Rooftop Lounge at Pod39
Inventive, fresh-fruit cocktails from Hotel Delmano whiz-kid Sam Anderson matched with Salvation Taco’s eats makes for the ultimate happy-hour haunt. Swing by with colleagues for a perfect post-work hang, or wait ‘til the summer sun is strong to soak up the day drinking — especially because this temple of boozy wonders offers up whole, hollowed-out watermelons filled with booze. Yeah, it’s just that kind of magical dreamland that’ll make the dog days of New York summer feel as good as those two seconds we had of spring.
Pod 39 Hotel, 145 East 39th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues); (212) 865-5700.

Photo: Courtesy of Pod 39