A guide to great places near The Mark New York
A slice of Italy on Madison Ave, come here for your sweet tooth fix. Try the Sant Ambroeus - chocolate mousse cake with a chocolate custard center.
50 m from hotel
1000 Madison Ave
At the only place where Bemelman’s art work is publicly displayed, Tony has a martini saying “a room like this calls for a classic.” As seen on Travel Channel’s The Layover with Anthony Bourdain.
84 m from hotel
35 E 76th St
Café Boulud does quite the elegant breakfast and brunch. - Inspector
102 m from hotel
20 E 76th St
Banana Mille Feuille: This Upper East Side high-end bakery describes this as "a thousand leaves. Puff pastry baked and layered with fresh cream custard and fresh bananas dusted with icing sugar."
102 m from hotel
41 E 78th St
Created in 1959 by Jose de Creeft (1884-1982), this bronze sculpture features characters from the 1865 Lewis Carroll story‚ "Alice in Wonderland."
265 m from hotel
Central Park
Good for special occasions and dates, this vegan restaurant is good enough to make even the grizzliest of carnivores rethink their eating habits. Definitely try the Seitan Piccata.
396 m from hotel
154 E 79th St
Hanging out on the Met steps is a New York tradition, and billionaire David Koch has pledged "at least $10 million" to renovate the fountains outside the museum.
430 m from hotel
1000 5th Ave
Home to some of New York's most famous concerts. Diana Ross literally singing in the rain, Simon & Garfunkel, Garth Brooks and Dave Matthews Band have all played Central Park.
0.9 km from hotel
59th St to 110th St
Check out Julie Mehretu's exhibition, "Grey Area," her representation of post-war Berlin in which the dynamism of urban life confronts decay and change. It's open through October 6, 2010.
0.9 km from hotel
1071 5th Ave
Dedicated in 1985, this 2.5-acre area of the park is a memorial to musician John Lennon, who was murdered nearby on December 8, 1980.
1.0 km from hotel
Central Park West
Check out the big new exhibit on Abstract Expressionism running from October 3, 2010, to April 25, 2011. Virtually all of the art — 300 works by 30 artists — comes from the museum's own collection.
1.9 km from hotel
11 W 53rd St
Get here fast because the museum is moving downtown to the Meatpacking District. Their new six-story, 195,000-square-foot building will be designed by Renzo Piano and cost $680 million.
5.5 km from hotel
99 Gansevoort St
