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Library Bar

811 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019
at 53rd St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-581-1000 Send to Phone

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  • Scene: Business Crowd, Fireplace, Hotel Bar

Hours

Daily, 3pm-1am

Nearby Subway Stops

1 at 50th St.; B, D, E at Seventh Ave.

Payment Methods

American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

Profile

With only marginal success, the Sheraton's lobby bar tries to recreate the romantic notion of the hotel lounge: The dark wood paneling, plush leather easy chairs, and working fireplace are meant to evoke a room in a snooty social club where ruddy-faced executives might go to smoke cigars and sip at snifters of VSOP. Because it's barely separated from the bright lobby, however, there is not quite as much mystery and intimacy here, and the crowd tends more towards fanny-packed septuagenarians staring at one another in silence and plotting routes on subway maps. Like a Starbucks for 21 and over, the Library Bar provides a certain degree of comfortable familiarity: In contrast to the mad city outside, here is a bar that could easily be found in a Sheraton in Indianapolis, or for that matter in the Denver airport.

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