New York for The Romantics: a Friday-to-Monday weekend

Brass plaques for Dylan Thomas, Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith beside the door of the old artists' hotel; stand under the iron balconies as the street lamps come on.

Pierpont Morgan's three-tiered study with its Gutenberg Bible, free on Friday evenings; the rotunda is lovely in the lamplight and nearly empty by eight.

Candles on bare wood in a room of old bottles and antiques; the pasta and the olive oil are the point, and the walk back through NoHo is short.

A hundred and fifty years of Gothic gatehouse, ponds and monuments, with the harbour and the skyline from Battle Hill; the monk parakeets nest in the arch.

Vermeer's Mistress and Maid and Bellini's St Francis in a Gilded Age mansion; the garden court is the best place to sit for two.

A 1937 bistro revived with its red banquettes intact: oeufs mayonnaise, a duck for two and a long wine list; the splurge of the weekend.

The Unicorn Tapestries and the Cuxa cloister reassembled on a hill above the Hudson; walk the herb garden, then sit by the fountain.

A quiet hillside garden of heather, roses and benches looking over the Hudson to the Palisades; stroll down to the river as the light turns.

A bar with Ludwig Bemelmans' murals and a piano trio in the corner; take a table for two and walk home through the park.

The park's only formal garden, French, Italian and English in three parts, with fountains and clipped crabapples; nearly empty in the morning.

Klimt's gold portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the Woman in Gold, in a Vienna-style mansion on Museum Mile; a romantic last room.

A Viennese farewell of Sachertorte and a melange under Josef Hoffmann light fittings; a table by the window is worth the ten-minute wait.