From: 'c > To: Subject: The Best Things to Do in New York on Weekends Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 19:04:06 +0000 The Best Things to Do in New York on Weekends Day 1: Uptown and Museum Mile Few neighborhoods evoke the feeling of having traveled back to old-world New York City quite like the Upper East Side. While its eastern edge is more popular with families and twenty-somethings looking for budget apartments, the western side— bordered by Fifth Avenue and Central Park—is full of gorgeous mansions and neighborhood institutions (shops on Madison Avenue, museums on Fifth). be remiss to skip a visit to the area, if for no other reason than everyone should visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art at least once in their lives. STAY The elegant Carlyle Hotel—an Art Deco landmark whose list of former guests includes the Kennedys, Truman Capote, and Princess Diana—is the perfect Uptown home base. Black-and-white marble floors and Goldenrod chaises fill the Dorothy Draper-designed lobby (the hotel was actually Draper's first big decorating gig), while rooms are appointed with Louis XVI furnishings, Limoge china, and bedding by Yves Delorme—not to mention plush bath robes, slippers, and pillowcases monogrammed with guest's initials. PLAY Several of Manhattan's most impressive cultural institutions can be found along a 23- block stretch of Fifth Avenue known as Museum Mile. Start your culture crawl at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is packed with enough art and antiques (from Egyptian sarcophagi to Roman portrait busts) to keep even local New Yorkers amused EFTA00543826