- Whitney Museum (Jeff Koons!) [edit: new RENZO PIANO BUILDING DOWNTOWN!!!!]
- Guggenheim Museum
- MoMA (Matisse, Van Gogh, Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities)
- Museum of New York (Madeline in New York)
- Museum of the City of New York (the landmarks exhibit for historic preservation nerds)
- Tenement Museum
- Natural History Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art rooftop
- Met Breur
- Top of the Rock at dusk
- Gantry Plaza State Park (+ LIC market)
- Ford Foundation building by Kevin Roche
- Hudson Pier Park
- Brooklyn Bridge Park
- Cross the Manhattan Bridge
- High Line
- Chelsea Market
- Pocket Square Parks (75th street, 51st street, Greenacre)
- NY Public Library (Bryant Park)
- NYCHA Developments (near Flushing Ave, Marcus Garvey, Sotomayor)
- Prospect Park (ice skating rink, lake, kennedy fountain)
- Bjarke Ingels West 57
- New York by Frank Gehry- 8 Spruce Street
- Freedom Tower Deck
- East River Promenade (43rd street down to Grand)
- UN Headquarters
- Tudor City
- La Guardia Place
- Washington Square Park
- Central Park Loeb Boathouse + the Castle thing for the best view
- Battery Park City
- Roosevelt Island (Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park and Katchkie Farm in summer)
- Jewish Museum
- Governors Island
- Robert Moses Playground (just because....)
- Sugar Hill Complex
- Calatrava at WTC
- Fulton Center
- NYU Wagner Building top floor sick view
- That bookstore tucked in the back of the French High Commission by Central Park East
- South Street Seaport (and Pier 16)
- Coney Island
- The Invisible Dog Glasshouse
- Upper West Side on Saturday (along Amsterdam)
- New Museum (Chris Ofili)
- Bronx Botanical Gardens
- Bronx Zoo
- Grace Plaza
- Flatiron Building
- Shakespeare/ Summer film at Central Park
- ACE Hotel Rooftop
- Gowanus Green by Jonathan Rose
- The New School by SOM
- Bloomberg Tower (731 Lexington Ave, the 58st side YAS)
- Bergdorf at Christmas
- Macy's Thanksgiving Parade on the Upper West Side (and Climate Change March)
- Brooklyn Flea
- Columbus Circle Christmas Market
- Lincoln Center (outdoor exhibitions are always great and the film center!)
- The Shops at Columbus Circle / Time Warner Center (for sick views into Central Park)
- St Patrick's Cathedral (undergoing conservation works)
- Grand Central Terminal (for Gossip Girl moment)
- Hearst Building
- Columbia University
- Pratt Institute (Brooklyn campus)
- MoMA PS1 (NY Art Book Fair)
- Waverly Place for Halloween Outdoor Community Theater
- Center for Architecture
- Storefront for Art and Architecture (for ever-changing façade)
- Fort Greene Park
- Barclays Center/ Atlantic Yards (just because...)
- Mondrian SoHo Courtyard
- Cooper-Hewitt (all-time favorite)
- GAP on the upper east side (whoever does their displays is genius)
- Victoria's Secret at Herald Square
- Urban Outfitters in the West Village
- Riverside Park (+ pier for free summer movies!)
- St Nicholas Park (the most amazing view of Empire State Building at night... but don't go alone, woman)
- El Dorado (the weird twin building seen from the east side of Central Park, across the J Kennedy Onassis Lake)
- First Park (on 1st and 1st- for perfect lunch spot!)
- New York City Marble Cemetery (the most bizarre thing to encounter)
- Collect Pond Park (for a beautiful park that smells like faeces)
- Freshkills Park (Thanks to NY Road Runners I took a stroll through the park!)
- Randall's Island Park (done. did. went for Frieze Art Fair. never walk across to the island. nonono)
- The Rubin Museum (for all things zen and buddhist)
- The High Line Hotel (dat courtyard, dat coffee)
- 192 Books (Best selection of art, architecture and english literary books)
- Storm King Art Center
- dia: beacon museum
- Bushwick Inlet Park
- Transmitter Park
- Bush Terminal Park
- Brooklyn Army Terminal
- The Intrepid
- The Cloisters
- Industry City (Bed Bath and Beyond and Smorgasburg)
- Transmitter Park
- Brooklyn Grange
- North Brooklyn Farms