

Photo by Greg Navarro

Our tip? Visit on Saturday night at 2am, after you’ve caught some live music nearby. Soak it up with a pastrami sandwich, just like Like Keith Haring and Basquiat used to.

Explore the rigors and elegance of decades of New York painting at this tiny storefront off the Sara D. Roosevelt Park.

A refuge for art that is quietly optimistic about the future, from a designer who lost everything in a fire.

This serene and sustainable housewares and clothing store is all breezy white cottons and flowy tops and dresses that would be as comfortable in a sweet-smelling meadow as they are in Manhattan.