L29 NeighborhoodsDaily
Upper East Side, Manhattan →The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave · Go at opening, choose three galleries, leave the rest for next time
Picks like this, every Friday
Seven things worth leaving the apartment for, hand-checked. One short email, free, one tap to leave.
More in Upper East Side, Manhattan
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum1071 Fifth Ave · Take the elevator up and walk the spiral down — the way Wright intended
- Neue Galerie & Café Sabarsky1048 Fifth Ave · Klimt’s Adele upstairs, Viennese pastry downstairs
- The Frick Collection1 E 70th St · Old Masters in a Gilded Age mansion · The Garden Court is the quietest room in New York
- Bemelmans BarThe Carlyle, 35 E 76th St · Ludwig Bemelmans’ murals, live piano from the early evening
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum2 E 91st St · Design in the Carnegie Mansion · The garden is free and almost always empty
- Conservatory Garden, Central Park105th St at Fifth Ave · Six formal acres, no bicycles, no radios · Free