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LARGE MUSEUMS, SPECIALTY MUSEUMS, The Astor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York's largest art museum. 
NYC'S MOST POPULAR LARGE MUSEUMS (with approximate number of yearly visitors) 1) Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (6 million visitors per year) Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street Upper East Side pay what-you-wish admission for New York State residents with ID; $25 for all others 2) American Museum of Natural History (5 million visitors per year) Central Park West at 79th St. Upper West Side free admission times: pay what you wish (planetarium, etc. is extra) 3) The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (3 million visitors per year) 11 West 53rd St. b/t 5th-6th Aves Midtown West free admission times: free on Friday nights 4:00 pm -8:00 pm. (via UNIQLO) 4) National September 11th Memorial and Museum (2 million visitors per year) 180 Greenwich Street at Cortlandt St. Financial District free admission times: limited free tickets are given out Tuesdays at 4:00 pm. (see website) 5) The Whitney Museum of American Art (The Whitney) (1.2 million visitors per year) 99 Gansevoort St. at Washington St. Meatpacking DIstrict free admission times: pay-what-you-wish on Saturday nights. 6) Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum (1 million visitors per year) Pier 86, 12th Ave. at 46th Street Midtown West free admission times: no discounted times 6) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (800,000 visitors per year) 1071 Fifth Ave b/t 88th - 89th Streets Upper East Side free admission times: pay what you wish Sat night 5:45-7:15 7) Brooklyn Museum (326,000 visitors per year) 200 Eastern Parkway at Washington Ave Prospect Park, Brooklyn free admission times: free 6-10 Thursday (via Squarespace); also 1st Saturdays 5-11 (via Target) 8) The Frick Collection (280,000 visitors per year) 1 East 70th Street at 5th Avenue Upper East Side free admission times: free Wednesdays 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm 9) New York Historical Society (250,000 visitors per year) 170 Central Park West b/t West 76th and West 77th Sts. free admission times: free 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Friday Nights 10)Museum of the City of New York (250,000 visitors per year) 1220 Fifth Ave b/t 103rd-104th Sts. Upper East Side free admission times: pay what you wish admission, but suggested $18 adult 11) The Morgan Library (200,000 visitors per year) 225 Madison Avenue b/t East 36th and East 37th Sts. Midtown East free admission times: free admission Fridays 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm. 12) Neue Gallery (150,000 visitors per year) 1048 FIfth Avenue b/t East 85th and East 86th St. Upper East Side free admission times: free admission on the first Friday of each month from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. 13) Rubin Museum (100,000 visitors per year) 150 West 17th Street Chelsea free admission times: free Friday Night 6:00 pm. to 10:00 pm. (seasonal) The Interior of the Guggenheim Museum. 
NYC MUSEUMS WITH MODERN and/or POP ART The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art The Whitney Museum (Soho) The Met Bruer The Brooklyn Museum The Guggenheim Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art The Studio Museum of Harlem NYC SPECIALTY MUSEUMS BY MAIN SUBJECT 9/11 - National September 11 Memorial & Museum Aircraft Carrier - Intrepid Air and Space Museum Anne Frank - Anne Frank Center Armstrong, Louis Louis Armstrong House Museum, Queens Architecture - Center for Architecture Army, U.S. - Harbor Defense Museum, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn Art, Asian - Rubin Museum of Art, Chelsea Art, Central Asia - Nicholas Roerich Museum, Upper Manhattan Art, Japanese - Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, Queens Art, Contemporary The New Museum of Contemporay Ary Art, Contemporary - Dia Center for the Arts: The New York Earth Room" and "The Broken Kilometer: Art, Contemporary - PS 1 Contemporary Art Center LIC Queens Art, Psychiatric Patient - The Living Museum at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center African American Culture - Schoemburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem Barge Waterfront (Barge) Museum (Red Hook, Brooklyn) Boats - South Street Seaport Museum Books (constant exhibits) - New York Public Library Carnegie Hall (history of) - Carnegie Hall Caruso, Enrico Enrico Caruso Museum Chinese - Chinese Scholar's Garden, Staten Island Chinese - Asia Society Chinese, House - Chinese Scholar's Garden, Staten Island Chinese - Museum of the Chinese in America, LES/Chinatown Comic Art - Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Coney Island - Coney Island Museum/Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Wall of Fame Fashion - Museum at FIT, Chelsea Finance - Museum of American Fnance, Lower Manhattan Firemen - New York City Fire Museum, West Soho Food & Drink - Museum of Food & Drink, Williamsburg (62 Bayard St) Garibaldi - Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Staten Island Hispanic - Hispanics Society of America, Upper Manhattan Illustration - Museum of American Illustration Indian - Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian National Italian - Italian American Museum Little Italy Japan - Japan Society, Midtown Manhattan Jazz - National Jazz Museum in Harlem Jewish - Museum at Eldridge Street, Lower East Side Jet Planes - Intrepid Air and Space Museum Judaica -Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanuel Judaica - Museum of the Hebrew Home for the Aged (Riverdale) Maritime - Maritime Industry Museum at Fort Schuyler, SUNY Maritine College Masonic Temple - Masonic Hall and Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library and Museum of the Grand Lodge Maps - Map Room of the NYPL, Midtown Manhattan Medicine NY Academy of Medicine, Upper Manhattan Money - American Numismatic Society Money - New York Federal Reserve Bank Money - Museum of American Finance Music - Carnegie Hall Music - Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Music - Louis Armstrong House Museum, Queens New York - Museum of the City of New York , Upper Manhattan Photography - ICP Museum (International Center of Photography)(Bowery) Police - New York City Police Museum Planetarium - Natural History Museum Publishing - Grolier Club, Midtown Manhattan Poetry - Poets House, Lower Manhattan Roosevelt, Teddy -Theodore Roosevelt's Birthplace Scandanavia - Scandinavia House, Midtown Manhattan Sex - Museum of Sex: (233 Fifth Ave) Skyscrapers -The Skyscraper Museum. Lower Manhattan Staten Island -Staten Island Museum (arts and science exhibits) Subways, Buses - New York City Transit Museum, Downtown Brooklyn Space Shuttle - Intrepid Air and Space Museum Submarine - Intrepid Air and Space Museum Tenement (Life) - Lower East Side Tenement Museum Theater (constant exhibitions) - New York Library for the Performing Arts - Lincoln Center Track and Field National Track and Field Hall of Fame, in the Armory, Washington Heights Ukranian - Ukrainian Museum U.S. History - Faunces Tavern Museum Washington, George - Faunces Tavern Museum (teeth, hair) OTHER MUSEUMS: Restored houses: Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island Dyckman Farmhouse, Upper Manhattan Merchant's House Museum, East Village Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden Edgar Allen Poe Cottage Queens Country Farm Museum (Miscellaneous smaller specialty museums) NY Academy of Medicine, Upper Manhattan Horticultural Society of New York Corning Gallery at Steuben Glass Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaical at Temple EmanuEl National Museum of Catholic Art and History at the Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame'Nicholas Roerich Museum Museum of Art and Origins National Track and Field Hall of Fame Judaica - Museum of the Hebrew Home for the Aged 258th Field Artillery Armory (large defunct armory) Maritime Industry Museum at SUNY The Living Museum at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center Waterfront Museum (Red Hook Boat) Enrico Caruso Museum Harbor Defense Museum Staten Island Museum Garibaldi Meucci Museum THE MOST POPULAR PARKS, ZOOS, BOTANICAL GARDENS, AND AQUARIUMS PARKS • Central Park (2 .5 miles long by .5 mile wide/ 843 acres/ 42 million visitors per year) • The High Line (West Village/Chelsea) (1.45 mile long / 8 million visitors per year) • Washington Square Park (Greenwich Village) (9.7 acres) • Union Square Park (Flatiron) (9 acres) • Madison Square Park (Midtown South) (6.2 acres) • Bryant Park (Midtown/42nd Street) (9.6 acres) • Riverside Park (4 miles long/ 266 acres)(Upper West Side) • Battery Park City Esplanade (2.5 miles) (Western Financial Disrict) • Prospect Park (Central Brooklyn) (A little bigger than half the size of Central Park) NYC ZOOS (by size) • Bronx Zoo (Bronx)(265 acres) • Prospect Park Zoo (Central Brooklyn) (12 acres) • Staten Island Zoo (Central Staten Island) (8 acres) • Central Park Zoo (Between Upper East/West Sides) (6.5 acre) • Queens Zoo (Flushing, Queens) (5 acres) AQUARIUMS • NYC Aquarium (Coney Island )(14 acres) BOTANICAL GARDENS (by size) • Bronx Botanical Garden (250 acres) • Brooklyn Botanical Garden (52 acres)(note: has cool Japanese garden and pond) • Queens Botanical Garden (39 acres) • Staten Island Botanical Garden (aka Snug Harbor Botanical Garden) (has various gardens scattered in its 83 acres, including 10 acres of wetlands; note: also has cool NY Chinese Scholars Garden, a replica of a large Chinese house with pond) NYC ISLANDS TO VISIT • Roosevelt Island (2 miles long / Access by 4.5 minute-tram Tramway Car at 59th and 2nd Ave or F Train; several parks; restaurants; small lighthouse) • Governor's Island (172 acres / Colonial Revival and Greek Revival architecture; fort; biking; hammocks; long slides on "Slide Hill"; small mountain acceses by rock stairway with close views of the Statue of Liberty; playgrounds; Season - May to October.) LIGHTHOUSES • Little Red Lighthouse (in Ft. Washington Park) • Roosevelt Island Lighthouse (in Lighthouse Park, Roosevelt Island, north) UNIQUE "FOREIGN" SPACES TO VISIT in NEW YORK • Brooklyn Botanical Garden - Japanese Garden • Staten Island - Chinese Scholar's House and Gardens • Met Museum - Astor Court (Indoor Chinese House Garden) • Met Museum - Temple of Dendur (Egyptian Temple) • Central Park - Belvedere Castle (Whimsicle miniature castle on a small hill in Central Park) • Central Park - Swedish Cottage (Contains a marionette theater) • Queens - Ganesh Hindu Temple (45-57 Bowne Street, Flushing, Queens) (The first ttraditional Hindu Temple in America) 
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