“There are roughly three New Yorks . There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter--the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last--the city of final destination, the city that is a goal.”

E.B. White.

Certainly, I include myself in the third category mentioned by White.

Well, it is impossible to list here all the places I love in the city. Each week I discover new venues. But here's my list!

Cinemas

Angelica – Houston & Mercer, West Village
Film Forum – 209 West Houston
Sunshine Cinema – 143 East Houston , and First Avenue
Walter Read Theatre - 65 th Street at Lincoln Center

Books and CDs

Barnes & Noble - 66 & Broadway (they are all over).
Tower Records – 66 Street & Broadway

Dance

Joyce Theatre – 19 St & Eighth Avenue

Restaurants

Café Fiorello - 1900 Broadway, between 63rd - 64th
Café Lalo - 201 W 83rd Street ( between Broadway & Amsterdam)
Casimir – Avenue B between 6 th & 7 th streets.
East - 251 W 55th Street
Fairway – 74 com Broadway
Le Gamin – 21 st Street and Nineth Avenue
Le Pain Quotidien - 58 Street and Seventh Avenue
Lincoln Plaza - Broadway between 62 nd and 63 rd streets.
Lincoln Square – 68 th street and Broadway
Malaysian Grill – 87 th Street and Broadway
Penang – 71 st Street and Broadway.
Soup Nazi - 259 W 55th Street .
Tanti Baci Café - 163 W 10th Street .
Tartine - West 4th & West 11th.
The Dove (Bar ) – 228 Thompson Street
Zabar's (market) – 80 th Street and Broadway
Zen Palate – 46 th & Nine Avenue / 16 & Union Square / 2170 Broadway, at 76 Street.

“On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. (…) The capacity to make such dubious gifts is a mysterious quality of New York . It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.”

E.B. White.

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