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
Daffy’s
135 E.57th St. (betw. Lexington and Park Aves.)
Tel: 212-376-4477

Subway 4/5/6 to 59th St.

WHY
The store’s apt slogan is “clothing bargains for millionaires”. Agents from around the world ensure a constant fresh supply.

WHEN
Avoid the lunchtime and 5:00-6:00 PM crowds. Daffy’s stocks current season’s styles.— no sweaters in mid-summer.

WHAT
ABC Carpet and Home
888 Broadway (at E.19th St.)
Tel: 212-473-3000

Subway N/R, 4/5/6 to Union Square

WHY
Simply stunning displays. A real New York great. The antique and the brand-new, the useful and the decorative. Big furniture to small bibelots.

WHEN
After lunch in one of the restaurants in Union Square. Near Christmas for the atmosphere. When you’re just fed up with your house.

WHAT
Woodbury Common Premium Outlets
498 Red Apple Court, Central Valley, NY 10917.
Tel: 845-928-4000

Woodbury Common is about an hour north of the city. The best way to get there: SHORT LINE BUS CO., Port Authority Bus Terminal, 8th Ave. and 42nd St., 2nd Floor. Tel: 212-736-4700. Buses leave at 7:15, 8:45, 10:00, 11:30, 12:15 and 14:45; the last bus back to Manhattan is at 21:26. So get going: pick up a map of the complex (unless you've already downloaded one from www.premiumoutlets.com ), head for the food court and mark out the have-to-have places. Planning and having a strategy marks the tourist from the serious shopper.

WHY
Adidas, Burberry and Chanel to Sony, TAG Heuer and Tod's (yes, of course there's a Ferragamo outlet). As we say in NYPages, this is your chance to turn mere cash into cashmere.

WHEN
When you still have stamina and when you still have cash.

WHAT
Museum Stores.
Museum of Modern Art, 11 W.53rd St.
Tel: 212-767-1050;

Morgan Library, 29 E.36th St.
Tel: 212-685-0610;

Free entry and 10% discount in the Morgan Library's gift shop to NYCard holders.

Transit Museum, Grand Central Terminal
Tel: 212-878-0106;

Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green
Tel: 212-668-6624.

WHY
Why buy cheap and nasty souvenirs made thousands of miles away, when New York’s museum stores sell such innovative things of high quality.

WHEN
Just before leaving town or whenever you’re in the museum in question.

WHAT
J and R
31 Park Row (betw. Ann and Beekman Sts.)
Tel: 212-238-9100

Subway 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall

WHY
An astonishing array of everything electrical, from computers to cameras. The best and most reliable store of its kind in town.

Get a $10 discount on any purchase over $100 with your NYCard

WHEN
After a visit to the South Street Seaport and a ride on The Beast speedboat has shaken your wallet loose.