$A TryDay Night on the Pottery Wheel at BKLYN CLAYTwo hours at the wheel on a Friday or Saturday night, with an instructor, a glass of wine and wet clay up to the elbows.Eat & drink · 7 min · $No Pork Halal KitchenFully halal Chinese-American takeout, a few blocks from Barclays Center on Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue.Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn MuseumCrown Heights
Experience · 5 min · $$Lightscape at Brooklyn Botanic GardenAn after-dark trail of light installations and music through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, new for 2026.
Experience · 5 min · $Cherry Blossom Season at Brooklyn Botanic GardenDouble rows of Kanzan cherries in full pink bloom along the Cherry Esplanade, timed with the garden's own bloom map.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $La FlorSpicy pepperoni with ranch and a honey-drizzled white pie at a red-and-white slice shop.Franklin Av-Medgar Evers CollegeCrown Heights
Eat & drink · 1 min · $$Briscola TrattoriaDouble ravioli, an XXL oxtail cannellone and pistachio tiramisu at a candlelit Franklin Avenue trattoria.Eat & drink · 3 min · $Bagel Pub (Crown Heights)Hot, airy Franklin Avenue bagels — and the za'atar cream cheese everyone orders.
Eat & drink · 4 min · $LisbonataWarm, singed-top pastéis de nata, and nothing else, a short walk from Prospect Park.Eat & drink · 5 min · $$Chavela'sQueso fundido, chicken mole and draft margaritas in a big, lively room on Franklin Avenue.8 more near Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$Ras Plant BasedEthiopian fasting-day cooking as a whole menu — a plant-based platter on Franklin Avenue.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$BongOne of the city's only Khmer kitchens — tamarind clams, crispy whole fish and Mama Kim's lobster in a lime-green Crown Heights room.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $Silver RiceWarm sushi rice and spicy salmon in a coffee cup, from a walk-up window on Park Place.Eat & drink · 7 min · $La FlorSpicy pepperoni with ranch and a honey-drizzled white pie at a red-and-white slice shop.Experience · 7 min · $$Lightscape at Brooklyn Botanic GardenAn after-dark trail of light installations and music through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, new for 2026.Experience · 7 min · $Cherry Blossom Season at Brooklyn Botanic GardenDouble rows of Kanzan cherries in full pink bloom along the Cherry Esplanade, timed with the garden's own bloom map.Eat & drink · 8 min · $$Café Rue DixBeef mafe, beignets and Senegalese tea in a café full of masks and Afrobeat.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$Whoopsie DaisyFunky wine, tiny martinis and conservas in a big Crown Heights backyard.President St-Medgar Evers CollegeCrown Heights
Eat & drink · 4 min · $$Whoopsie DaisyFunky wine, tiny martinis and conservas in a big Crown Heights backyard.Eat & drink · 5 min · $Joenise RestaurantFried turkey with black rice, lalo and cow foot soup at an easygoing Haitian counter on Rogers Avenue.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $Colina CuervoChorizo breakfast tacos, horchata lattes and dulce de leche pancakes at an Ecuadorian-run all-day café.Eat & drink · 7 min · $Trinidad Golden PlaceA Crown Heights Trinidadian bakery with a line out the door — doubles, a giant goat roti and coconut rolls.2 more near President St-Medgar Evers College
Sterling StFlatbush
Winthrop StFlatbush
Beverly Rd
Newkirk Av-Little Haiti
Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College
Stops follow a typical weekday midday 2 trip in the MTA's published timetable, so part-time branches and late-night changes aren't shown. Walking times are estimates on the street grid. Check service changes on mta.info before you ride; LovelyNYC is not affiliated with the MTA.