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Can Ciprianis Convince City To Landmark Rainbow Room?
A postscript to our story in this week’s print edition on how the Ciprianis, who run the art deco-themed Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, are trying to give the Tishman Speyer-owned space a...
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Rainbow Room Rent Rumble!
In December, The Observer‘s Eliot Brown wrote about Cipriani’s push to have the Rainbow Room in 30 Rock landmarked. The logic was that a landmark designation would strengthen Cipriani’s negotiating...
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Who Could Get Rainbow Room’s Pot of Gold?
The illustrious Rainbow Room high atop Rockefeller Center is up for grabs! Maybe. On Friday, the ever-embattled Cipriani family, which has operated the hallowed 64th- and 65th-floor banquet hall at 30...
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A Sense of Shame Among the Socials is Putting Restaurants and Gold Diggers...
The recent misfortunes of the Cipriani family—losing the lease on the Rainbow Room, a major drop in business and the tax liens filed against Giuseppe Cipriani, among other problems—can at least in part...
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Tishman Speyer Taps Barry Wine for Rainbow Room Restoration
Dale DeGroff earned the nickname “King of Cocktails” mixing fancy drinks at the illustrious Rainbow Room during its heyday back in the 1980s. “It was an amazing place,” Mr. DeGroff said. “We had a...
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The Last Ambiance Salesman
Location: Last August, just before the world crumbled, you said you catered to a clientele that ‘wanted a more sophisticated experience than dribbling beer on their running shoes.’ Has the recession...
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The Demise of Sky-High Dining
It was Friday night on the revolving 48th floor of the Marriott Marquis, and an elevator had just vomited a handful of tourists onto the solid core of the restaurant there—a minor miracle given how...
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Chasing the Rainbow Room: Landmarks Commission Considers Iconic Eatery
Is magenta one of the rainbow colors? (Wikimedia Commons) Ginger Rogers and Howard Hughes, two years after the Rainbow Room opened. (Getty) The Rainbow Room, like Tavern on the Green or Chumley’s, was...
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Rainbow Room Gets Its Gold: Landlord Tishman Speyer Blesses Plan to Landmark...
Dancing into history. (bilde/Angelfire) One of the big questions surrounding the landmarking of the Rainbow Room was whether or not it would win the support of Tishman Speyer, the august real estate...
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Rainbow Room Granted Landmarks Status, Paving Way for Restaurant’s Reopening
Let’s celebrate. (GEI NY) Despite concerns the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission might not grant the Rainbow Room landmarks status, having denied a request to do so only a few years ago, the...
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Hudson Yards Will Be Taller Than the Empire State Building, Including a...
What’re you lookin’ at? (Visualhouse/Related) Party on the skyline. (Visualhouse/Related) Earlier this week, the Related Companies announced it had found backers to begin building the first tower of...
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To Do This Week: Tune in for the CBGB Festival and Step Aboard the Intrepid
The Friends of Hermione-Lafayette in America gala will honor Charlie Rose at The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum this Tuesday. (Photo via Getty Images) WEDNESDAY, October 8 Here’s one party you...
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Ciprianis Push for Rainbow Room Landmarking
Gradually, the letters have begun to accumulate in Robert Tierney’s Lower Manhattan office. They all implore the same thing: landmark status for the Rainbow Room in 30 Rockefeller Center. The first...
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Hedge Funders & Celebrity Scientists Cut Loose in This Week’s Best Parties
Hedge funders cut a rug on Monday night at The Rainbow Room where Lincoln Center held its annual Alternative Investment Industry Gala. One might take alternate to mean risky, but these ladies and...
View ArticleSip These Sophisticated Pitchers and Punches 65 Stories Above Manhattan
If you fear that you’ve Instagrammed a few too many photos of cocktails this summer, there’s no need to worry. Bar SixtyFive at New York City’s iconic Rainbow Room is offering the perfect way to...
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Don’t Take Your Mom Here: Rainbow Room
So, say your mom is coming in to New York City for the weekend (a fairly common phenomenon), and you’re trying to decide how to plan it out. At Observer, we’ve come to the consensus that one of the...
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