An excerpt from The Big Picture’s NonGuidebook Version of What to Do (and Not Do) in NYC [via Kottke]:

5.  Do a bunch of local New York things: Hang out in Central Park, Explore Brooklyn, wear black, enjoy the free WiFi in Bryant Park (use the bathroom there—nice). Attend a lecture at the 92nd Street Y, go to Chinatown in Queens. Buy junk at a street fair, and eat street meat (don’t ask). Have a cigar at the Grand Havana Room (members only). Catch an author speak at a Barnes & Noble (use the bathroom while you are there).

Spend a weekend at Fire Island or the Hamptons (make arrangements first). Go to a designer sample sale. Do the NYT crossword puzzle on mass transit. Jog around the reservoir in Central Park. Go to a Woody Allen retrospective. See the Mets at Shea.

The ultimate New Yorker activity? Buy the Sunday NY Times late Saturday night; skim it, then lounge around early Sunday morning, with the paper—and a pot of strong coffee—in bed Sunday morning. Heavenly!

We agree! Check out upcoming lectures here.

Music at the Y is now music on the air. 92nd Street Y and WNYC 93.9 FM have collaborated to present a ten-week series of concert radio broadcasts on Saturday nights at 8pm, from April 26-June 28.

WNYC’s Sara Fishko and the Y’s Hanna Arie-Gaifman went digging into the Y’s audio archives to bring us the greatest live performances from the stage of the Kaufmann Concert Hall. Curated and hosted by Fishko, the series combines elements from different concerts over the past few years, designed to highlight a particular theme or performer with the radio listener in mind.

Artists include: Tokyo String Quartet, Ensemble Wien-Berlin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Steven Isserlis, the Assad brothers, András Schiff, Marc-André Hamelin and many more.

Listen to past episodes and find out more information on all the programs at www.92Y.org/wnyc