Best NYC Plans for a Rainy Sunday That Aren't the Couch

The couch is fine. The couch is also where the Sunday anxiety lives. There is a reason staring at the ceiling on a rainy Sunday afternoon feels oppressive: it gives your nervous system nothing to do except anticipate.

Rainy Sundays are actually perfect for a bathhouse. The weather outside makes the heat inside feel earned. The grayness makes you genuinely want to be where it is warm.

The Places

Lore Bathing Club / 676 Broadway, SoHo

A Sunday afternoon at Lore is the antithesis of the rainy Sunday couch spiral. You have a place to be. You have a ritual. You have the heat and the cold and the rest. The sound of rain outside while you are in the sauna is one of the better sensory experiences you can have in the city. You leave around 5pm or 6pm feeling like you had a whole weekend in an afternoon.

The Strategy

Get off the couch by 1pm. That is the only rule. Once you are out, the rest is easy. The decision to move is harder than the actual moving.

Lore is at 676 Broadway. Rainy Sundays are their best day.