Tag Archive for: The Empire State Building

Terry Trucco

Up Close and Personal with the Empire State Building at the Refinery Hotel Roof Bar

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When a tower is as tall as the Empire State Building, you can see it from a lot of vantage points. Still, the view from roof bar at the new Refinery Hotel is special.

The hotel stands just four blocks north of the once-tallest-building-in-the-world. From the roof it appears so close you feel you could almost leap over in a King Kong moment. Read more

Terry Trucco

Sipping a Drink and Gazing at the Empire State Building at Pod 39’s Cool Roof Bar

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We’ll venture a wild guess that architect Arthur Loomis Harmon never dreamed the roof of Allerton House, a residential hotel for men he designed in 1916, would one day serve up Mexican beer, California Cabernet and cocktails like Fly By Night (gin, lemon juice, cinnamon-vanilla bean, orange blossom and sea salt on the rocks). Read more