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Upper East Side, Manhattan: the Gothamly guide
Hand-picked by Gothamly and checked against each place’s own site. Nobody paid to be here.
- Daily
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave · Go at opening, choose three galleries, leave the rest for next time
- Daily
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave · Take the elevator up and walk the spiral down — the way Wright intended
- Thu–Mon
Neue Galerie & Café Sabarsky
1048 Fifth Ave · Klimt’s Adele upstairs, Viennese pastry downstairs
- Thu–Sun
The Frick Collection
1 E 70th St · Old Masters in a Gilded Age mansion · The Garden Court is the quietest room in New York
- Nightly
Bemelmans Bar
The Carlyle, 35 E 76th St · Ludwig Bemelmans’ murals, live piano from the early evening
- Daily
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St · Design in the Carnegie Mansion · The garden is free and almost always empty
- Daily
Conservatory Garden, Central Park
105th St at Fifth Ave · Six formal acres, no bicycles, no radios · Free
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