The Ultimate NYC GuideNew York City
New York City
Tours, Guides & Reviews
By people who live here, for anyone who wants the real thing: locals, and visitors we'd happily walk around with. 229 places with real soul, nowhere anyone paid to be, and the list keeps growing.
Everything on MUSEENYC
229 places, 15 walking tours and 64 guides. Pick where to start.
Eat & drink
See & do
- Walking toursSelf-guided routes with maps and printable PDFs15 tours
- Museums & galleriesWhat to see, and when it’s free15 places
- Parks & placesParks, bridges, beaches and streets48 places
- Everything elseStadiums, cigar rooms and odd shops11 places
- Day tripsOut of the city by train, back by dinner4 trips
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The M List
We cut far more than we keep. The M is the list we'd give a friend who just moved here — the one you can't get from a search result, because nobody paid to be on it and nobody can ask.
Walking tours and guides
Start with a walking tour
Guides people are reading
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Where to eat
31 neighborhoods · 29 cuisines
9.9Pommes FritesFresh Belgian frites, a wall of sauces, and the most generous beer pour in New York.9.9Spicy VillageBig tray chicken on Forsyth Street — spicy, numbing, and built for a table, though we know someone who finishes one alone.9.8Joe's PizzaThe benchmark. If you only eat one New York slice, this is the one every other slice gets measured against.
Where to go out
16 neighborhoods · 7 kinds of night
9.9H0L0The best-tuned sound system we have heard in New York — deep, loud, and somehow never harsh.9.8Cellar DogJazz downstairs, ping pong and shuffleboard in the same room, and the only cover charge in the city we would call cheap.9.6BasementThe techno club under Knockdown Center in Maspeth, and a world of its own until morning.
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All 55 neighborhoods →The city, lately
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