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NEW YORK
COCKTAIL LOUNGE
Ophelia Lounge NYC
Cocktail Lounge · Spirited · Midtown East
$$$
WHERE
3 Mitchell Pl 26th floor, New York, NY 10017, USA
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From the Editor

On the 26th floor of the Beekman Tower, Ophelia occupies one of Midtown East's more storied addresses. The Art Deco tower opened in 1928 as the Panhellenic, a residence and social club for working women developed by suffragette Emily Hepburn and architect John Mead Howells; the rooftop later became Top of the Tower, a haunt of Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis. Merchants Hospitality and Public Agenda reopened it as Ophelia in February 2018, with a wraparound greenhouse terrace, jewel-tone walls, checkerboard tile, red velvet banquettes, and a 24-foot pewter bar inlaid with curiosities from the building's past. Mixologist Amir Babayoff's two-part menu runs from a Caribbean Old Fashioned to the cedar-smoked Ophelia's Ascension. Come for the 360-degree views and a room that wears its history well.

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