The new Ganesvoort Park Avenue Hotel is now open in Gramercy with a super swanky 4-floor rooftop penthouse club/lounge Plunge that I was lucky enough to experience for an Everyday Health party last Thursday. Ganesvoort did not hold back on decking the place up with elephant tusk-sized chandelier fixtures floating above the bar, wrap-around glass balconies you can see through the floor down 20 stories below and a pool tiled with a 40s pinup Blond next to the phrase "I'm Waiting..." overlooking the bright Empire State building. For my first drink, I asked for a Tanqueray Tonic and the bartender told me she only had Bombay Sapphire--I'm not really sure what that says about my taste but any bar that doesn't carry Tanqueray seems a bit off to me. I simply solved the issue by having Champagne and Goose the rest of the night, no biggie. Plunge is everything I would expect from an exclusive New York City rooftop lounge and exactly the type of place I expect to see in a movie about capitalist New York starring Shia Labeouf or a rap video with Jamie Foxx. I felt like I was partying in someone else's dream, and by the end of the night, all I could dream about was going to sleep in my bed.
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