While truly exceptional hotel stays are one means to experiencing luxury, sometimes all you have to do is simply visit the outstanding on-site bar. For the price of a cocktail you can experience world-class hospitality or check out the most up-and-coming new hotel—and for guests, a pre-dinner drink or end-of-evening night cap is often the cherry on top of a memorable stay.
Increasingly, hotel bars can also doubles as a solid place to post up and work, read, or dine during the day—and what better place to dive into a legendary hotel bar scene than New York City? From jazz lounges to panoramic rooftops and quintessential old-school New York favorites, there’s an NYC hotel bar for every type of drinker. Our advice? Even if you can’t snag a room for the night, hit as many of these simply unmissable spots as you can. Here are the best hotel bars in NYC, and some of their tipples our editors have enjoyed most.
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