The Empire Hotel
Hotel and Cocktail Bar
Lincoln Square, New York
"Don't forget to get the Chuck Bass Cocktail at the lobby bar!"(12 Tips)
"Amazing trip for gossip girl fanatics!"(4 Tips)
"The Sobieski Cytron martini at the rooftop bar is to die for."(6 Tips)
"location across the street from Lincoln Center and the rooftop"(4 Tips)
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Marc SOctober 6, 2017Rooms are small and in dire need of renovation, but you can’t beat the location across the street from Lincoln Center and the rooftop is worth a visit. Also, you can make like you’re Chuck Bass.
Upvoted Nov 25, 2024- Karin BäcklundJanuary 13, 2014Great hotel with small but nice rooms, great restaurant and very friendly roof top club with a view to kill for! Don't forget to get the Chuck Bass Cocktail at the lobby bar!
FRITZ fritztheyodelerJune 20, 2015This is an elegant hotel close to Lincoln Center & a short walk to Central Park. It is not cheap but heck, what is in NYC, right? But you are getting reasonable value here for what you pay for though.
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Damian BayonaMay 3, 2015One of those rooftop bars that makes you feel like you are in the center of everything. Great views. Inside and outside seating areas.Upvoted Nov 24, 2024
Ece CAugust 27, 2014Friendly people, great location, stylish hotel. Don't expect too much from their breakfast, you will only have bagels, pastries and classic corn flakes with paper containers and plastic cutlery.
- Lydia BuckiusMay 25, 2015Amazing trip for gossip girl fanatics! Grand and dark lobby that reminds you of the one and only Chuck bass. Any girl will feel like Blair Waldorf when you arrive to the Empire Hotel.
Duncan PJSeptember 3, 2014Sad the pool closed early but they had a good sense of humour and sent me an apology from chuck bass
Kevin GrahlAugust 6, 2014Every Gossip Girl fan should stay here while visiting the Big Apple. Nice comfy rooms and the view from the roof is amazing!
Cocktails & CoutureJuly 12, 2011The hotel lobby is breathtaking...great boutique hotel in a primo location. The bar in the lobby is comfortable and has a nice array of hard to find wines.
AC CapehartDecember 8, 2021If you want to take the stairs, they are just through non-descript double doors in the corner past the elevator
Liana CascianiJuly 17, 2015Haggle with the concierge to get a lower rate or upgrade with your room. If your Sicilian or Italian use it to bond!
Neal HillApril 26, 2014There's a nice lounge on the second floor to relax. Bathroom... Wi-Fi... all the amenities of home!
Jónína HansenJuly 20, 2018Really nice going to the rooftop grab a couple of drinks and enjoy the view ☀️
Cosmopolitan MagazineJune 15, 2011Pucker up to one of Cosmo's Sexiest Cocktails: The Oral Pleasure. It's a juicy mix of blood orange puree, tequila, and pear liqueur served with a candy straw. Yum! Read more
Fekete AnnamáriaAugust 11, 2014Good hotel in the upper west side nyc.:) the view is good from the rooftop swimming pool.
Pascal MSeptember 28, 2018Although they are slowly improving some parts of the hotel (in room AC) they still have an issue with sound isolation and especially the windows. If you look for quiet. This is not the place for you.
Maybelline New YorkSeptember 5, 2012What’s New York without a stylish rooftop soiree? Party like Chuck Bass right across from the shows at Lincoln Center.
Nadia IssaBellaFebruary 27, 2015The bar really does look like the sort of place that Chuck Bass would frequent/own. Xoxo
Gary BarrettDecember 28, 2014The location is great, but it not worth the room cost. Small rooms with old decrepit finishing.
BarbaraNovember 20, 2013Very small rooms but well designed. Bigelow bath products. Mini-bar. The windows open for fresh air.
LeeFebruary 14, 2012The bouncers need to check their ego. You all work at a hotel not the white house!!!! Assholes!!!
The lobby bar is an awesome place to have a drink & Courtney at the front desk will get you a gym hook up.- The lobby bar is an awesome place to have a drink & Courtney at the front desk will get you a gum hook up.
Alex RobinsonNovember 28, 2011Chuck Bass sure picks his hotels in style, so enjoy the rooftop bar like any Bass should.- Anoud ..July 6, 2013Great location(near lincoln corner). I guess they have a club outside but there is 2 things I didn't like, 1:the elevators and slow and you have to wait 30 minutes. 2:the rooms are tiny:/
Juan MunozSeptember 26, 2015Don't ever stay on the 11th floor unless you are able to fall asleep with high-decibel music.
Peter KloproggeMarch 24, 2011Want free Internet: use empire as username and upperwest63 as passcode. Got this from staff after pressing that their website states that there ia free Internet.
Cheryl ConteeDecember 8, 2010Modern yet comfortable design, nice rooftop bar and near Lincoln Center, Juilliard and Broadway. Recommended!- Peter KloproggeMarch 24, 2011Want free Internet: use empire as username and upperwest63 as passcode. Got this from staff after pressing that their website states that there ia free Internet.o
Alan MortonNovember 26, 2018Unimpressed with this hotel the ventilation makes a heck of sound all night long room in need of a refurbishment!
Make sure not to get a room next to the elevator! Rooms are small, and they have smoking/non-smoking ones!
Never accept the room 841, it feels like a closet and the AC does not work properly. The cleaning is very superficial. I will not go back to this hotel 😝
Do NOT lean back on the pillows on couches in the lobby bar,like everything else in the hotel they are falling apart and will leave you covered in feathers!
Kenneth TiongNovember 16, 2012Incompetent hotel. A request for a knife at 812am only produced a knock at my door at 836am, after multiple calls saying I was in a hurry.
Phil KamJune 30, 2012No shorts? Seriously in this 90 degree weather for a outdoor bar? For real shorts can be more stylish and chic than crotch showing bandage dresses these hoes are wearing. Skip this place. Next.
Adam LipkinJuly 27, 2013Avoid. Location is great (and the staff are nice), but broken showers, maids who ignore "do not disturb" signs (and who "accidentally" walk off with electronic devices), and more plague this place.
Bruna ValençaSeptember 10, 2013The installations are perfect but the quality of the service needs improving. The people from the front desk are rude!
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