Hwa Yuan for duck – 42 E Broadway (Chinatown) Nom Wah for all day dim sum - 13 Doyers St (Chinatown) Superbueno for Mexican snacks and cocktails – 13 1st Ave (Houston) Casino for white tablecloth Italian - 171 E Broadway (Chinatown) Raoul’s for white tablecloth French - 180 Prince St (Soho) Fish Cheeks for Thai - 55 Bond St (Noho)
Chelsea: Little Island (https://littleisland.org/activities/) Gallery-hop around Chelsea (Start at David Zwirner and make your way up to Pace Gallery) The Shed (https://www.theshed.org/calendar) *For ambitious walkers, you could stroll the entire High Line and hit these along the way. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum (https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/) Brooklyn Botanical (https://www.bbg.org/) Queens: Noguchi Museum (https://www.noguchi.org/) MoMA PS1 (https://www.momaps1.org/) Museum of the Moving Image (https://movingimage.org/)
Bop around the Lower East Side + Chinatown. Orchard Street - start at Orchard St. and Delancey St, make your way down Orchard to Canal St. Pop into Sandy Liang, Lara Koleji, Wray, Collina Strada. In the area - Assembly NY, Dana Foley, Superette. The mall @ 75 East Broadway - head upstairs for James Veloria, Eckhaus Latta, and other shops + galleries.
Stroll St. Mark's Place and surrounding blocks. NYC doesn't have an official Little Tokyo but if it did this would be it. Check out the izakayas, sake bars and shops. Try: Yakitori Taisho for snacks (St. Marks) Bar Decibel for drinks (East 9th) Tokio 7 for vintage and consignment (East 7th)