Exclusive First Look at the Only Rooftop Bar in Times Square

St. Cloud caps the $250 million restoration of the Knickerbocker Hotel with a cigar lounge, VIP Skypods, and a menu by Charlie Palmer
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There are two kinds of Times Square. There's Tourists' Times Square, the manic, glittering vortex of selfies and capitalism and knock-off cartoon characters that are somehow delightful. And there’s Locals' Times Square, the loudmouthed, sweaty vortex of some 310,000 daily migrants and knock-off cartoon characters that are most definitely frightful.

That is, until something unexpected opens—like a new, 7,800-square-foot rooftop bar. Then even locals may change their tune.