*This list was put together by about a dozen New Yorkers who LOVE community experiences. We wish we were gifted this the moment we moved to NYC (buuuut, the journey to find cool things like this was pretty damn fun) 💌

This is meant to help spread the word about some of the cool, sometimes cozy, and sorta hidden gems we’ve found or heard about over the years. All of them are public spaces/events.*

MUSIC 🎶

• Sofar Sounds
• Candlelight concerts
• Soundshop

ARTS & CRAFTS 🎨

• Happy Medium
• RecCreate Collective
• ArtsClub
• Figure Drawing @ Brooklyn Loft
• Art Gurl

COMEDY 😆

• St. Marks Place
• New York Comedy Club
• The Stand

FOOD / COOKING 🧑‍🍳

• Produce Parties
• Sur La Table
• Hudson Table
• Dinner with Friends
• That Dinner Thing
• Off the Record Supper Club
• Bedford Cheese Classes
• Murray’s Cheese Classes
• & the Table
• Weak Ties, Strong Bonds

ANIMALS 🐈

• Boris and Horton Dog Cafe
• Meow Parlour Cat Cafe

CONVERSATIONS 💬

• InterIntellect
• Peoplehood

SPAS 🧖‍♀️

• Aire Baths
• Bathhouse
• Sojo
• World Spa
• The Well
• Othership

EVENT SPACES WITH, WELL, EVENTS 🎈

• New Women Space
• Lightning Society
• HerWorkplace
• Bat Haus
• Pioneer Works
• 57 Grand
• Fabrik

WRITING / STORIES / POETRY ✍️

• Bowery Poetry Cafe
• Generation Women
• Nuyorican
• Journaling Classes w/ Emily Chertow
• StoryTell
• Poetry Nights with Lauren and Ross
• Creative Mornings
• The Strangers Project

BOOKS 📚

• The Strand
• Book Club Bar
• B&N Union Square
• Books Are Magic
• Reading Rhythms

PERFORMING ARTS 🎭

• Dixon Place
• Flea Theater
• La MaMa
• The Brick
• The Lonely Artists Salon

MOVEMENT 💃

• Daybreaker
• Mister Sundays
• Hot honey Sundays
• 5 Rhythms
• Gaia Music Collective
• Pure Joy
• Good Move
• Joy Flow
• City Girls Who Walk
• No More Lonely Runs
• Friends of Friends

RETREATS/TRIPS NEAR NYC 🏔️

• Third Nature
• Friends Rent a Mountain

TEA/COFFEE ☕️

• Kristina Clark’s tea experiences
• Tea Set with Soup: Meditate & Learn

• Psst—reminder this is a collective effort to share cool experiences with other friends in NYC, these experiences haven’t been endorsed or vetted by all of the folks who contributed to this list.

** If something is missing from this list that you think should be added, please email Taylor Harrington @ [email protected] 🚀 We’d love to keep growing it.