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Celebrate New York

T+L has called this city home for 35 years—and its vitality and enduring spirit continue to amaze us. Here, a few of our favorite New York experiences

    • Getting lost in the Strand bookstore on Broadway
    828 Broadway; 212/473-1452; www.strandbooks.com

    • Friday-night jazz at Smalls on West 10th Street
    183 West 10th St.; www.fatcatjazz.com

    • Sampling aged Gouda at Murray's Cheese Shop, in the West Village
    254 Bleecker St.; 212/243-3289; www.murrayscheese.com

    • Takashimaya's travel department on Fifth Avenue
    693 Fifth Avenue; 212/350-0100

    • Soft-shell crab at Chinatown's New York Noodle Town
    28 Bowery St; 212/349-0923

    • Open artists' studios at next month's DUMBO Arts Festival
    October 13-15, 2006; Brooklyn; www.dumboartscenter.org/festival/2006/

    • "Wicked hot chocolate" at Jacques Torres on Hudson Street
    350 Hudson St.; 212/414-2462; www.mrchocolate.com

    • The Shop in the Garden at the New York Botanical Garden
    Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road, Bronx; 718/817-8700; www.nybgshopinthegarden.org

    • The Saturday-afternoon dance party at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, in Queens
    22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens; 718/784-2084; www.ps1.org

    • Black sesame gelato at Orchard Street's Il Laboratorio del Gelato
    95 Orchard St.; 212/343-9922; www.laboratoriodelgelato.com

    • Antiquing on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn

    • Bellinis at the Rainbow Room
    30 Rockefeller Plaza; 212/632-5100; www.rainbowroom.com

    • A Brooklyn Cyclones baseball game at Coney Island's Keyspan Park
    1904 Surf Ave., Brooklyn; 718/507-TIXX; www.brooklyncyclones.com

    • The view of the East River from L'Impero restaurant, on Tudor City Place
    45 Tudo City Palace; 212/599-5045; www.limpero.com

    • Watching the American Ballet Theatre's Julie Kent perform
    890 Broadway; 212/477-3030; www.abt.org

    • The view of MoMA's sculpture garden from the dining room of the Modern
    11 West 53 St.; 212/708-9400; www.moma.org

    • People-watching from the sidewalk benches at Café Gitane in Nolita
    242 Mott St.; 212/334-9552

    • Scoring vintage Balenciaga at Ina's designer resale, in SoHo
    101 Thompson St.; 212/941-4757; www.inanyc.com

    • The bow-tie–clad bartenders at Union Square Café
    21 East 16th St.; 212/243-4020; www.unionsquarecafe.com

    • A pedicure at Jin Soon Spa, on the Upper East Side
    421 East 73rd St.; 212/249-9144

    • Central Park's Shakespeare Garden
    West Side of Central Park between 79th and 80th Streets; www.centralparknyc.org/virtualpark/thegreatlawn/shakespearegarden

    • Sunday-evening fiction readings at KGB Bar on East Fourth Street
    85 East 4th St.; 212/505-3360; www.kgbbar.com

    • Late-night steak frites at Florent, in the Meatpacking District
    69 Gansevoort St.; 212/989-5779; www.restaurantflorent.com