Terms of Service

What MUSEENYC is

MUSEENYC is an independent editorial guide to New York City — restaurants, bars, rooftops, clubs and music rooms, museums and galleries, parks and public space, and writing about the city. Everything here is our opinion, formed from visits we made anonymously and paid our own way for.

Nobody pays to be included, and nobody can pay to be removed, to be scored higher, or to be added to the M List. If that ever changes — if we run a sponsored piece or take an affiliate link — it will be labelled as such on the page it appears on.

Reviews are opinion, not fact

Scores, rankings and the M List are editorial judgements — our honest opinion, formed from a real visit, and nothing more. Reasonable people disagree about restaurants, and we're frequently among them. Nothing on this site is a statement that a business broke a law, a health code, or any other regulation; if we thought that, we'd say it plainly and mean it literally, not imply it through a score.

Details go stale. Opening hours, prices, door policies, cover charges, menus and whether a place is still open all change without warning, often the week after we publish. Check with the venue before you build a night around anything you read here. We don't guarantee that any information on the site is current, complete or accurate.

We're not the businesses we write about

MUSEENYC is independent. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or operated by any restaurant, bar, club, museum, park, shop or other place mentioned on this site — including places on the M List. A high score is not a business relationship.

Business names, logos and trademarks that appear here belong to their owners. We use them only to identify the place we're reviewing, the way any publication naming a restaurant does — not to claim any connection to it beyond that.

Events, venues and your own judgement

Events are run by third parties, not by us. Ticketing, entry, refunds and cancellations are between you and the organiser.

Bars and clubs set their own age limits and admission policies, and much of what we cover is for people of legal drinking age. Please drink responsibly, follow venue rules, and use your own judgement about where and when you go.

Links to other sites

We link out to venues, ticket sellers and other publications. We don't control those sites and aren't responsible for their content, their accuracy or their privacy practices.

Our content

The writing, photography, scores, the MUSEENYC name and the M mark belong to MUSEENYC and are protected by copyright and trademark law.

You're welcome to:

• Link to any page here, anywhere.
• Quote a short passage — a sentence or two — with clear attribution and a link back.

Please don't:

• Republish whole reviews, guides or listings, on any platform.
• Scrape or bulk-copy the site, including to build a database or train a commercial model, without written permission.
• Use the MUSEENYC name or M mark in a way that implies we endorse you.

Want to use something? Ask — museenyc.art@gmail.com. The answer is often yes.

Tips, pitches and anything you send us

If you send us a tip, a photo, a pitch or a correction, you're confirming it's yours to send, and you're giving us permission to publish and edit it here and on our social accounts, with credit where it makes sense. You keep ownership of what you sent. We're not obliged to publish anything, and we don't treat submissions as confidential — so don't send us secrets.

You're responsible for what you send us. If something you submit isn't actually yours to send, or gets us into a dispute with someone else — a copyright claim, for instance — you agree to cover the reasonable costs that causes us.

Using the site

Don't attack the site, don't try to break into anything, and don't use it to break the law. That's the whole list.

No warranty, and the limit of what we owe you

The site is provided “as is”. We don't promise it will always be available, error-free, or right about anything in particular.

To the fullest extent the law allows, MUSEENYC isn't liable for any loss arising from your use of the site or from anything you did because you read it here — including a disappointing dinner, a queue, a closed door, or a cancelled show. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that can't legally be limited, and if you're a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.

Corrections

If we've got something wrong — a fact, a price, a closure, a name — tell us at museenyc.art@gmail.com and we'll fix it. We'd rather be corrected than be wrong.

If you run a place we've written about

Email us. We read everything, and a factual error gets fixed as soon as we can confirm it.

What we won't do is take down or soften an honest opinion, formed from a real visit, because it's unwelcome — including places with an M. Nobody can buy their way onto this site, and nobody can buy their way off it either; a review that could be edited away by a complaint wouldn't be worth reading in the first place.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, and any dispute belongs in the state or federal courts of New York County, New York.

If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, that part is trimmed and the rest stays in effect.

Changes

We may update these terms; the date at the top will change when we do. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the new version.