Our newest newsletter course shows you how.

Illustration: Millie von Platen 

Earlier this year, we launched New York Night School, a series of subscriber-only newsletter courses in which our editors and writers play professor and share their highly specific expertise. 

Good news: Our newest class is on how to be a real New Yorker, whether you’ve lived here your whole life and want to test your knowledge or you just moved to the city and are hoping to settle in as quickly as possible. Our How to Be a New Yorker course is here to help you learn how to be a discerning diner, get your most annoying errands done painlessly, have a good time, and more.

Check out the syllabus below, and subscribe today to join the class. You'll also be able to take our How to Write course, plus get unlimited access to other subscriber-exclusive newsletters, play our entire games archive, and browse every single New York Magazine site — the Cut, Vulture, Intelligencer, Grub Street, Curbed, and the Strategist — online and via our new mobile app.

Week One: Be a Discerning Diner

The best place for a Brooklyn first date, the trick to getting a table at Via Carota, and the tourist institutions that are actually worth it.

Week Two: Getting Things Done

The DMV with the fastest line, Gay Talese's typewriter-repair shop, and how chefs get the best tomatoes.

Week Three: How to Have a Good Time 

The scariest seat on the Cyclone, the best spot for outdoor day drinking, and where to find some quiet when you need it.

Week Four: Get Around and Get Home 

Beat the crowds at Grand Central, spot a rent-stabilized apartment, and take the ferry as much as possible.

Week Five: How to Pay Less Than Full Price 

Wholesale smoked salmon, $3 haircuts, and the many perks of the IDNYC card.

Week Six: 14 More Great Tips From Notable New Yorkers 

Michael Musto’s favorite bike route, Susan Miller’s go-to shoemaker, and a dinner-party shopping list from Ghetto Gastro’s Jon Gray.