Guidebook for New York

Elizabeth And Elias
Elizabeth And Elias
Guidebook for New York

Getting Around

You can catch three trains at this station - A (express), C (local), and 1 (local). It is about 20 minutes to midtown on the A train.
8 locals recommend
168 Street Station
8 locals recommend
You can catch three trains at this station - A (express), C (local), and 1 (local). It is about 20 minutes to midtown on the A train.
At this station, you can catch the A train. I prefer to use 168th in general, but this stop is a bit quieter and sometimes you are more likely to get a seat on the train from here.
175 St station
807 W 177th St
At this station, you can catch the A train. I prefer to use 168th in general, but this stop is a bit quieter and sometimes you are more likely to get a seat on the train from here.

Food Scene

If you are looking for a quick latte or coffee and a sandwich, this is a great option just across the street from us. They also have some groceries, but they are a bit pricey.
7 locals recommend
Hilltop Perk Deli / Grocery
83 Haven Ave
7 locals recommend
If you are looking for a quick latte or coffee and a sandwich, this is a great option just across the street from us. They also have some groceries, but they are a bit pricey.
Awesome Ethiopian coffee shop, if you are in the mood to stroll a bit.
43 locals recommend
Cafe Buunni
213 Pinehurst Ave
43 locals recommend
Awesome Ethiopian coffee shop, if you are in the mood to stroll a bit.
This place has really great New York bagels, which they make each morning on the premises.
26 locals recommend
Mike's Bagels
4003 Broadway
26 locals recommend
This place has really great New York bagels, which they make each morning on the premises.
Amazing Italian restaurant with decent prices.
75 locals recommend
Saggio
827 W 181st St
75 locals recommend
Amazing Italian restaurant with decent prices.
Thai restaurant! Really good. The restaurant is BYOB.
13 locals recommend
Bangkok Heights
13 locals recommend
Thai restaurant! Really good. The restaurant is BYOB.
Dominican restaurant
101 locals recommend
Malecon
4141 Broadway
101 locals recommend
Dominican restaurant
Really great Central American food. Their pupusas are the best around!
El Paso Centroamericano
4129 Broadway
Really great Central American food. Their pupusas are the best around!
This place is more like a deli / juice bar. They have great healthy food options.
34 locals recommend
Pick & Eat Fresh Natural Fast
4179 Broadway
34 locals recommend
This place is more like a deli / juice bar. They have great healthy food options.
Barbecue food and gigantic margaritas and other drinks.
118 locals recommend
Dallas BBQ
3956 Broadway
118 locals recommend
Barbecue food and gigantic margaritas and other drinks.
Quiet but delicious Italian restaurant. If you go, you have to order the Grandma's style pizza!
39 locals recommend
Antika
3924 Broadway
39 locals recommend
Quiet but delicious Italian restaurant. If you go, you have to order the Grandma's style pizza!
753 locals recommend
Starbucks
301 W 145th St
753 locals recommend
Decent American-style diner food.
15 locals recommend
Hudson View
770 W 181st St
15 locals recommend
Decent American-style diner food.
Great cakes and pastries!
24 locals recommend
Carrot Top Pastries
5025 Broadway
24 locals recommend
Great cakes and pastries!
Sports bar and restaurant. They have karaoke and a brunch deal.
61 locals recommend
Coogans
4015 Broadway
61 locals recommend
Sports bar and restaurant. They have karaoke and a brunch deal.
Good sushi/Japanese food
22 locals recommend
Sushi Yu 2
4311 W 181st St
22 locals recommend
Good sushi/Japanese food
If you are in the area, you have to drop by Koreatown and have some Korean BBQ. Miss Korea is great and has barbecue stations at each table, where they cook your food in front of you.
26 locals recommend
miss KOREA BBQ
10 W 32nd St
26 locals recommend
If you are in the area, you have to drop by Koreatown and have some Korean BBQ. Miss Korea is great and has barbecue stations at each table, where they cook your food in front of you.
Romantic Italian restaurant with a back garden that is glassed-in.
22 locals recommend
La Lanterna di Vittorio
129 MacDougal St
22 locals recommend
Romantic Italian restaurant with a back garden that is glassed-in.
It's where Harry Met Sally!
690 locals recommend
Katz's Delicatessen
205 E Houston St
690 locals recommend
It's where Harry Met Sally!
264 locals recommend
The Spotted Dog
1154 1st Ave.
264 locals recommend

Essentials

Not the greatest produce, but this is a conveniently located grocery store if you need to pick up some food.
66 locals recommend
Gristedes Foods
66 locals recommend
Not the greatest produce, but this is a conveniently located grocery store if you need to pick up some food.
This Rite Aid has a pharmacy, as well as personal care and beauty items, some food, really anything you need in case you have forgotten to pack something. They also have a 24-hour Citibank ATM in the entry.
133 locals recommend
Rite Aid
35-45 W 125th St
133 locals recommend
This Rite Aid has a pharmacy, as well as personal care and beauty items, some food, really anything you need in case you have forgotten to pack something. They also have a 24-hour Citibank ATM in the entry.
Urgent Care Center
21 Audubon Ave
Nail salon
La Bella
4117 Broadway
Nail salon

Parks & Nature

This park is amazing if you have some time to explore. It is right underneath the George Washington Bridge, but you would never know it. There is a cute little lighthouse, that was inspiration for the children's book "The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge".
33 locals recommend
Fort Washington Park
Hudson River Greenway
33 locals recommend
This park is amazing if you have some time to explore. It is right underneath the George Washington Bridge, but you would never know it. There is a cute little lighthouse, that was inspiration for the children's book "The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge".
A great park with beautiful flowers and views overlooking the Hudson River.
343 locals recommend
Fort Tryon Park
Dr To Broadway
343 locals recommend
A great park with beautiful flowers and views overlooking the Hudson River.
This is a little park that just happens to be the highest point in Manhattan, and was the site of the Battle of Fort Washington during the Revolutionary War. It's now a playground! If you go, check out the Little Library, a small little take-a-book, leave-a-book cubby.
28 locals recommend
Bennett Park
Fort Washington Avenue
28 locals recommend
This is a little park that just happens to be the highest point in Manhattan, and was the site of the Battle of Fort Washington during the Revolutionary War. It's now a playground! If you go, check out the Little Library, a small little take-a-book, leave-a-book cubby.
353 locals recommend
Battery Park
353 locals recommend
Really cool park that used to be an abandoned railway track.
2323 locals recommend
The High Line Park
2323 locals recommend
Really cool park that used to be an abandoned railway track.
Down near NYU, this is my favorite park to sit and listen to jazz.
946 locals recommend
Washington Square Park
Washington Square
946 locals recommend
Down near NYU, this is my favorite park to sit and listen to jazz.
2030 locals recommend
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Ave
2030 locals recommend

Arts & Culture

Really interesting museum that looks like a castle. Lots of manuscripts, tapestries, and sculptures.
707 locals recommend
The Met Cloisters
99 Margaret Corbin Dr
707 locals recommend
Really interesting museum that looks like a castle. Lots of manuscripts, tapestries, and sculptures.
Great old-fashioned theater with live music.
40 locals recommend
United Palace
4140 Broadway
40 locals recommend
Great old-fashioned theater with live music.
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
1623 locals recommend
We actually both work here. If you are visiting during the concert season and would like to catch a show, please let us know and we can try to arrange for complimentary tickets!!
175 locals recommend
Carnegie Hall
175 locals recommend
We actually both work here. If you are visiting during the concert season and would like to catch a show, please let us know and we can try to arrange for complimentary tickets!!
116 locals recommend
Metropolitan Opera House
30 Lincoln Center Plaza
116 locals recommend
Salmagundi Museum of American Art
884 locals recommend
2114 locals recommend
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
2114 locals recommend
893 locals recommend
Apollo Theater
253 W 125th St
893 locals recommend
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
West 46th Street
379 locals recommend
2653 locals recommend
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
2653 locals recommend
New York Public Library - Bloomingdale Library
476 5th Ave
166 locals recommend
Very cool museum that takes you into the lives of immigrants who have come to NYC over the decades.
603 locals recommend
Tenement Museum
103 Orchard St
603 locals recommend
Very cool museum that takes you into the lives of immigrants who have come to NYC over the decades.

Drinks & Nightlife

Very decently priced liquor store with a great selection of wine and spirits.
17 locals recommend
COLUMBIA WINE CO.
4038 Broadway
17 locals recommend
Very decently priced liquor store with a great selection of wine and spirits.
Fun Irish bar with good beer and really good fries.
95 locals recommend
Le Chéile
839 W 181st St
95 locals recommend
Fun Irish bar with good beer and really good fries.
This place is super fun and has great music. The drinks are cheap and delicious and the tapas are good. They have an unlimited drinks brunch on the weekend that is $10 for all-you-can-drink mimosas in different flavors - highly recommended!
23 locals recommend
Marcha Cocina Bar
4055 Broadway
23 locals recommend
This place is super fun and has great music. The drinks are cheap and delicious and the tapas are good. They have an unlimited drinks brunch on the weekend that is $10 for all-you-can-drink mimosas in different flavors - highly recommended!
This is a small but fun latin bar/restaurant. They specialize in grilled meats and things like that.
9 locals recommend
Parrilla Latin Bistro
3920 Broadway
9 locals recommend
This is a small but fun latin bar/restaurant. They specialize in grilled meats and things like that.
14 locals recommend
Monkey Room
589 Fort Washington Ave
14 locals recommend

Sightseeing

This is the site of the Track and Field Hall of Fame.
15 locals recommend
The Armory
149 4th Ave
15 locals recommend
This is the site of the Track and Field Hall of Fame.
The oldest building in New York City.
107 locals recommend
Morris-Jumel Mansion
65 Jumel Terrace
107 locals recommend
The oldest building in New York City.
1787 locals recommend
Empire State Building
20 W 34th St
1787 locals recommend
If you have time to walk or bike over the bridge, it makes a great afternoon.
1505 locals recommend
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge Promenade
1505 locals recommend
If you have time to walk or bike over the bridge, it makes a great afternoon.
1303 locals recommend
Statue of Liberty Museum Shop
1 Liberty Island - Ellis Island
1303 locals recommend
514 locals recommend
Yankee Stadium
1 E 161 St
514 locals recommend
Personally I find it overcrowded and not super fun to walk around, but if you have never seen Times Square before it's worth a quick visit. Maybe catch a Broadway show too!
2037 locals recommend
Times Square
2037 locals recommend
Personally I find it overcrowded and not super fun to walk around, but if you have never seen Times Square before it's worth a quick visit. Maybe catch a Broadway show too!
The site of the 1964-1965 World Fair.
250 locals recommend
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Van Wyck Expressway
250 locals recommend
The site of the 1964-1965 World Fair.
It can be very crowded, especially around Christmas time, but there is lots to do and it is fun to look around.
759 locals recommend
Rockefeller Center
45 Rockefeller Plaza
759 locals recommend
It can be very crowded, especially around Christmas time, but there is lots to do and it is fun to look around.