High Fives are our editors' top-five picks of things to do, see, and experience in New York City. Whatever you're thirsting after, the categories and descriptions will help you extract the sweetest juice from the Big Apple.

Our High Fives categories are:

Five Must-See Attractions

Five Must-Visit Museums

If You Only Have 48 Hours: Five Must-Do's

With Kids? Five Things You Can't Miss

Five Shopping Musts

WHAT
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
90 Orchard St. (at Broome St.)

Tel: 212-431-0233

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Subway: F to Delancey St.

WHY
The American dream started here for millions. After the film and tour, give yourself time to explore this neighborhood’s shopping bargains and (going somewhere?) designers.

WHEN
Book ahead or show up at 11:00 am to reserve for tours that start at 1:00 PM Use the extra time for shopping and lunch at Katz’s Deli on Houston Street.

WHAT
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
Pier 86, West 46th St. (at 12th Ave.)
Tel: 212-245-2533

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Get to 42nd St. and catch the M42 bus to Pier 83.

WHY
Aircraft carrier, fighters, submarine, space capsule, flight simulator — all yours to climb over and poke at. The Intrepid saw distinguished service in WWII.

WHEN
A sunny day. Go early to avoid the long lines that build up for the submarine.

WHAT
Morgan Library
29 E.36th St. (at Madison Ave.)
Tel: 212-685-0610

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Subway 6 to 33rd St. or stroll down Madison Ave. from Grand Central Terminal.

WHY
JP Morgan collected like a Renaissance prince and you’ll see Michaelangelo, Durer, not one but three Gutenberg Bibles and the original manuscript of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

WHEN
Any day but Monday. And take advantage of the glazed-over courtyard for lunch or a snack.

WHAT
Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave. (at E.88th St.)
Tel: 212-423-3500

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Subway 4/5/6 to 86th St.; Buses M1/M2/M3/M4/M5 up Madison Ave. to 86th St.

WHY
This spiral gallery is one of the most famous structures in the world and a great setting for its first-rate exhibitions.

WHEN
Monday. Many museums are closed on the first day of the working week but the Gug knows the modern muse labors too and can afford no rest.

WHAT
Museum of Jewish Heritage
18 First Place (at Battery Place)
Tel: 212-968-1800

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Subway 4/5 to Bowling Green

WHY
As a gateway to America — a refuge to millions — New York is the ideal place to remember how humanity can lose its way but how hope is never fully lost.

WHEN
A clear day, when you can admire the stunning panorama of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor from the top floor. Closed Saturdays.