The Empire Hotel NYC
The hotel widely known amongst rabid Gossip Girl fans as "Chuck Bass' Hotel." But here's an official description:
With 420 guest rooms, The Empire Hotel embodies a return to the classic hotel room but with an edge. Inspired by local surroundings, the rooms pay tribute to Central Park with a rich earth tone palette accented by leather furnishings combined with the modernism of Lincoln Center. Rest and unwind in the virtuoso comfort of The Empire Hotel.
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Hotel Coverage: The Empire Hotel NYC
5 Hotels To Check Out For Fashion Week
New York Fashion Week officially kicked off yesterday, and for the next week, New York is a sloppy mess of runway events, underpaid models, and too many cocktail parties than we care to count. On the plus side, hotels always get a good piece of the action—here's a look at...
February 10, 2012
Something Is Rotten In The Amsterdam Hospitality Group
The WSJ is reporting that an auditor for Amsterdam Hospitality Group has greedily helped himself to the credit card information of 237 guests, drawing from three of the group's eight Manhattan hotels. Luckily, NYC's Fashion Week mainstay, the Empire Hotel, which the company owns, wasn't affected. Phew! Though we dote...
November 07, 2011
Last Chance to Strip Down At These 7 NYC Rooftop Pools
In New York, it's all about the views. But the summer heat can be cruel, and sizzling on a scenic—but sweltering—rooftop isn't everyone's idea of fun. Unless there's a pool! Here, we've gone and taken a look at seven of the city's top top-floor watery retreats. From spa centers to...
July 26, 2011
The Top 10 Rooftop Hotel Bars to Visit in NYC This Summer
It's that time of year again--hotel rooftop season! Remember all those places we mentioned last year? Forget about 'em. There's a new batch of bars to try. We've sorted through all the outdoor hotel bars that New York City has to offer, and organized them into a comprehensive, best-of...
May 18, 2011
Drink Your Way Through the Rest of Fashion Week at NYC's Empire Hotel
This has been one damned cold winter, and to tell you the truth, we aren't feeling so stylish this Fashion Week. After dropping by the scene at the NY Fashion Week tents at Lincoln Center last night, we definitely needed a drink. Thankfully, you don't have to get dressed...
February 11, 2011
Manhattan Hotels Are Channeling Fashion Week
Where you won't be staying this Fashion Week: The Mondrian Soho New York Fashion Week starts today and more than a couple properties are offering catwalk-oriented events to lure big spending clothiers out of the Lincoln Center tents and into their lobbies. Official sponsor W Hotels has a variety...
February 10, 2011
The Empire's Cocktails Will Get You Into The Holiday Spirits
The Ho Ho Hot Toddy.It's almost cocktail hour, folks, and since we're now officially in December and Hanukkah is here, we think the drinks consumed tonight and this weekend should be as festive as possible. If you're in NYC, the Empire Hotel is one property that's getting behind the Holiday...
December 03, 2010
Two More NYC Hotels to Hit Up For Creepy Cocktails And Costumes
If you're in NYC for Halloween but haven't been invited to Heidi Klum's famous party, hotel festivities may be your answer. At the Empire Hotel near Lincoln Center, the holiday will be marked in the best possible way: with booze. Halloween cocktails being served at the hotel include the Jack...
October 22, 2010
Some NYC Hotels are Lucky Enough to Be Steps from Fashion Week
Last night in Lincoln Center, a nook of New York City usually reserved for the fine arts of opera, ballet and classical music, New York Fashion Week started up its engines and went full speed ahead showing the Spring 2011 designer collections. We headed up there to check out...
September 10, 2010
The Top 5 NYC Hotels for Fashion Week at Lincoln Center
New York City's semiannual Fashion Week begins so soon—on September 9, to be precise, and we hope you've made your hotel reservations already to score the best rooms with lowest rates possible. If not, don't fret. To chill in lobbies with fashion editors, models and their hangers-on, just book...
August 24, 2010
NYC's Empire Hotel is a Victim of the New CW Show 'High Society'
Jules has words for the maid Please tell us that you haven't started watching the sorta-new show High Society on The CW. Because if you have, then right about now you feel nothing but pity for anyone involved with the "stars," especially the housekeeping staff of Manhattan's Empire Hotel. The...
March 25, 2010
The Empire Hotel Celebrates Chuck Bass With Gossip Girl Cocktails
If you've been paying attention in the slightest to this most recent season of Gossip Girl, then you'll have noticed how New York's Empire Hotel has become one of the characters, after it was bought by Chuck Bass. Now that the hotel is making appearances on TV, the real...
November 23, 2009
The Five Best Hotels for the 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Yes, once again it's time for our annual list of Best Hotels For Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This is our fourth installment and while last year's choices and anything in the vicinity of Times Square still holds true, we decided to do away with the old and...
November 02, 2009
'Sex and The City' Gals Take Over Chuck Bass' Place, The Empire Hotel
As if Chuck Bass buying the place wasn't enough glitz and glamour for The Empire Hotel, the Sex and The City crew were filming in the hotel lobby (pictured above) all day Monday and a spy sent us some scoop on what was going on. Someone saw a movie poster...
October 16, 2009
Chuck Bass Takes On Sean MacPherson on 'Gossip Girl'
We know that Sean Macpherson was traveling in Bhuktan last week but we sincerely hope he made it back stateside to watch himself on the last night's episode of "Gossip Girl."In the episode, Sean played himself--a New York City hotelier--who Chuck Bass approaches with his nightclub plans (and tries to...
September 29, 2009
The NYT Checks In to a 'Different Kind of Fashion Week Blowout'
The NYT shook things up a bit this weekend with their Check In, Check Out column. Rather than checking in to a new trendy hotel, the Gray Lady took another look at one of Manhattan’s oldest hotels, the Empire, which underwent a renovation last year that the NYT says...
September 14, 2009
Sweating It Out on the Empire Hotel City Running Tour
Last week we told you about the Empire Hotel introducing City Running Tours, and this week we actually tied on a pair of sneakers and tagged along on one.We were a little nervous about not being fit enough to run the 5-mile route through Central Park and the Upper...
September 11, 2009
Hot Restaurants Also Opening in Hot NYC Hotels This Fall
The fashionistas are here! It’s official: New York Fashion Week has begun. And, frankly, the sight of all those models and rack-thin fashion editors makes us hungry. So to console ourselves, we compiled this nifty little list of upcoming hotel nosh spots that we’re already salivating over. Consider it...
September 10, 2009
The Empire Hotel Introduces City Running Tours
What awaits you at the Jeunesse Spa after your run. Last year, the Westin Times Square got its guests running by teaming up with City Running Tours, and obviously the Empire Hotel has figured out this was a great idea. Starting from today, guests at the Empire will also be...
September 01, 2009
The Empire Hotel is a Revolving Door of Celebrities
If the The Empire Hotel actually had a revolving door, we could say that the hotel is a revolving door of celebrities — literally — but even with a boring set of pull doors, celebrities keep on coming and going from this Midtown West hotel. And some of these...
June 18, 2009
The Kardashian Clan Promotes Their Empire at The Empire
Oh, the Kardashian family. As many times as their whole mystique has been explained to us, we still don't understand why they're famous; we don't understand which sister is which or who they're dating or, really, why we should care — but they're doing their best to make appearances...
March 17, 2009
What Will Be the Next Hot Fashion Week Hotel for NYC?
Oh noes! New York's posh party in the park, better known as Bryant Park Fashion Week, has reached the end of its lease on the and has to pick up and move from the park beginning from fall 2009. The move to a new space was just finalized, and...
February 04, 2009
The Empire Hotel Drops to $159 a Night
We were loving on The Empire Hotel over the summer, thanks to its recent renovations and especially for its hot rooftop area with plenty of celeb sightings. But we always wondered if we would love it when the weather turned? You know, like Sandy and Danny Zuko. (We'll be Sandy,...
December 18, 2008
Tennis Players Kick Off the US Open at The Empire Hotel
While we were totally preoccupied with the Olympics, other sporting events have been getting prepared in the background: like the US Open, which had its big Players' Party on Friday night at the Empire Hotel in New York.While an awful lot of non-tennis-playing celebrities paraded around the Empire, a...
August 25, 2008
The Empire's New Look To Be Unveiled June 1
Last week in our rooftop bar obsession haze, we profiled The Empire Hotel which has a killer pool deck and restaurant on its top levels, strictly for hotel guests. But there's more to the hotel than what's on the rooftop surface. On June 1st, the hotel will officially hosts...
May 28, 2008
Another Manhattan Rooftop Bar and Pool Worth Checking Out
[UPDATE: The Chodorow restaurant, CenterCut, will not be on the rooftop here.]Hotel Maven AdvilJunkie pointed us to the way of the Empire Hotel in Manhattan and the hotel's rooftop pool deck and bar.The pool and bar is split into two levels. The top level holds the pool with plenty of...
May 21, 2008
Ono at Hotel Gansevoort is Out, The Maxim Steakhouse is In
Ono, the Japanese restaurant inside the Hotel Gansevoort, will close in March. In its place, a Maxim steakhouse will open--yes, Maxim of the lad mags. But for those of you who love Ono, the restaurant will open in another location, so says Jeffrey Chodorow of China Grill Management.NY Mag's...
January 04, 2008
Partner Reviews: The Empire Hotel NYC
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Awesome movie nights every Wednesday! -
Ask to dj w your own iPod, either mine or Nikkah's! -
Come on Tuesday & Wednesday night for service from sexy lady bartenders! -
Awesome movie night every Wednesday night!!
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Best bartenders in the city. -
Come on a Tuesday night and leave the bartender, Bianca, a huge tip. She is super sexy! -
My other 5th street go to. This place is a gem and possibly the closest replacement to Mars Bar you can find. -
Maddy hearts Bradley! Tip your bartender! -
241 happy hour every day til 8, and awesome movies on Wednesdays :) -
Tip the bartenders well and you'll always b treated well
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Also, the two heated pipes against the wall do wonders for your back. It's like a hot tub. -
Wear your jacket and don't fall off your stool.
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$6 PBR and well bourbon happy hour is appealing. As is the 4am and later lock-in where you can convince the bartenders to put on your iPod.
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actually John Ross is mayor of fish bar.
Bartender attitude for no reason
I have been part of the nightlife scene for many years now. I was glad to see the Empire come back to life and the rooftop looks good. I am also looking to book a spot for my birthday party and figured I would make it one of my options. Music is good, good looking crowd but the bartenders at the end bar are rude and disrespectful for no reason. Twice, I saw a bartender give nasty looks at a guest. I was also called a lurch, which surprised me, only because I was spending my money at the bar and being aware of my surroundings by the bartender. These girls need attitude adjustments. They act like they are in a military camp. Needless to say, I will not have my part there and I do not recommend this place to anyone. Very overrated
Herbie, general manager, is awful
We had a great time in general - good music, good service, good company. However, at the end of night, one of my friends was charged for our drinks but given the WRONG credit card back. Accidents happen - clearly one of the bar-tenders mixed up the credit cards - but what surprised us most was the attitude of the general manager. He not did not apologize - was downright rude, in fact - he threatened to throw out our friends for being "in his face", when, in fact, he was not willing to take responsibility for what had happened. Interestingly, the rest of the staff, including the security guards, were sympathetic towards us. However, Herbie, the general manager, was neither sympathetic nor courteous. Which is a shame, since there is much potential for this site - you would think he would he would at least know when to apologize and to keep clientale happy...I wish the Empire Hotel good luck, particularly if Herbie is in charge...Watch out.
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