NYC Bucket List

A list of epic / valuable / meaningful things to do, see, and eat in New York City.

My favorites are bold. Most are things I've done / seen / eaten and loved in NYC. Things I Haven't Done Yet are exactly that.

Things to Do

• Bike in Central Park
• Boat to IKEA
• Cruise around Manhattan
• Ice Skate in Central Park
• Midnight Yoga at Laughing Lotus
• Run the Brooklyn Bridge
• Run in Central Park
• Run the perimeter of Manhattan
• Staten Island Ferry
• Walk the Brooklyn Bridge - for fun, for exercise, to get to a meeting, to visit a bookstore, to visit friends, to get a shower when your apartment doesn't have power, etc.

Places to Eat

• Babbo
• Burger Joint at Le Parker Meridien
• Candle Cafe
• Caracas Arepas Bar
• City Bakery - hot chocolate! deliciously intense + has a gigantic homemade marshmallow on top
• Grimaldi's
• Harry's Cafe for brunch, and for steak
• Ivo & Lulu - be sure to BYOB
• Jean Gorges
• Magnolia cupcakes
• The Met rooftop bar
• Peacock Alley brunch at the Waldorf Astoria
• Piccolo Cafe
• Peter Luger's
• Shake Shack - Madison Square Park, Tribeca, Brooklyn, anywhere really
• Sylvia's

Places to Visit / See

• Broadway show
• Concert at Webster Hall
• Coney Island
• Grant's Tomb
• McSorley's - especially if you're a lady because you've only been allowed in there for a short time -_- and if you miss frat houses
• Madison Square Garden - Knicks game + footlong hotdogs + beer preferred
• Marriott View
• Museum of Sex
• Museum of Modern Art
• Museum of Natural History
• Off-Broadway show
• Opera at Lincoln Center
• Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
• Rooftop Bars - as many as you can find, e.g. Empire Hotel, 230 Fifth, the Met
• 9/11 site & Memorial
• St. John's Cathedral
• The Strand
• Village Tour of Dangerous NYC Women Who Shaped History

Things I Haven't Done Yet

Things to Do

• Bike the Five Boroughs
• Boat in Central Park

Places to Visit / See

• Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
• Brooklyn Brewery
• Governor's Island
• Hack the Met tour
• Prospect Park