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Park Avenue Armory

Worth a detourUpper East Side

Beautiful building with a lot of history.

What it is

Landmark venue features avant-garde visual & performing arts in an industrial Gilded-Age interior.

Pair it with

Worth a detour or better, within a 15-minute walk. Numbers match the map.

  1. 1Society of Illustrators/MoCCA0.2 mi · $15

    Huge collection of interesting drawings.

  2. 2The Grolier Club0.3 mi · Free

    Surprising one. Lots of interesting book bindings from the last few centuries.

  3. 3MoMA0.7 mi · $28

    The other museum you can’t do in a day.

Also on the block, if you have time

Americas Society (0.1 mi, free), New York School of Interior Design Gallery (0.2 mi, free), Asia Society (0.2 mi), Bernard Museum (0.2 mi, free), Central Park Zoo (0.3 mi).

Skip The Arsenal (0.3 mi), even if you’re passing: “Looks cool from outside.”