We're just people who like this city
MUSEENYC is a running record of what's good in New York — the show worth the L train, the $4 slice worth the detour, the take worth arguing over at 1am.
It started as an Instagram (@museenyc) and it's turning into this: a place where the recommendations don't disappear into a feed after 24 hours. Everything here is curated by hand. Nobody pays to be included.
Why everything here scores so well
Fair question, and the answer is the whole method: this is an ultra-filtered list. New York has tens of thousands of places to eat, drink and go — we see a great many of them and post a fraction. Somewhere that merely disappoints doesn't get a bad write-up here; it gets left out. Our tolerance is high on the way in, which is exactly why the scores run high once something makes it.
So read the numbers as a ranking among things already worth your time, not as a curve across the whole city. An 8.5 here is not a warning — it's still a place we're sending you to.
If you live here
You already know your six blocks. This is for the other 300 square miles — the room worth crossing the bridge for, the basement gallery in Chinatown, the pier that beats the rooftop charging for the same view.
If you're visiting
You're not the audience, and that's exactly why it's worth reading. What you get is the version we'd give a friend who moved here in March — not the list that appears when someone types "best restaurants NYC".
Submit a tip or pitch
Running an event? Opening a place? Want to write for us? DM@museenyc or email museenyc.art@gmail.com. We read everything.
