This rooftop has been Designed by Lydia Marks and picked up on the retractable roof trend (two others had opened this year). This roof allows the bar to be open all round year. Panels will slide open during the bar’s inaugural summer to let the breeze in.
Top of the Strand
Posted on January - 6 - 2011
Upstairs
Posted on October - 27 - 2010
Upstairs is a little stunner lounge perched atop Midtown’s Kimberly Hotel. This rooftop is enjoyable in summer and in winter with its retractable roof.
This rooftop is one of those places that lets you look upon the grandeur of Midtown and remember why you chose to live in this city. Stepping out among potted flowers and black wicker furniture, beneath a crisscross of exposed lightbulbs strung overhead, you have just entered the sort of garden party that rarely happens within view of the Chrysler Building.
Press Lounge
Posted on May - 14 - 2010
The rooftop opened in May 2010. The “wow” effect is there, for sure! To the east, you get pure midtown cityscape with Times Square as strobe light; to the west, there’s the Hudson River. The hudge deck has seating for 172 on stools, couches, and podlike armchairs, all encircling a twenty-foot-long reflecting pool. Get there after work, around 7:00 PM, order a martini embellished with pickled ramps ($15) and a small plate of salumi, olives, and grilled bread ($15), and stick around for the sunset. What else?
Salon de Ning
Posted on April - 11 - 2010
The Peninsula Hotel offers 2 terraces on the rooftop. One providing a Fifth Avenue view, the other a view of Central Park and Midtown buildings (that one is non-smoking). Both are outfitted with daybeds fashioned from ornately carved timber. Eastern-tinged cocktails like the Ning Sling (mandarin vodka, lychee liqueur, mint, and lychee and passion fruit juices) and spirits like Chinese Baojing vodka and Tyku, an infused sake, match with the theme.
