Novelists, Artists, Architects, Curators, Filmmakers, Historians, and Gourmets Reveal their Favourite Discoveries in the Ultimate Insider's Guide.
Ever obsessed with the chicest, the hippest, the cheapest, the quirkiest, the most delectable, the most luxurious, the most entertaining - in short, the best of everything - New Yorkers are the perfect tour guides to their always magnificent but often overwhelming city.
Food: a rollicking dockside all-you-can-eat fish restaurant on City Island, a Hasidic dairy bar in the tucked away diamond district, the midtown deli where actors, directors and producers can be found hatching the next Broadway hit.
Places: the quintessential Village bookstore, the funky Russian Baths, the most beautifully decorated subway stops, 'the greatest pleasure palace of NYC' (Yankee Stadium).
Events: the best non-commercial Italian Street fair, where to play petanque with French New Yorkers on Bastille Day.