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Though many older hotels have ceded the reputation for hip night life to a new generation of boutique hotels, the beds still work fine. You can stay in the Gramercy Park Hotel, which was recently overhauled, or the Beekman Tower, with its top-floor cocktail lounge and view of the (rusting) Queensboro Bridge. Then there's the Waldorf-Astoria, although its famous Starlight Roof, recently restored to something like its former glory, is now open only for special events. (But guests can ask to see it.) And there's always the Algonquin, which in 1957 was already looking back on the Round Table days of the 1920s with nostalgia.
Most of the classic New York museums are right where they were 50 years ago, when modern art was still modern. Other attractions remain, too: the observatory at the top of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, officially called Top of the Rock and reopened in 2005, for example, or take the subway to Coney Island and ride the Cyclone, which turns 80 next year. There's the boardwalk, and Nathan's hot dogs.