The Best Museums in New York City, From the Met to the New York Transit Museum | Condé Nast Traveler

"A jewel-box museum in a 1914 Beaux-Arts mansion, this entire space is dedicated to 19th-century German and Austrian art and design across paintings, furniture, sculpture, photography, and manuscripts. The star is Gustav Klimt’s mesmerizing Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), acquired in 2006 for $135 million, while rotating third-level exhibits illuminate lesser-known corners of European art from the period; afterward, Café Sabarsky ranks among the city’s finer museum restaurants—order a dry riesling with schnitzel and a kaiser mélange with whichever cake suits your fancy." - Charlie Hobbs, Andrea Whittle