A unique feature of the restaurant is the gabled-glass roof over which flows a miniature Niagra. There is the open-air dancing floor and the restaurant is conspicuous for dangling ferns and trailing vines. I’ll let this New York Times article from 1920 describe the scene:ĭown near Times Square the Hotel Astor Roof Garden and Belvedere Restaurant make it possible for the wayfarer to leave the torrid stretches of Seventh Avenue and in a few moments find himself in a real garden surrounded by flowers. It opened in 1913 with over a thousand seats and was located on Broadway at W.
