New York Magazine

Colored lights and sleek silver walls make this spaceship of a club take off.

The sister bar of Flatiron’s Aspen has wood jutting out from every direction.

Legends play the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, an intimate but spacious supper club that ranges well beyond its titular subject matter.

Modern Times Square hotel bar with well-designed, if impersonal, sleekness.

One of NYC's best pre- and post-theater bars.

A hotel bar with the best view of the Great White Way this side of Dick Clark’s perch.

Headliners take a star turn while emerging young talent nip at their heels, at New York's best-known comedy club.

Eden’s outdoor deck provides an escape from Times Square’s insane surface-level antics.

This mega sports bar gives new meaning to the phrase "media circus."

A Times Square basement institution that draws out-of-town businessmen like flies.

It’s "bartender on duty" at this posh spa-like lounge and swimming pool.

The rooftop lounge Highbar is the latest from Greg Brier of Aspen, D’Or, and Amalia.

Airliner comfort and conversation at this dark, subdued hotel lounge.

This kitschy, seventies-chic hotel bar may be designed to wow the tourists staying in the Time Hotel, but its groovy theme also satisfies Forbes Magazine readers and the stars, understudies, and chorus lines of nearby musicals.

This cavernous Times Square music venue may not strike the right chord with decor, but top-tier talent draws jazz fans from around the world.

A party-down dive that welcomes both pugilists and publishing types.

Home away from home for 'Post' journos, even Rupert Murdoch himself can be seen on occasion.

Dark wood-paneled bar in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel that manages to be ever-so-slightly less anodyne than the rest of the hotel.

Its packed, colored-square dance floor is where the suits really get sweaty.

So dorky it's cool, this theme bar is (possibly) the only spot in New York where you can meet a mute, rubber-clad alien.

Legendary hustler bar Stella's goes straight to the Emerald Isle.

A few paces inside of the somewhat forbidding, neo-Gothic exterior of the Night Hotel is an intimate lounge that lures rockers with cryogenically frozen hair.

An Irish bar with a modern update.

This spectacle-filled lounge fills its former inhabitant the China Club’s intimidating shoes, inviting glamour-starved travelers to show off their slick dance moves and fat wallets.

An elaborately designed lounge serving several variations on the martini and an extensive selection of wines.