Visit the cafe where Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed dined weekly

“New York is so many intersecting worlds,” muses Laurie Anderson, performance artist, musician and pop icon. “There are probably 40 separate scenes — electropop, quartets — that you could live inside one of those circles and never meet musicians outside of it.”

And so, though she and Lou Reed lived in this city for decades, it wasn’t until a 1992 concert in Munich that their circles finally intersected, and from there they were inseparable until his death in 2013. Married in 2008, they shared a place in the West Village and a piano-playing dog named Lolabelle; they even led Seders together at the Knitting Factory — though the Illinois-born Anderson, 67, calls herself “Swedish/Evangelical/Baptist/whatever.”

She and choreographer Bill T. Jones are curating New York Live Arts’ Live Ideas Fest, an array of film screenings, panel discussions and musical performances, April 15-19; details at http://newyorklivearts.org/liveideas/. This is Anderson’s eclectic New York.

1. Irish Hunger Memorial, Vesey Street and North End Avenue

“This is a little chunk of Ireland that was imported to New York. It’s a beautiful Irish kind of moor. For several years after it was built, [Lou and I would] walk down there every Thanksgiving after dinner, and think of people who came here with nothing. It’s also a beautiful walk when it’s cloudy, rainy and drizzly — Irish weather. We went there with Salman Rushdie once and he corrected [the memorial’s statements] about British parliamentary procedure. The monument closed for a while, and they corrected that.”

2. Carnegie Hall, 57th Street at Seventh Avenue

“It’s not really tricked out for amplified sound, exactly, but sounds really full and beautiful when electronics are there. I have memories of Allen Ginsberg reading there, and of the big annual Tibet House benefit Phil [Glass] does. He chooses young performers as well, and I remember meeting Lady Gaga [above] there before anybody knew who she was, and thinking that she was a really interesting musician.”

3. The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th Street

“That’s where I grew up as an artist. It was the late ’70s, and most of the people I knew at that time were just starting out in a self-conscious way: people doing video and sculpture and music. You could go to the Kitchen and see 50 people you knew every night — your local scene. There was David Byrne [right] and Eric Bogosian and Brian Eno and Phil [Glass]. If you needed a keyboard player, you could pick one up. It was a very mobile music scene. No concrete bands, just moving around and trying things out.”

4. Russ & Daughters Appetizers, 179 Houston Street

“Lou and I went to Russ & Daughters every week — the horseradish cream cheese is insanely good! Last year, they opened this cafe [at 127 Orchard Street]. It’s my favorite restaurant in New York. It’s Jewish comfort food with sophisticated twists. For a while, I’d take people’s pictures while they took their first bite, because they had his look, like, ‘Where am I? This is the best food I ever had in my life!’ ”

5. John’s of Bleecker Street, 278 Bleecker Street, between Sixth and Seventh aves

“Lou liked to have, like, three different dinners — in the same night. He’d love to go out to dinner and then, ‘Why don’t we have a pizza?’ We liked the Margherita [at John’s of Bleecker Street]. When you use the right mozzarella, it’s amazing. Then we’d end up at Wallsé, the Austrian place in our neighborhood, and have strudel. You know, I really don’t know why he wasn’t 500 pounds!”

6. Coney Island, Brooklyn

“Andy Kaufman [left] took awkward to a new level. I saw his show in Queens in 1976 or ’77 — he was playing the bongos and sobbing. I thought, ‘This is great!’ I was his straight man for a while. We’d go out to Coney Island and try stuff out. At the ‘Test Your Strength’ thing with the big thermometer, Andy would make fun of the guys who’d do it, and I’d beg him for a [stuffed] bear. Finally, the guys got sick of his hectoring and said, ‘You try it, pal!’ Andy picks up the hammer and [the scale] barely goes to 1. He throws the hammer down and says, ‘This is rigged! I want to see the manager!’ He was a very special, sweet, adorable person.”