32 Get over the Brooklyn Bridge. For panoramic views of midtown Manhattan to rival Brooklyn’s finest, stroll the Pulaski Bridge (11th St. and Borden St.), which connects Greenpoint and Long Island City.

33 Play bocce. At the Istria Sport Club (28-09 Astoria Blvd., Astoria; 718-728-3181), members bond over bocce and old Italian card games like tresette and briskula, and the restaurant has attracted Mario Batali and Lidia Bastianich. You must be of Istrian descent to be a member, but anyone can drop by to throw a few balls.

34 Flash back to your childhood— or your father’s. Remember life before video games? Revell model planes, Estes rockets, Lionel train sets, slot cars . . . All these totems of a simpler time can still be found at Nagengast Hobbies (68-02 Fresh Pond Rd., Ridgewood; 718-821-0958), a 59-year-old family-owned toy store that’s one of the last holdouts against electronic games.

35 Soak up Queens noir. In the off-season, Aqueduct racetrack is just another tatty outpost of a dying sport. In winter, the so-called Big A becomes a phantasma of low-level need and greed. To fill the state’s insatiable coffers, less-than-classy horses run on a special winterized track in front of perhaps 3,000 gray-faced, desperate plungers. It’s the perfect down-and-out setting for a noir novel.

36 Kick back in the hood. You’ll find no finer example of that endangered urban species, the bona fide neighborhood tavern, than Divers Cove (29-01 Francis Lewis Blvd., Bayside; 718-352-9631), a convivial, 50-year-old corner saloon that still sports the classic neon-and-aluminum bar sign outside. Strangers are a rarity, but if you’re quick with your pleases and thank-yous, you’ll instantly earn the moniker “buddy” or “darling” or “sweetheart.” A buck-fifty buys an insanely cold frosted mug of Rheingold and, on game days, entry into the inner sanctum of obsessive, pure-bred, all-weather, lifelong Mets fans.

Rizzo's.

37 Eat real pizza. While the thick-and-doughy school of Sicilian pizza reigns supreme in Manhattan, the opposing thin-and-crisp camp still has a foothold in the outer boroughs. Brooklyn is thin-Sicilian country, to be sure, but the holy grail of this rarefied style is at Rizzo’s (30-13 Steinway St., Astoria; 718-721-9862). Sophisticated restraint shows in a minimal toss of mozzarella and a flick of parmigiana and Romano, which allows the zingy tomato sauce to shine through. And the crust is perfect: exceptionally light and tender, about a quarter-inch thick, with a crunchy, golden raised edge.

Welcome to Sunnyside.

38 Say hello to Sunnyside. The cheery Art Deco sign (46th St. and Queens Blvd.) that announces the Sunnyside neighborhood to the world is in a state of disrepair, but that somehow adds to its charm.

39 Nosh on knishes. Gray’s Papaya’s Recession Special has nothing on the Classic at 53-year-old Knish Nosh (100-30 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills; 718-897-5554): one Hebrew National frank in a blanket, one knish (potato, meat, kasha, broccoli, spinach, or mushroom), and a soda, $4.75.

40 Stare industrial decay in the face. Fools imagine the real view of the city is from the arching roadway of the Kosciuszko Bridge. But true New Yorkers know what’s below is what really counts. The ole Koz is one of the most beat-up stretches of road in the city, and a view of the ancient, rusting pilings (best seen from Calvary Cemetery below) is a true dystopic freak-out.

41 Serve on the last grass courts in New York. Rushing the net at the West Side Tennis Club (1 Tennis Pl., Forest Hills; 718-268-2300) is like playing catch on Yankee Stadium’s center field: You share the turf with history. When the U.S. Open was played here, the grass courts were graced by Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, and Chris Evert. Now, in exchange for a hefty annual membership fee ($3,169 for an adult), players can cool their heels in the vast 1914 Tudor-style clubhouse after a few leisurely sets.

42 Set-design your apartment. Those who style The Sopranos and Law & Order know that The Furniture Market (22-08 Astoria Blvd., Astoria; 718-545-3935) offers an eclectic mix of furniture, from turn-of-the-last-century antiques to high-end Drexel and Thomasville modern pieces.

43 Feel Zen. The recently renovated Noguchi Museum (32-37 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City; 718-204-7088) is one of the city’s most soothing art experiences. The airy sculpture garden flanked by birch trees and ivy, the breeze coming off the East River, and the trickling fountains make the case for Isamu Noguchi’s belief in useful abstraction.

44 Get in on the ground floor. Real-estate visionaries are spending $500,000 and up on the Mathews Model Flats, three-story structures built from 1908 onward throughout western Queens as a response to the shoddy tenement housing of the 1800s. Faced with two-toned yellow-and-brown Kreischer bricks from Staten Island, the flats included amenities unheard of at the time for working-class housing, including dumbwaiters, skylights, and windows in every room.