Get a table on the East Terrace, where you can overlook the shops of Fifth Avenue from 23 stories up. Settle in and order a “Ning Sling,” a gin-based passion fruit mojito topped with lychees. Read more.
Here, you'll find no DJs, and no sloppy folk: Instead, there are twinkling lights, fire pits, artisanal cocktails, and unobstructed panoramas to help you revel in big city beauty. Read more.
PH-D Terrace is one of the city’s more intimate and well-decorated rooftops, strewn with colorful designer cushions. Get the “Pomegranate Rickey.” Read more.
The wraparound views of the Manhattan skyline and Jersey City are sublime as are the pitcher-sized libations. Arrive at 4 p.m. for a chance at grabbing a coveted chair or couch. Read more.
Head past the Rodins and up to the fifth-floor garden atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art for magnificent views of Central Park. Read more.
The Drift reopened for summer season in June 2016 with quite possibly the summer’s most delicious and Instagram-worthy cocktail: “frosé”—rosé sorbet and sparkling rosé topped with a skewer of berries. Read more.
Unpretentious fun is the theme at this bar and lounge above the Park South Hotel. The gregarious crowd, which spans all demographics, can’t get enough of the creative, spirit-forward cocktails. Read more.
At this grand, industrial chic fusion of indoor- outdoor space, and the glow of the Empire State Building join forces to play Cupid. The strong cocktails also help. Read more.
Come evening, head to the wraparound terrace at Dream Downtown, which has vistas of the Hudson River and sparkling Empire State Building. The “Strawberry Fields” is our drink of choice. Read more.
Original brick arches and terra cotta columns comprise a roof of century-old ruins. You’ll catch a glimpse of Freedom Tower, but it's more likely that your eyes will be on the crowd. Read more.
