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Teresa Margolles’s En el lugar de los hechos (through February 2027), Precious Okoyomon’s courtyard commission, and James Turrell’s Skyspace Meeting on the third floor, open noon to sunset, closed in bad weather.

A nineteenth-century public school, closed as a school in 1963. Artworks are built into its walls, floors and ceilings, and a 1997 renovation added a large outdoor courtyard.

Curator Alanna Heiss opened it in 1976 with Rooms, which invited artists to transform the school’s dilapidated spaces. It came out of New York’s 1970s alternative-space movement and marks 50 years in 2026.

Free for all visitors from January 2026, for three years; reserve tickets online. Open noon to 6 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m.; closed Tuesday and Wednesday. No luggage. The café is closed until Symone opens.

Through December 28, 2026: Cevdet Erek’s Americas, five sound works plus a new commission; Aziz Hazara’s Coming Home; and Yining Fei’s Feral Sediment.

Built in 1907 as a trolley repair shop but never used as one, redesigned by Maya Lin and expanded by Andrew Berman Architect in 2014. The facade keeps signage from its 1940s crane-making years.

Founded by artists in 1928 as the Clay Club. With no permanent collection, it commissions new work and champions emerging and underrecognized artists, among them Hugo Boss Prize winners Anicka Yi and Simone Leigh.

Free. Open Thursday to Monday, noon to 6 p.m.; closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Photos for personal use only, with no flash, video or tripods. No backpacks or large bags in the galleries.

Walk the four piers, fish from the pier with its own cleaning table, and see the restored gantries and the Pepsi-Cola sign, a city landmark since 2016, against the Midtown skyline.

Twelve acres on the East River with gardens, a summer mist fountain, playgrounds and ball courts. The Empire State Building and the United Nations sit across the water.

It keeps the freight waterfront in view: restored gantries that once loaded railcar floats and barges, and the 1940 Pepsi-Cola sign from the bottling plant here, reset within feet of its first spot in 2009.

Open daily, dawn to dusk. Leashed dogs on paved paths and plazas or in the two dog runs, never on grass, piers or courts. No grills or cooking. A ferry stop is in the park.

Walk out on the 30-foot-high cantilevered overlook, find Nobuho Nagasawa’s Luminescence, concrete moon discs that glow at night, and join a free paddle from the Queens Landing Boathouse, late spring to fall.

A central green, a playground, sand volleyball and a riverside promenade face the Manhattan skyline. The park wraps around to Newtown Creek, with nearly 1.5 acres of new wetlands.

Built by the city on former industrial waterfront, designed by SWA/Balsley and Weiss/Manfredi. Phase one opened in August 2013, phase two in June 2018, with wetlands and design meant to address stormwater and rising seas.

Run by NYC Parks. The Hunters Point Parks Conservancy leads nature walks here in spring and fall and an annual bulb planting. A ferry stop is in the park.

Mole de Piaxtla, chicken and rice in a mole of dried chiles, almonds, raisins, plantain, sesame and chocolate; chicken enchiladas with the same mole; cochinito chiapaneco, guajillo-marinated pork ribs; tres leches cake.

In 2018 Time Out described a 40-seat, white-painted room hung with work by Queens artists, with a garden out back. The MICHELIN inspector notes the crowds out front and a room constantly abuzz.

Chef Cosme Aguilar and his brother Luis opened it in 2012 to serve family recipes from Chiapas. The restaurant says it won a MICHELIN star in 2014; Eater reports the 2023 guide dropped it.

Book on Resy through the restaurant’s site. Open weekdays from 5 p.m. and weekends from 11 a.m.; closes 10:15 p.m., or 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The site also posts a brunch menu.

Homemade pasta and old-country plates; the menu posted online lists shrimp alla Ida over linguine and baked clams. Ask for the reserve wine list, which is not online.

A big room hung with art, with a wood-burning fireplace, at 47th Avenue and Jackson Avenue. The wine list runs to hundreds of Italian, French and American bottles, with vintages back to the late 1970s.

Vincenzo and Ida Cerbone opened it on Christmas Day 1977, using the refrigerator from their apartment and pots from Ida’s bridal shower. Their children pitched in as business grew in the 1980s.

Book by phone at (718) 729-9845. Open Tuesday to Sunday: lunch Tuesday to Friday noon to 3 p.m.; dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 9 p.m., Sunday 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. Corkage is $25 a bottle.

Ceviche mixto in ají amarillo leche de tigre, then lomo saltado or ají de gallina with quail egg and pecans. Pisco sours come traditional or in five other flavors, from passion fruit to chicha.

On the corner of 48th Avenue and 11th Street, where the long-vacant Crossroads Diner was. A formal dining room leads back to a livelier bar area with high-tops.

Executive chef and owner Alejandro Rojas, from the family behind Urubamba in Jackson Heights, founded Jora in 2014. The menu runs from ceviches, causas and Afro-Peruvian anticuchos to Asian-influenced stir-fries.

Open daily from noon, until 10 p.m. Sunday to Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Some tables book on Resy; the rest are walk-in. Happy hour 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. weekdays (Friday, bar only).

Classic and house cocktails; drinks featured on the bar’s site include the American Trilogy and the Don Lockwood. It stresses fresh ingredients and its ice, and also pours sipping spirits, local beer and wine.

Dark, secluded booths in the front room and the bar in the middle, as Gothamist described it in 2013. Upstairs, Debbie’s hosts live bands and DJ sets on Friday and Saturday nights.

Opened May 1, 2009, by Milk & Honey founder Sasha Petraske with Richard Boccato and Ian Present. It is named for Dutch Kills, one of the hamlets that merged to form Long Island City in 1870.

Open Sunday to Thursday 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., Friday and Saturday 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. Debbie’s, upstairs, opens Friday and Saturday 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Events at Debbie’s are booked by email.

Rocket Fuel, the house signature: cold brew with chicory, Vermont maple and milk. Or a cortado or nitro cold brew from the classic menu.

A 19th-century building with original tin ceilings, walls from the late 1800s and French antiques. The shop opened at 300 square feet and has since tripled in size.

Sweetleaf’s very first location, opened in 2008. Founder Rich Nieto, a Queens native, set out to roast coffee that reflects New York; the company now runs cafés in Long Island City and Greenpoint.

Open Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sweetleaf’s cafés on Center Boulevard and at Queens Plaza are separate shops.

Maki and chirashi bowls from the in-house kitchen, which The Infatuation says brings out fresh sushi every half hour or so. Then browse the Japanese pantry, from soy sauce to kombu.

A small, takeout-only shop on the ground floor of a four-story building, about 800 square feet when it was fitted out in 2021. Eat at the café tables outside.

It is run by the team behind Kuroshio, a Japanese seafood wholesaler in New York, and imports its products through its own routes, working directly with producers across Japan.

The website lists no store hours, so check before you go. Online orders ship only; in-store pickup is not offered. The shop holds regional Japanese food fairs several times a year.