New York
Most of what matters in Manhattan lies within a few dozen blocks, from the Upper East Side to Tribeca. The best rooms face the park or the river, the tables that matter are held for regulars, and galleries, studios and museums open by appointment.
30 recommendations in six sections.
Stay
The best hotel suites in New York
The room, not the hotel: in each hotel that matters, the suite to ask for.
The Aman Suite at Aman New York
A one-bedroom suite of 185 m² on the 11th and 12th floors of the Crown Building, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, with a working fireplace, a study and a table for six.
The Baccarat Suite at Baccarat Hotel New York
The top-floor signature suite of Baccarat Hotel New York, across 53rd Street from MoMA: 1,740 sq ft with one bedroom, a living room, a dining area and a butler's pantry.
The Penthouse at The Mark
The top two floors of The Mark on the Upper East Side: more than 10,000 sq ft, five bedrooms, a dining room for 12 and a 2,500 sq ft roof terrace over Central Park.
The Presidential Suite at The Carlyle
The whole 26th floor of The Carlyle's Art Deco tower on Madison Avenue: three bedrooms, a private elevator landing and windows on every side over Central Park and Midtown.
The Presidential Suite at The St. Regis New York
A two-bedroom suite of 3,000 square feet on the 16th floor of the St. Regis at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street, with a private dining room, a wood-panelled library and a kitchen, and windows over Central Park.
Dine
Private dining rooms in New York
The table and the room: private rooms, chef's counters, and whom to ask.
The counter at Atomix
Chef Junghyun Park's 14-seat U-shaped counter facing the open kitchen, downstairs at Atomix, which can be booked whole for a private dinner of up to 15.
The private dining room at Eleven Madison Park
A private room at Eleven Madison Park for up to 24 at one table or 27 at three round tables, under a floor-to-ceiling painting by Francesco Clemente.
The private room at Jungsik
A private dining room for up to 16 at Jungsik, Jungsik Yim's three-Michelin-star Korean restaurant on Harrison Street in Tribeca.
The sushi counter at Masa
Chef Masa Takayama's ten-seat omakase counter, cut from a single piece of hinoki, which can be booked whole for a private party.
The West Room at Per Se
The larger of Per Se's two private dining rooms, seating up to 66 on the fourth floor at Columbus Circle, with its own guest lobby and restrooms.
Arrive
Arriving in New York by private jet or commercial flight
Getting in and out without a queue: by private jet, on a commercial flight, by car or by helicopter.
The airport transfer at HeliFlite
A private helicopter between the Manhattan heliports and JFK, LaGuardia, Newark, Teterboro or White Plains, flown by two pilots in a twin-engine Sikorsky S-76.
The Delta One Lounge at JFK
A private check-in at Door B, a private security lane and a lounge of more than 39,000 sq ft in JFK Terminal 4, for passengers flying Delta One or a partner's first or business class that day.
The Jet Aviation terminal at Teterboro
A private aviation terminal at Teterboro, 12 miles from Midtown Manhattan, open 24 hours with US customs, a guarded ramp and nine heated hangars.
The megayacht berth at Chelsea Piers Marina
A berth on the Hudson between West 17th and 23rd Streets for a yacht up to 350 feet, one of 25 megayacht berths in a 65-slip marina with guest services around the clock.
The Million Air terminal at Westchester
A private aviation terminal of 22,000 sq ft at Westchester County Airport, about 33 miles north of Midtown Manhattan, open 24 hours, with an indoor drive-in arrival hall and a heated hangar that takes a Gulfstream G650.
Access
What is not on the public calendar: before opening, after closing, by appointment.
The guided tour of the Louise Bourgeois house
A guided group tour, by appointment only, of the Chelsea townhouse where Louise Bourgeois lived and worked for almost 50 years, with her studio, archive and sculpture garden.
The guided visit to 101 Spring Street
A 75-minute guided visit, by advance reservation only, through the five floors of the 1870 cast-iron building in SoHo where Donald Judd lived and worked, with 37 works still where he placed them.
The private guided tour at the Neue Galerie
An hour with a museum docent for a party of up to ten through the Klimt, Schiele and Wiener Werkstätte rooms of the Neue Galerie, a Beaux-Arts house on Fifth Avenue at 86th Street.
The private guided tour at the Noguchi Museum
An hour with a museum educator, by appointment for up to 15, through the museum and sculpture garden Isamu Noguchi built and installed himself in Long Island City.
The private guided tour at the Whitney
An hour with a Whitney guide for a party of up to 25 through the collection of American art in Renzo Piano's building at the foot of the High Line.
Care
Private doctors and discreet services in New York
Discreet services on short notice.
Couture cleaning at Madame Paulette
A Manhattan cleaner and restorer of couture, vintage and bridal pieces for more than 50 years, with its own tailors, hand laundering, vault storage and delivery to wherever the wardrobe is going.
Hotel childcare from Baby Sitters' Guild
A New York babysitting agency, in business since 1940, that sends an employed, vetted sitter to your hotel room for four hours or more, an evening or the night.
The bespoke suit at Leonard Logsdail
A fully handmade suit cut by Leonard Logsdail, a Savile Row-trained tailor, in his fourth-floor workroom on East 53rd Street.
The East 57th Street institute at Atria
A members' medical practice at 36 East 57th Street with a dedicated Chief Medical Officer, doctors in more than 15 specialties, its own MRI and CT suites, and home visits at any hour.
The Upper East Side flagship at Sollis Health
A members' emergency and urgent-care center on the lower level of 170 East 77th Street, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, with ER-trained doctors, five exam rooms, on-site imaging and an in-house lab.
Around
A day outside the city: the Hamptons, the Hudson Valley, the coast.
A guided tour of the Pollock-Krasner House
A docent-led tour of the 1879 house and the barn studio in Springs, East Hampton, where Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked, with the floor Pollock poured his paintings on still in place.
A private tour of Manitoga
A private guided tour of Dragon Rock, the house and studio the designer Russel Wright built on the ledge of an old quarry at Garrison, 50 miles north of Manhattan, and of the 75-acre woodland garden around it.
A private tour of Olana
A weekday private tour for up to five people of Frederic Church's house, studio and 250-acre designed landscape above the Hudson at Hudson, New York, led by staff outside public hours.
A private tour of the Glass House
A private tour of up to three hours of Philip Johnson's 49-acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut: the Glass House of 1949, the Brick House, the painting and sculpture galleries and the landscape, by appointment.
A weekday at Storm King Art Center
A day among large-scale sculpture and earthworks on 500 acres of hills, meadows and woods in the Hudson Valley, about an hour's drive north of Manhattan.
