Bar with a view?

I am sure this has been addressed before, but I can%26#39;t seem to find it , but can anyone recommend some cocktail lounges with a nice view of the city? Thanks!

Bar with a view?

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, however,

Hotel Gansevoort has a rooftop bar that has a really pretty view of downtown and the Hudson River. It is not very high up though.

Also there is another nice rooftop bar called 230 5th Ave. which is a 230 5th Ave. Also not very high up, but cool none the less.

Bar with a view?

You can go to the Rainbow grill at the Rockefeller center which is around the 65th floor. However, the prices of the cocktails are pretty steep茅 A glass of wine is 13$ but you get almonds with it.

There%26#39;s a bar on the 26th floor at the Beekman tower hotel. I guess it is not trendy but you have a view of the East river and you are near the United Nations so maybe you can combine a visit there (which is by the way very interesting and is a must if you are a tourist in NY) and have a drink at the hotel.

The View Restaurant and Lounge is in the Marriott in Times Square, 1535 Broadway. I%26#39;ve only been to the lounge for drinks and they are pricey but not anymore than everywhere else. This is the only revolving bar/restaurant in NYC and it is amazing in my opinion!!! Great views and since it revolves you get to see everything!

I would agree with View Restaurant at teh Marriott Marquis for drinks or dessert. I went there for brunch recently and wouldn%26#39;t recommend it.

Also, Rise Bar at the Ritz Carloton in Battery Park has excellent views of the harbor and SOL.

Didn%26#39;t know how to post the link but here is the NY Times article that someone posted recently:

THE plastic martini glass industry must have rejoiced at a recent Craigslist posting: an ';incredible new upscale venue'; in Midtown Manhattan with a ';magnificently landscaped 14,000 square foot'; penthouse garden, needed bartenders. Lots of them. Up to 22 at a time, 15 working the rooftop.

With the opening of the bar, 230 Fifth, on May 4, Manhattan%26#39;s rooftop bar season unofficially kicked off, with more than 25 high-altitude places in the city where the air is fresh (except for the cigarettes), the views are (often) stunning, and the drinks are (almost always) served in lightweight plastic, presumably to save pedestrians far below from potential injury, if not cranberry juice stains.

Some thrive in the daytime, others at sunset, others deep into the evening. String enough together and you could spend a weekend looking at rooftops.

230 FIFTH

The space atop the formerly anonymous New York Market Center near Madison Square is so vast as to be un-Manhattanlike, except that nearly every well-known New York City skyscraper is staring you down. What kind of a scene will develop was unclear the first few nights, when the on-premises Malaysian restaurant, which will be sending around snacks dim sum style, was not yet open, there was no drinks menu and the publicity juggernaut was just starting to gather steam. (Snack offerings begin May 21; the restaurant opens in June.)

ROOF GARDEN CAFE

Unlikely though it might seem, the Upper East Side is home to the city%26#39;s ultimate in democratic rooftops. At the Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, young and old, tourist and native co-exist, and no one looks askance if you hang out all day and don%26#39;t buy a drink.

The view is humbling: you stand just above the treetops of Central Park, with Central Park West and South beyond, so you can imagine how much those with similar views must have paid for them. The non-petty can ponder Cai Guo-Qiang%26#39;s installations, including a noontime poof of black smoke and two cast-resin crocodiles pierced with sharp instruments seized by airport security.

SUSHI SAMBA 7

The view from the rooftop deck of this Brazilian-Peruvian-Japanese restaurant in the West Village is pedestrian enough that it could be in just about any city, but the place is abuzz with a good-looking multiethnic crowd. The drinks menu is creative but serious and (relatively) inexpensive, with a regular caipirinha for $9 and a ginger caipirinha with real kick for $10.

BOOKMARKS

If the New York rooftop convention is plastic cups, palm fronds, white picket fencing and the Heineken-Corona-Amstel troika of over-marketed beers, Bookmarks, at the Library Hotel, is raging against the machine. Glasses made of glass! Decidedly deciduous plants! Pilsner Urquell and Dos Equis Amber for $7!

This midtown place is also among the most tasteful of rooftops, with wicker furniture, a brick and stone railing and a high-ceilinged greenhouse for chilly nights. It may be crowded after work on Fridays, but it is much more manageable on a Saturday evening. The view is a pleasant cityscape, good for spying on the bottled-water preferences of nearby offices.

PLUNGE

When this bar at the Gansevoort Hotel opened in 2004, it was all the rage, the mere idea of being 15 stories above the meatpacking district setting trendsetters%26#39; hearts aflutter. Plunge is now more of a standard, as evidenced by the wholesale shift in buzz to downstairs at the G-Spa. But stock the G with models and it would still not hold a candle to Plunge%26#39;s Hudson River views as the sun sets.

THE DELANCEY

Except for 1010 WINS traffic reporters, who might appreciate the perfect angle for spotting jams on the Williamsburg Bridge coming into Manhattan, the roof deck at this rock %26#39;n%26#39; roll club, also known for its live shows in the basement, is not a stunner. (And the view disappears completely when the retractable roof is closed.) But the beers cost only $5 or $6 鈥?with occasional $3 Millers鈥?and the crowd is mostly made up of laid-back Lower East Siders.

BED NEW YORK

Buried deep in the West 20%26#39;s club land, BED New York has two faces: late at night, a velvet-rope wait to enter a thumping rooftop club; earlier, a restaurant serving seared foie gras, rack of lamb and tiramis霉 in the shape of a bed. It%26#39;s not just the tiramis霉, of course: the tables are themselves beds.

Reservations are recommended for dinner and brunch on Sundays 鈥?which is not for early risers: it is served 2 to 8 p.m., which means you could dance there until 4 a.m., sleep eight hours (elsewhere 鈥?no overnight guests allowed) and still be twiddling your thumbs waiting for your reservation.

Twenty-EightRooftops

A60 at the 60 Thompson Hotel, 60 Thompson Street between Spring and Broome Streets; 212-431-0400; www.thompsonhotels.com. Hotel guests and members only.

Ava Lounge, 210 West 55th Street; 212-956-7020; www.avaloungenyc.com.

BED New York, 530 West 27th Street; 212-594-4109; www.bedny.com. Serves dinner and Sunday brunch.

Boogaloo, 168 Marcy Street between Broadway and South Fifth Street, Brooklyn; 718-599-8900. Rooftop is accessible through a rocket-ship-like tube and open Thursday through Saturday.

Bookmarks, the Rooftop Lounge at the Library Hotel, 299 Madison Avenue at 41st Street; 212-204-5498.

Broadway Bar and Terrace, 226 West 52nd Street; 646-459-5820.

Buster%26#39;s Garage, 180 West Broadway between Leonard and Worth Streets; 212-226-6811; www.bustersgarage.com.

Cabanas at the Maritime Hotel, 88 Ninth Avenue between 16th and 17th Streets; 212-835-5537; www.themaritimehotel.com.

The Delancey, 168 Delancey Street between Attorney and Clinton Streets; 212-254-9920; www.thedelancey.com. View of the Williamsburg Bridge.

The Eagle, 554 West 28th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue; 646-473-1866; www.eaglenyc.com. Gay leather and Levi%26#39;s scene; barbecue Sundays from 5 p.m.

Heights Bar and Grill, 2867 Broadway between 111th and 112th Streets; 212-866-7035; www.heightsnyc.com. Near Columbia University.

Jade Terrace at the China Club, 268 West 47th Street; 212-398-3800; www.chinaclubnyc.com.

Latitude, 783 Eighth Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets; 212-245-3034; www.latitudebarnyc.com.

Local West, 1 Penn Plaza at Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street; 212-629-7070; www.localcafenyc.com. Across the street from Madison Square Garden.

Me Bar at La Quinta Inn, 17 West 32nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues; 212-290-2460. Great Empire State Building view.

Metro Grill Roof Garden at the Hotel Metro, 45 West 35th between Fifth and Sixth Avenues; 212-279-3535; www.hotelmetronyc.com. Closed weekends.

The Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street; 212-879-5500; www.metmuseum.org.

The Park, 118 Tenth Avenue between 17th and 18th Ave; 212-352-3313, www.theparknyc.com. Rooftop penthouse with hot tub complements the 4,000-square-foot ground-floor garden.

Pen-Top Bar at the Peninsula Hotel, 700 Fifth Avenue at 55th Street; 212-956-2888; www.newyork.peninsula.com.

Plunge at the Gansevoort Hotel, 18 Ninth Avenue at West 13th Street; 212-206-6700; www.hotelgansevoort.com.

Rare View at the Shelburne Murray Hill Hotel, 303 Lexington Avenue at 37th Street; 212-481-1999; www.affinia.com.

Red Sky, 47 East 29th Street between Park and Madison Avenues; 212-447-1820; www.redskynyc.com. Third-floor roof deck.

Sky Terrace at the Hudson Hotel, 356 West 58th Street; 212-554-6000; www.hudsonhotel.com. For hotel guests only.

Sushi Samba 7, 87 Seventh Avenue South at Barrow Street; 212-691-7885; www.sushisamba.com.

The Terrace at Sutton Place Bar and Restaurant, 1015 Second Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets; 212-207-3777; www.suttonplacenyc.com.

13, 35 East 13th Street at University Place; 212-979-6677; www.bar13.com.

Top of the Tower at the Beekman Tower Hotel, 3 Mitchell Place at 49th Street and First Avenue; 212-980-4796; www.affinia.com. Old-school top-floor bar has two small outdoor areas.

230 Fifth, 230 Fifth Avenue at 27th Street; 212-725-4300.

Ah... The rooftop bar. I actually did some extensive research on this recently with friends coming into town. I have been to several of the places listed above, but the ones I would recommned are:

Ava Lounge - It is atop the Dream Hotel and if you call the day before for a reservation, it will be very easy to get a great little table outside looking down Broadway to Times Square.

Bookmarks - A great rooftop above a great hotel. Drinks are not that pricey and the staff is friendly.

230 Fifth - This is the latest and greatest. It%26#39;s not bad but can be crowded.

Gramercy Park Hotel - A nice view, never a problem getting in but drinks are pricey and not very good.

MeBar (Pronounced Maybar) in Koreatown is literaly almost across the street from the Empire State building. It%26#39;s atop the La Quinta Inn so no one really knows about it. A great find.

And then a couple of indoor locations - The Marriott Marquis has two options. The Broadway Lounge on the 8th floor looks right out onto Times Square and The View at the top rotates for a 360 degree view of Manhattan.

And for real glitz, there is Rise at the very top of the Ritz Carlton in Lower Manhattan.