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What if Studio 54 had the biggest roof deck in the city? You don't have to imagine it. It just happened.

Get out your best bling in order to infiltrate Jay-Z's exclusive sports bar.

A compact bi-level club that feels vaguely like a European after-hours.

Catch-22 came late to the retro-cocktail-lounge trend, but its strikingly beautiful interior will help you forget it’s all been done before.

After almost a decade, this well-appointed Irish pub in the Flatiron District caters to your sports addiction without that sticky sports bar after-taste.

Get supine on one of this neon-lit lounge’s custom beds.

If you’re in a celebratory mood, Flûte is the place to be.

Owner-partner Julie Reiner takes a cheflike approach to her cocktail craft.

The most welcoming, unpretentious Swiss Alpine cottage-themed bar in New York.

A bi-level club with a free-spirited bohemian sensibility upstairs and a predisposition for bottle service throughout.

A bottle-service club and art gallery.

Club creator Tommy Tardie is changing his glossy 3,500-square-foot club Ultra (which currently features a snow machine and a 100-foot-long projection wall) to this nightclub, with performance art, eighteen-foot-high murals of hard-edged models, and risqué wallpaper.

Stranded in midtown? This Irish bar and restaurant will get you drunk in a pinch.

Amuse yourself in the slightly hidden pool room,with trips to the jukebox, and with rounds of cheap drinks.

Classic Flatiron saloon with some of the best burgers in the city.

Where men are encouraged to act like pigs.

A marvelously friendly waitstaff and a shot-fueled pickup scene are the draws at this bridge-and-tunnel favorite.

Off a main room accommodating thirteen tables are nine curtained-off rooms that can be rented for the night.

Spacious multi-level club attempts to take you higher on the weekends.

A lounge-restaurant offers upscale, sultry solace on a scene-y club-ridden Flatiron block.

Though sleek and somewhat generic, Tens offers a more tempting variety of strippers than the competition.

A nightclub with a VIP tree house raised two flights above the main room.

This wine bar floods its high-ceilinged space with sunlight via skylights then keeps the mood mellow by piping in Sarah McLachlan.