Museums

• The Morgan Library and Museum. We live very close to this museum, and it's free on Friday nights! It has a lovely collection housed in an intimate setting.
• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. This museum is in a great old building, and tends to have some very interesting exhibits.

Civic Resources

• NY Public Library. We live right near the mid-Manhattan branch and use it all of the time. It is too bad that it is underfunded; it would be nice if it were open more often!

Food

• Vere Chocolate makes great stuff!

Miscellaneous

• Gawker Stalker. Celebrity sightings in Manhattan.
• Overheard in NY: conversational snippets heard around town
• Straphangers map. Interactive NYC subway map
• hopstop.com. Directions in NYC.
• Big Onion tours