ELLIMAN EXPLORES MIDTOWN Edition 1 MIDTOWN Discover the hidden gems and popular favorites of the neighborhood. Midtown is back. Once thought of mostly as a place for commuters to spend their working days or for tourists to catch a show, recent years have brought about a renaissance. 5th Avenue Downtown-style cafes and restaurants now sit side by side with established institutions like the Museum of Modern Art (9) and the New York Public Library (10), (not to mention the world of Broadway and the theater district). Add in a collection of architecturally significant new residential high rises , and what you get is one of New York’s most exciting, reimagined neighborhoods. Times Square ELLIMANEXPLORES Eating & drinking Dining in Midtown used to be associated mostly with stuffy, expense account affairs. But today, there’s a wealth of interesting (and delicious) choices that are drawing people even from the hippest parts of downtown and Brooklyn. Australian cafe Bluestone Lane (1) is one of them—a cozy, beautifully designed espresso bar that’s particularly good for a breakfast of avocado toast or a classic jaffle (Australian style pressed sandwich with cheese and tomato). Bryant Park Meanwhile, one of A few blocks away, splashiest restaurant Lauren’s other new openings in recent venture, Ralph’s memory—not just in Coffee (3), is ideal for this neighborhood a mid-day caffeine but in the entire city— pick-me-up and a was Ralph Lauren’s small snack. Polo Bar (2). Here, the world of Ralph If Polo Bar is the Lauren comes to life new classic, then in restaurant form. the 21 Club (4) is East 41st Street Warm leather, cozy one of the originals. plaids, oil paintings, and Since opening in a menu of American 1930, it has served classics (lobster up reliable, elevated bisque, a corned beef comfort food like sandwich) executed dover sole with in its highest form. asparagus and lemon beurre blanc and veal osso buco with orzo pasta and roasted tomato jus—all in an old school, speakeasy- style setting. ELLIMANEXPLORES Lexington Avenue Credit Daniel Krieger Le Bernardin And the temple of seafood remains Le Bernardin (5), where chef Eric Ripert creates dishes that could double as works of art, while a few blocks away, power lunching is still alive and well at The Lambs Club (6), where a striking upstairs dining room is the backdrop for chef Geoffrey Zakarian’s entrees like the lobster ravioli with squid ink and the Long Island duck breast with quinoa and sunchokes. ELLIMANEXPLORES Exploring One area in which Midtown has always been a leader is culture, and that holds truer today than ever before. Of course, there are the world famous Broadway plays and musicals, the legendary Radio City Music Hall (7) and the epic Madison Square Garden (8) (home to the New York Knicks basketball team) for blockbuster concerts and sporting events. Radio City Music Hall The art world, meanwhile, has MoMA (9), one of the world’s You’ll also find one of the greatest museums dedicated city’s most revered, significant to modern and contemporary buildings in Midtown—the art, housed in a striking Yoshio regal Beaux Arts New York Taniguchi-designed building. Public Library’s (10) main Don’t miss a meal at the branch in Bryant Park. The museum’s excellent two Rose Main Reading Room Michelin-starred restaurant, is an icon of Manhattan, The Modern, which fuses spanning the size of almost French and New American two city blocks and adorned cuisine and is the perfect way with historic murals, ornate to end an afternoon perusing chandeliers and endless stacks the galleries. of reference books. New York Public Library ELLIMANEXPLORES Relaxing A big Midtown trend from the past few years has been the crop of new hotels—an exciting addition to the neighborhood not just for visitors but for the area’s residents as well. Take the Baccarat (11), which opened last year directly across from MoMA and is so much more than simply a hotel. There’s a glamorous, velvet and leather-accented bar (with Baccarat crystal chandeliers, naturally), a full service spa from famed beauty company La Mer, and the Petit Salon, where quiet dinners or afternoon tea can be taken—a perfect respite from the busy streets outside. Baccarat Hotel Rockefeller Center For something a little more dramatic, the Viceroy Central Park New York hotel’s bar, The Roof (12), offers perhaps the most jaw-dropping views in Midtown, with panoramas of Central Park. And for a wellness day, the Spa Nalai (13) at the Park Hyatt New York has some of the largest treatment rooms in the city for facials and massages, high in the sky on the hotel’s 25th floor . (Don’t miss a dip in the large indoor swimming pool, which spa guests are welcome to use.) Still, it’s hard to beat the classics, and a gin-and-tonic or glass of champagne at the venerable, iconic King Cole Bar (14) (which is over 100 years old) at the St. Regis Hotel is one of those New York moments that can’t be experienced anywhere else. ELLIMANEXPLORES MIDTOWN WEST 57TH STREET CENTRAL PARK WEST 58TH STREET 1 Bluestone Lane 1114 6th Avenue 10TH AVENUE M 57 ST M 2 The Polo Bar 1 East 55th Street 7 AV 5 AV 59 ST WEST 52ND STREET 9TH AVENUE 3 Ralph’s Coffee WEST 51ST STREET WEST 55TH STREET M 2nd Floor, 711 5th Ave 8TH AVENUE 57 ST WEST 5OTH STREET WEST 54TH STREET WEST 56TH STREET M 4 21 Club 21 West 52nd Street 7 AV WEST 53RD STREET M 50 ST BROADWAY 5 Le Bernardin 155 West 51st Street M 50 ST M 6 The Lambs Club 132 West 44th Street 49 ST M 5 AV 53 ST M WEST 47TH STREET 7 Radio City Music Hall 1260 6th Avenue 47-50 STS PARK AVENUE 7TH AVENUE ROCKEFELLER CENTER WEST 46TH STREET WEST 48TH STREETWEST 49TH STREET 8 Madison Square Garden 4 Pennsylvania Plaza WEST 45TH STREET M 6TH AVENUE 51 ST 42 ST M PORT AUTHORITY 9 MoMA 11 West 53rd Street WEST 41ST STREET WEST 44TH STREET 5TH AVENUE WEST 4OTH STREET M TIMES SQ 42 ST 10 New York Public Library 476 5th Avenue WEST 39TH STREET M 42 ST BRYANT PARK WEST 42ND STREET MADISON AVENUE 11 Baccarat Hotel 28 West 53rd Street WEST 43RD STREET BRYANT PARK WEST 38TH STREET 12 The Roof at the Viceroy 124 West 57th Street WEST 37TH STREET M GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL WEST 36TH STREET 13 Spa Nalai at the Park Hyatt 153 West 57th Street WEST 35TH STREET M LEXINGTON AVENUE 34 ST PENN STATION 14 King Cole Bar at the St. Regis 2 East 55th Street WEST 33RD STREET WEST 32ND STREET WEST 34TH STREET M 3RD AVENUE M WEST 31ST STREET 34 ST MTA subway station HERALD SQUARE WEST 30TH STREET 5TH AVENUE Discover the series: LOWER MANHATTAN GRAMERCY WEST CHELSEA CENTRAL PARK SOUTH MIDTOWN LONG ISLAND CITY TRIBECA CHELSEA SOHO EAST VILLAGE & LOWER EAST SIDE WILLIAMSBURG HARLEM & UPPER MANHATTAN UPPER EAST SIDE UPPER WEST SIDE.