Build Your Own NYC Romantic Comedy

You’re having a silent, miserable meal with your current partner, who is clearly wrong for you. But at least it’s at one of New York City’s great restaurants. Which one?

Masa, where the only thing rawer than the omakase is your feeling of heartbreak

Le Bernardin, where the waiter uses one of those fancy metal devices to scrape the crumbs from your table…yet you’ve never felt crummier

Standing at Joe’s Pizza, where the cheese stretching on your slice reminds you that your patience for one another is wearing thin

A hot dog cart…and you get mustard on your shirt. Ugh! What a disaster!

There he or she is: your new love interest! There’s immediately a spark as you meet cute. But where, and how?

Bumping into each other as you pass in Times Square

Reaching for the same obscure used book at The Strand in Union Square

Arguing as one of you roots for the Yankees and the other for the Red Sox in the Yankee Stadium bleachers

Making fun of the same busker in Washington Square Park

Your friend group, full of colorful supporting characters about whom we aren’t going to learn much, is giving you bad advice about how to pursue [name of your new crush]. The conversation takes place:

Over a basketball game at West Fourth Street

As you receive a relaxing spa treatment at Tracie Martyn

While enjoying some “brewskies” and video games at Barcade on Astor Place

During an outdoor workout running around Prospect Park

With your ex out of the way, you and your new guy/gal partake in a montage out on the town. You hear a song and it becomes “your song.” Remember this for later. Where do you go?

To meet the exotic animals at the Bronx Zoo

To taste the Italian food at the downtown Eataly

To ride paddleboats, horses and bicycles in Central Park

To gaze at the remnants of the World’s Fair in Flushing, including the old New York State Pavilion (but, we must stress, not to trespass)

There’s been a terrible misunderstanding, and now you two are in a big fight. Where did it happen?

The TKTS line, over which show to see

The subway platform, arguing whether to hop on the arriving local train or wait for the express

The Herald Square Macy’s, over the relative merits of metal versus wooden escalators

The New York Public Library—it’s a whisper fight!

Sad and lonely, you pine for your lost love. That song from before plays, but this time it’s melancholy because of what’s happened. You’re going to need a good view for your forlorn gazing, like the one from:

The Empire State Building Observatory

One World Observatory

Top of the Rock Observatory

The deck of the Staten Island Ferry

You’re reunited and, as the credits roll, we’re pretty sure you’re going to be together forever and enjoy a lot of great NYC attractions that no one should miss, including some you can save on with an attraction pass. Where’s that last dramatic shot?

Brooklyn Heights Promenade

Coney Island, right in front of the Cyclone

The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden

Just at a Nuts 4 Nuts cart. Man, you guys both love Nuts 4 Nuts. And you know what? You’re nuts for each other. Awww.