Best Rooftop Bars in Manhattan
The 10 best rooftop bars in Manhattan — Empire State views, sunset cocktails, FiDi heliports, Standard High Line classics, and the new openings driving 2026 reservations.
- 01
Overstory
Financial District · 70 Pine StA 64th-floor cocktail lounge atop 70 Pine Street in the Financial District from the Saga / Crown Shy team — small reservation-only room, harbor-and-skyline view, and a James Beard-recognized cocktail program.
Because Overstory is the highest serious cocktail bar in the borough — Statue of Liberty out one window and the Brooklyn Bridge out another — and the drink program is engineered by Harrison Ginsberg rather than treated as a hotel afterthought.
Order The Bee Gees clarified-milk-punch riff with the bar snacks plate.
Book exactly 30 days out at 9 a.m. when the reservation window opens — the room seats around 50 and the slots disappear in roughly 90 seconds for any Saturday.
- 02
Nubeluz by José Andrés
NoMad · 25 W 28th St, 50th FloorJosé Andrés's glass-box cocktail bar 500 feet up on the Ritz-Carlton NoMad's 50th floor.
Because the 270-degree skyline view comes with cocktails that take the bar part as seriously as the view part.
Order A Spanish-style gin and tonic, nursed slowly at the floor-to-ceiling glass.
Book ahead and time it for sunset.
- 03
230 Fifth Rooftop
NoMad · 230 5th AveA massive 22nd-floor open-air rooftop deck on Fifth Avenue at 27th Street, pointed almost directly at the Empire State Building — the most-photographed civilian rooftop view in Manhattan.