Plan

The big museum at the top of Eastern Parkway, with the Egyptian holdings, the American period interiors and Judy Chicago's Dinner Party installed permanently on the fourth floor. General admission is a suggested contribution rather than a fixed price, so you can pay what you can and walk in. On the first Saturday of each month it stays open from five until eleven with free admission and live programming.

Wed to Sun, 11am to 6pm. Closed Mon and Tue. First Saturday of the month, also 5pm to 11pm

The gilded limestone building at the corner of Grand Army Plaza, with the bronze figures across the front and a reading floor that anyone can sit on without a card. There is an exhibition space off the lobby and a café inside. It is open until nine Monday through Thursday, which is unusual for a library and useful for an evening door.

Mon to Thu, 9am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 9am to 6pm. Sun, 1pm to 5pm

A ramen shop on Vanderbilt Avenue opened by cooks who came out of Morimoto's kitchen, doing four or five broths and a plate of kale salad that people order out of habit. No bookings. You give your name and stand outside or at the counter until a stool opens.

Mon, 5:30pm to 9pm. Tue, closed. Wed, Thu and Sun, 5:30pm to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 5:30pm to 10pm

GrowNYC's flagship Brooklyn market, set up along the northwest corner of Prospect Park every Saturday of the year. Upstate growers, a cider stand, bread, and a compost and textile drop-off at the Flatbush end. It is outdoors and it runs in January the same as it does in July.

Saturdays only, 8am to 4pm, year-round

Come in at the Grand Army Plaza entrance and the path drops you under Endale Arch, which Olmsted and Vaux built to cut off the city before it opens onto the mile-long Long Meadow. The arch was stripped back to its original banded woodwork and sandstone in a restoration finished in 2020. Past it the meadow is flat, open and full of people lying on the grass, and it runs most of the length of the park.

Park open every day, 5am to 1am

A diner on Washington Avenue that opened in 1936 as an ice cream parlor and has been run by the same family through three generations. The walls are covered in decades of accumulated stuff and someone will hand you orange slices or a coffee while you wait outside. Breakfast and lunch only, and it shuts in the afternoon.

Mon to Fri, 8am to 3pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 5pm

A beer bar on Washington Avenue with a long back yard that dogs are welcome in and a draft list in the high teens. Nobody is working the door and nobody is checking a list. It is the kind of place where the same people are there on a Tuesday at six and a Saturday at ten.

Mon to Thu, 5pm to 11pm. Fri, 3pm to 11pm. Sat and Sun, 1pm to 11pm