Anyone who has ever arrived in New York from somewhere else – and stayed to become a New Yorker – can agree on one inexorable truth: there’s no place better to break out of your chrysalis and express your personal style. This city rewards reinvention; in fact, the only consistent ethos here is that you should be a little different. New York will even offer up its most iconic spots to set your stage: Plot the great American novel over a street cart gyro on the steps of the New York Public Library; plan your Lebanese-Cuban restaurant revolution while browsing the farmers market in Grand Central Station; envision your fashion empire from the vertiginous heights of the Empire State Building.