If you and your sweetie skate well, you’ll have fun at the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink. If one of you skates better than the other, you get to catch your partner, repeatedly. Either way, you can warm up later.
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The River Cafe in Brooklyn on a floating barge docked next to the Brooklyn Bridge makes for a perfect romantic dinner. Make sure you ask for a table by the windows.
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Have a bit of bubbly in The Plaza’s Champagne Bar or dinner in the Oak Room. Rooms start at $775 for Valentine’s.
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Watch the sunset as you look out across New York Harbor with the Statue of Liberty in the distance while you sip cocktails at the Ritz-Carlton’s Rise bar in Battery Park City.
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One if by Land Two if by Sea in Greenwich Village is often called the city’s most romantic restaurant.
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The First Couple thought Blue Hill in the West Village was the perfect place for a romantic dinner last year.
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The Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel is just the right place to sneak away to on Valentine’s.
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As beautiful as Central Park when it’s lush during the summer, it may be nicer, and more romantic, during the winter when the crowds are away. And after a fresh snowfall, it’s simply lovely.
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To understand why the top of the Empire State Building is romantic, simply see “Sleepless in Seattle” and “An Affair to Remember.”
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