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Mercer Labs is a museum of art and technology at Church and Dey Streets near the World Trade Center, in part of the former Century 21 store. Created by Roy Nachum and Michael Cayre and opened in 2024, it has fifteen rooms of projections, holograms of suspended LEDs, spatial sound and a robotic arm that draws pictures in sand.

One World Observatory occupies floors 100 to 102 of One World Trade Center, the 541-metre tower designed by David Childs of SOM that opened in 2014 on the site of the destroyed Twin Towers. Since 2015 SkyPod elevators carry visitors up in under a minute to a glass-walled floor with views over Manhattan, the harbor and New Jersey.

Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre waterfront park on the Brooklyn side of the East River, laid out by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates on former industrial piers. It runs 1.3 miles from Atlantic Avenue past the Brooklyn Bridge to the Manhattan Bridge, with lawns, playgrounds and sports fields on Piers 1 to 6.

Museum of Illusions New York is an interactive museum at Eighth Avenue and West 14th Street with more than 60 exhibits on optical illusions, perception and the brain. It opened in 2018 as part of a chain founded in Zagreb in 2015, inside the Neoclassical New York County National Bank Building of 1907, a city landmark.

The High Line is a 2.33 km elevated park on a disused freight railway viaduct on Manhattan's West Side, running from Gansevoort Street through Chelsea to 34th Street. It opened in stages from 2009, designed by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro with plantings by Piet Oudolf, and keeps lengths of the old rails among the plants.

Bryant Park is a 3.9-hectare park in Midtown Manhattan between 40th and 42nd Streets, behind the main building of the New York Public Library. Named in 1884 after the poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, it was rebuilt in the 1930s and restored in 1988–1992, and has a central lawn, tree-lined terraces, movable chairs and a carousel.

Summit One Vanderbilt is an observation deck on the top floors of One Vanderbilt, a 427-metre skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox beside Grand Central Terminal. Opened in October 2021, it spans floors 91 to 93 and combines mirrored rooms designed by Kenzo Digital, glass balconies that protrude from the facade, an outdoor terrace and glass lifts on the outside of the tower.

Spyscape is an interactive museum about espionage at 928 Eighth Avenue in Midtown, with interiors designed by David Adjaye. Its galleries cover code-breaking, deception, surveillance, hacking and special operations, and visitors take tests of skills such as observation and risk-taking that end with a spy profile. A separate game zone, SPYGAMES, adds physical challenges.

The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial cable car that crosses the East River between East 60th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan and Roosevelt Island. Opened in 1976 as a temporary link and rebuilt in 2010, its two red cabins travel about 960 metres beside the Queensboro Bridge, with views of the river and Midtown.

Central Park is an 843-acre (341 ha) landscaped park in the middle of Manhattan, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after their Greensward Plan of 1858 and completed in 1876. Its meadows, lakes, woodland paths and bridges, the Ramble, the Reservoir and Bethesda Terrace lie between the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side.