8 Avenue Express
The A train, stop by stop
37 stops from Inwood-207 St to Far Rockaway-Mott Av. At 22 of them there's somewhere on LovelyNYC within about six minutes' walk; here they are, nearest first.
Inwood-207 StInwood
Eat & drink · 1 min · $Buunni Coffee (Inwood)Uptown's own roaster — Ethiopian-rooted coffee in a roomy Broadway café a few blocks from Inwood Hill Park.
Experience · 4 min · $The Dyckman Farmhouse, Manhattan's Last FarmhouseA Dutch Colonial farmhouse from about 1784, the last one in Manhattan, with a $3 ticket and a free garden.
Experience · 7 min · FreeThe Last Forest in Manhattan: Inwood Hill ParkTulip trees, salt marsh and the stone that marks Manhattan's legendary sale, at the island's northern tip.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $Elsa La Reina del ChicharrónCrackling Dominican pork chicharrón and fried chicken with rice and beans, a few doors from the Dyckman Farmhouse.Dyckman StInwood
Eat & drink · 4 min · $Elsa La Reina del ChicharrónCrackling Dominican pork chicharrón and fried chicken with rice and beans, a few doors from the Dyckman Farmhouse.
Experience · 6 min · $$An Afternoon at The Met CloistersMedieval European art, chapels and herb gardens on a hilltop in Fort Tryon Park, with the Hudson below.Experience · 7 min · $The Dyckman Farmhouse, Manhattan's Last FarmhouseA Dutch Colonial farmhouse from about 1784, the last one in Manhattan, with a $3 ticket and a free garden.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $Cachapas y MasSweet-corn cachapas folded over white cheese, served deep into the night on Dyckman Street.190 St
175 StWashington Heights
Eat & drink · 4 min · $MaleconRotisserie chicken and wasakaka at Broadway and 175th — a Washington Heights institution since 1987.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$SaggioHandmade pasta and an all-Italian wine list in a warm brick room near Fort Tryon Park.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Tampopo RamenThe Heights' own ramen bar, now at 823 West 181st Street — careful shio bowls, pork buns and sake.145 StHarlem
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$Benyam Ethiopian CuisineA shared injera tray at the top of Harlem — order the mixed platter with kitfo.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Cocina ConsueloA sunny Hamilton Heights room from Cosme and EMP alums — tortilla con huevo and a masa pancake for breakfast.
Experience · 7 min · FreeAlexander Hamilton's GrangeFree ranger-led tours of Alexander Hamilton's country house, now set in St. Nicholas Park in Harlem.59 St-Columbus CircleMidtown
Eat & drink · 1 min · $$$$MasaMasa Takayama's omakase at a single slab of hinoki above Columbus Circle.
Eat & drink · 1 min · $$$$Per SeThomas Keller's nine-course dinner above Columbus Circle, with Central Park filling the windows.
Eat & drink · 1 min · $$$$Jean-GeorgesJean-Georges Vongerichten's home dining room on Central Park West, with six- and ten-course tasting menus and a page of 1997 classics.
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$$$MareaCoastal Italian on Central Park South — crudo, then the octopus-and-bone-marrow fusilli.7 more near 59 St-Columbus Circle
Experience · 2 min · $$$Dizzy's Club Above Columbus CircleJazz played in front of a wall of glass over Central Park, in Jazz at Lincoln Center's own club.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$Yakitori TottoA second-floor yakitori bar off Broadway — tsukune, chicken oysters and dozens of skewers.
Experience · 6 min · $$A Concert at Carnegie HallAn evening in the 1891 hall on 57th Street, where the upper tiers are cheaper and the sound is famous.
Experience · 6 min · $$A Guided Tour of Carnegie HallAn hour inside the city's most famous concert hall, from Stern Auditorium to the Rose Museum's artifacts.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$$Tatiana by Kwame OnwuachiKwame Onwuachi's glowing Lincoln Center room — short rib pastrami suya, goat patties and a 90s soundtrack.
Experience · 7 min · $$New York City Ballet for $30Balanchine's company in its own theater, with $30 rush tickets for anyone aged 13 to 30.
Experience · 8 min · $$$Broadway Voices at 54 BelowBroadway's own supper club, where stars, songwriters and newcomers sing a few feet from your table.42 St-Port Authority Bus TerminalMidtown
Eat & drink · 3 min · $BurgermaniaA certified-halal smash-burger shop a block from Times Square, built on grass-fed beef and crispy-edged patties.
Eat & drink · 3 min · $Los Tacos No. 1Tijuana-style tacos a block from Broadway, with trompo-cooked adobada and a line that moves fast.
Experience · 3 min · $$$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 · 5 min · $Rudy's Bar & GrillNinth Avenue's dive since 1933 — duct-taped red booths, a back patio and a free hot dog with every drink.7 more near 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$Joe AllenThe Broadway bistro since 1965 — a brick room on Restaurant Row hung with posters for flops.
Experience · 6 min · $$Sing-Along Nights at Don't Tell MamaA Restaurant Row piano bar and twin cabaret rooms where the staff sing and the theater crowd joins in.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $Amy's Bread (Hell's Kitchen)The 1992 original on Ninth Avenue — hand-made breads, pastries and layer cake in a tiny storefront.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$BXL CaféMoules-frites and Trappist ales at a Brussels bar a block from Times Square.
Experience · 8 min · $$$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.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$$MariA Korean hand-roll tasting counter with a Michelin star, on Ninth Avenue.Eat & drink · 8 min · $MargonA Times Square Cuban lunch counter since the 1970s — pressed Cubanos, palomilla steak and café cubano.34 St-Penn StationMidtown
Eat & drink · 1 min · $Liberty Bagels (Midtown)Glossy, chewy bagels near Penn Station — the jalapeño everything with chipotle cream cheese.Eat & drink · 7 min · $BurgermaniaA certified-halal smash-burger shop a block from Times Square, built on grass-fed beef and crispy-edged patties.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$Ci SiamoA Milan-hotel-handsome Italian room in Manhattan West — caramelized onion torta first, pastas second.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$$Chef's Table at Brooklyn FareA spotlit walnut counter in the back of a Hell's Kitchen grocery, now with two Michelin stars under new chefs.14 StChelsea
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$La NacionalPaella and gambas in the basement of the 1868 Spanish Benevolent Society on 14th Street.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$$KosakaA twelve-seat Edomae counter in Greenwich Village, quiet and exact.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$Bathtub GinA Prohibition-style gin bar behind a secret door in a Chelsea coffee shop.
Place · 5 min · FreePearl River Mart at Chelsea MarketThe 1971 Chinatown emporium's lantern-hung outpost on Chelsea Market's main concourse.11 more near 14 St
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$BuddakanA candlelit subterranean banquet hall beside Chelsea Market, built for entrances.Eat & drink · 6 min · $$Los MariscosBaja-style fish tacos and aguachile from the Los Tacos No. 1 team, hidden inside Chelsea Market.Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$$Don AngieA corner supper club where Italian-American classics come back sharper — book well ahead.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$Chama MamaClay-oven khachapuri, khinkali and amber wine — modern Georgian on West 14th Street.
Place · 6 min · FreeLi-Lac ChocolatesManhattan's oldest chocolate house — a century of fudge, butter crunch, and chocolate brownstones.
Place · 6 min · FreeChelsea MarketThe Oreo's birthplace, hollowed into a brick tunnel of food stalls.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $Los Tacos No. 1 (Chelsea Market)The standing-room Chelsea Market taco counter that started it all — adobada first, chairs never.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$The LavauxFondue, raclette and chasselas from Lake Geneva's vineyards, in a candlelit West Village room.Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$$Le B.Angie Mar's velvet-lined French supper club, with a famous burger served only at the bar.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$GracielaDon Julio's Buenos Aires parrilla team in the West Village — quebracho-fired steaks, empanadas and fainá.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$QanoonPalestinian home cooking in a Chelsea townhouse — musakhan, makloubeh and mahshi.W 4 St-Wash SqWest Village
Eat & drink · 1 min · $BurgerheadCharbroiled, not smashed: a flame-grilled burger counter on Sixth Avenue with beef tallow fries and hand-spun shakes.Eat & drink · 1 min · $Tacos 1986The Hollywood taco stand turned LA icon, now griddling Tijuana-style adobada on Cornelia Street in the West Village.
Place · 3 min · FreeGay StreetOne block, one perfect bend, two centuries of rowhouses leaning into the turn.
Experience · 3 min · $Midnight Movies at IFC CenterIndependent premieres, director Q&As and weekend midnight cult films in the old Waverly theater.38 more near W 4 St-Wash Sq
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$$$FREVOA sixteen-seat Michelin-starred counter hidden behind an art gallery on West 8th Street.
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$La Lanterna di VittorioFireplaces in winter, a garden room in back, and candlelit espresso on MacDougal since 1977.Eat & drink · 3 min · $$$PalmaSeasonal Italian on Cornelia Street with a garden that feels borrowed from the Mediterranean.
Experience · 4 min · $Piano Bar Nights at The DuplexA piano bar on Sheridan Square since 1989, with singing staff downstairs and cabaret and drag upstairs.
Eat & drink · 4 min · $Joe's Pizza (Carmine Street)The 1975 Village slice counter — a plain slice on a paper plate, eaten standing up.Eat & drink · 4 min · $Mamoun's FalafelNew York's oldest falafel shop, serving the Village from the same MacDougal Street storefront since 1971.
Eat & drink · 4 min · $Caffè ReggioA 1927 Village café where the espresso machine is older than almost everything around it.
Experience · 4 min · $$The Comedy CellarShort sets, close tables, and the ever-present chance of an unannounced drop-in.
Eat & drink · 4 min · $$RasaSiblings Tommy and Camie Lai cook their mother's Malaysian street-food recipes on West 8th Street.
Eat & drink · 4 min · $Skinny LouieMiami's award-winning smash burgers on Carmine Street, griddled late into the night just off Bleecker.
Experience · 4 min · $Show Tunes at Marie's CrisisA Grove Street basement where a pianist plays Broadway and the entire room sings along, no microphones.
Eat & drink · 4 min · $$$$Minetta TavernA 1937 Village tavern reborn as a chophouse — original murals, red booths, and the Black Label burger.
Eat & drink · 4 min · $$$$One if by Land, Two if by SeaThe carriage-house proposal restaurant — fireplace, piano, beef Wellington, no irony.
Experience · 5 min · $$Piano and Bass at MezzrowThe hushed piano room down the block from Smalls, made for duos, trios and listening up close.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$Via CarotaJody Williams and Rita Sodi's Grove Street trattoria, where a green salad became famous.
Experience · 5 min · $$Late Sets at SmallsA Village basement where working New York jazz musicians play from early evening into the small hours.Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$I SodiRita Sodi's Tuscan dining room on Bleecker — dark wood, proper Negronis, and a legendary lasagna.
Place · 5 min · FreeWashington Square ParkThe Village's marble-arched front room, where Fifth Avenue ends and the show begins.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$BuvetteA West Village gastrothèque where breakfast, lunch, and a late bottle of wine all belong to the same day.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $NY DosasA Sri Lankan cook's vegan dosa cart in Washington Square Park — the Vendy-winning Pondicherry dosa, eaten under the trees.Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$$4 Charles Prime RibTen tables, jeweled sconces and red booths in a sunken West Village room — prime rib, the burger, and a very cold martini.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$DanteA 1915 Village caffè reborn as a world-class Negroni bar that never lost its neighborhood manners.Eat & drink · 5 min · $Butter SmashburgersA tiny, proudly halal smashburger counter on MacDougal Street, made for late Village nights.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$Nami NoriOpen-style temaki on Carmine Street — warm rice, crackling nori, and a Bib Gourmand.
Place · 6 min · FreeGrove CourtSix brick houses around a locked garden — the Village's best view through a gate.Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$$Sushi NakazawaThe Jiro-trained omakase that earned four New York Times stars, on one of the West Village's loveliest blocks.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$CrevetteThe Dame and Lord's team's seafood room, drawing on the coasts of France, Spain and Italy.Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$$The Eighty SixA ten-table steakhouse in the old Chumley's, aging its beef beneath a century-old bar.
Place · 6 min · FreeWashington MewsA cobbled stable lane the city grew around and never got around to demolishing.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$The Little OwlGravy meatball sliders and a famous pork chop at a tiny corner restaurant in the West Village's Friends building.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$KubehKurdish and Iraqi Jewish dumpling soups, mix-and-match, on Sixth Avenue.
Place · 7 min · FreeCommerce StreetA bent, traffic-forgotten lane with a century-old playhouse tucked into the elbow.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$SemmaRural Tamil cooking at full heat — the most celebrated Indian kitchen in New York.
Experience · 7 min · $$$A Night at the Village VanguardThe most storied basement in jazz, in continuous operation since 1935.Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$Bar PittiA canary-yellow Tuscan trattoria since 1992, with a famous sidewalk patio, a chalkboard of specials and a cash-only charm.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$Quique CrudoCasa Enrique's West Village sibling — scallop aguachile negro and crab tostadas at a twenty-stool bar.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$$CarboneThe tuxedoed, tableside Italian-American production that made spicy rigatoni a household phrase.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$$Le ChêneA low-lit Carmine Street French room with a horseshoe bar, a pithivier worth turning around for, and a wine list in the thousands.Canal StTribeca
Eat & drink · 1 min · $$$PepolinoA Florentine-rooted Tribeca trattoria since 1999, beloved for pappa al pomodoro and a cloudlike ricotta cheesecake.
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$$$FrenchetteThe Balthazar alumni's own place — daily French menu, natural wine, duck frites worth the trip.
Experience · 3 min · $$$Jazz Below the Roxy at The DjangoA brick-vaulted cellar under a Tribeca hotel, with two sets of live jazz most nights.Eat & drink · 3 min · $$$$One White StreetA Tribeca townhouse restaurant cooking from its own upstate farm, with a seasonal six-course tasting menu.16 more near Canal St
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$$Brandy LibraryA thousand bottles shelved like books, rolling ladders, and leather chairs — spirits taken seriously.
Experience · 4 min · $La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream HouseA Tribeca room of continuous sound and colored light by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, in its 33rd year.
Experience · 5 min · FreeMarching in the Village Halloween ParadeAnyone in costume can march up Sixth Avenue with the giant puppets. It's always October 31, whatever day that falls on.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$Bubby'sTribeca's living room since 1990 — sourdough pancakes, seasonal pie, and no pretense at all.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$Two Hands TribecaSydney café culture on Church Street — flat whites, toasted banana bread and avocado toast.
Place · 6 min · FreeGreene Street cast-iron blocksThe world's best run of cast-iron facades, still impersonating marble after 150 years.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$$Cipriani DowntownA Bellini and carpaccio where the family that invented both still holds court, on SoHo's West Broadway.
Place · 6 min · FreeStaple Street SkybridgeA private sky-bridge over a one-lane street — downtown's favorite wrong turn.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$$JungsikYim Jung Sik's three-star Korean tasting menu on a quiet Tribeca corner.Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$Au ChevalChicago's cult cheeseburger, griddled behind a long counter in a moody Tribeca alley.
Experience · 7 min · $Mmuseumm in Cortlandt AlleyA tiny museum in a Tribeca freight elevator, displaying the overlooked objects of modern life.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$$MukuA tight Tribeca kaiseki-style counter where the soba is made from the chef's family buckwheat.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$Locanda VerdeThe Greenwich Hotel's corner taverna — ricotta crostini, big windows, and Tribeca at its calmest.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$$AteraA two-star tasting counter in Tribeca, in Ronny Emborg's final season.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$$Le CoucouDaniel Rose's candlelit French dining room in the 11 Howard hotel — pike quenelle, white linen, and service that makes an evening feel like an occasion.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$Dominique Ansel BakeryBirthplace of the Cronut — and the rest of the pastry case is the real argument.Chambers StTribeca
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.
Place · 5 min · FreeDuane ParkThe first land New York ever bought for a park — five dollars, 1797, still perfect.
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$The OdeonThe neon-lit brasserie that invented downtown — still serving martinis under its own legend.Eat & drink · 5 min · $$$Le GratinDaniel Boulud's Lyon-style bistro in the Beekman hotel — mirrors, cigar-brown banquettes and pike quenelle.3 more near Chambers St
Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$$AteraA two-star tasting counter in Tribeca, in Ronny Emborg's final season.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$$HusoBuddha Lo's caviar-house tasting menu, hidden behind Marky's in Tribeca.Eat & drink · 8 min · $$Two Hands TribecaSydney café culture on Church Street — flat whites, toasted banana bread and avocado toast.Fulton StFinancial District
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$$Le GratinDaniel Boulud's Lyon-style bistro in the Beekman hotel — mirrors, cigar-brown banquettes and pike quenelle.Experience · 5 min · FreeA Free Tour Inside New York City HallReserve a free tour of the 1812 landmark: its rotunda, the Council Chamber and the portrait-lined Governor's Room.
Experience · 6 min · FreeWhere Washington Took the Oath: Federal HallFree history on Wall Street, on the site where George Washington became the first president in 1789.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$$Crown ShyThe Financial District's grand Art Deco dining room, with a menu that roams from kibbeh nayeh to tandoori flatbread.High StBrooklyn Heights
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$$Henry's EndBrooklyn Heights' half-century dining room — wild game in winter, and a wine list that outclasses the room's size.
Eat & drink · 6 min · $L&B Spumoni Gardens (Dumbo)The 1939 sauce-on-top Sicilian square, now a few steps from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $$Juliana's PizzaPatsy Grimaldi's coal-oven homecoming under the Brooklyn Bridge — the margherita that settles arguments.
Place · 7 min · FreeWashington StreetThe bridge-framed block that made DUMBO's name — and it looks exactly as advertised.3 more near High St
Eat & drink · 7 min · $Almondine BakeryThe French bakery two minutes from the bridges — buy the almond croissant, eat it on the waterfront.Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$Ziggy's Roman CafeA Roman café in Dumbo from an Employees Only co-founder — thin crisp pizza, cacio e pepe, serious martinis, and a mezzanine where kids are welcome.
Eat & drink · 8 min · $$$Harriet's Rooftop (1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge)The tenth-floor terrace above Brooklyn Bridge Park — the skyline at cocktail height.Jay St-MetroTechBrooklyn Heights
Eat & drink · 2 min · $$$Gage & TollnerBrooklyn's 1892 chophouse reborn — mirrors, brass chandeliers, a perfect martini and baked Alaska.
Experience · 5 min · $Vintage Subway Cars at the New York Transit MuseumWalk through a century of subway cars parked on the tracks of a decommissioned Brooklyn station.Eat & drink · 7 min · $8 Bit BitesHalal smash burgers and shakes in a retro, pixel-art shop on Court Street, where 8 Bit Bites first began.Hoyt-Schermerhorn StsFort Greene
Eat & drink · 5 min · $$Stack'd BurgerA Downtown Brooklyn halal burger shop where fresh patties are cooked to order and the wings get a 16-hour marinade.Eat & drink · 6 min · $$$Gage & TollnerBrooklyn's 1892 chophouse reborn — mirrors, brass chandeliers, a perfect martini and baked Alaska.Experience · 8 min · $Vintage Subway Cars at the New York Transit MuseumWalk through a century of subway cars parked on the tracks of a decommissioned Brooklyn station.Nostrand AvBedford–Stuyvesant
Eat & drink · 3 min · $$BunnySchnitzel, lamb kebabs and Austrian reds at a candlelit, walk-in-only bistro run by a couple.
Eat & drink · 3 min · $A&A Bake & DoublesJames Beard-honored Trinidadian doubles on Fulton Street — soft bara, curried channa, tamarind and pepper.
Experience · 5 min · $$Saturday Jazz at Sistas' PlaceA Bed-Stuy community coffeehouse where Saturday nights mean a serious jazz band and a room of regulars.
Eat & drink · 7 min · $Barker CafeteriaSandwiches on house focaccia, proper soup and a changing pastry case at a homemade lunch counter on Nostrand.Euclid Av
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Stops follow a typical weekday midday A 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.