Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz |

The McCarren Spritzer at the Elm

Hipster-bogged Billyburg isn’t exactly the beachy oasis of our summer dreams, but a poolside quaff crammed with tropical umbrellas and colorful straws brings a much-welcome wink of East Hampton to the East River. The Chelsea Hotels resto pours a seasonal swirl of St. Germain, grapefruit and the hotel’s private-label rosé from North Fork’s Mattebella Vineyards. 160 North 12th St between Bedford Ave and Berry St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (718-218-1088, theelmnyc.com). Glass $14, pitcher $70.

The new way to rosé: eight summer cocktails in NYC

Quench your thirst with the season’s chicest drink trend—rosé wine–spiked summer cocktails, poured at restaurants and bars all over NYC

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Ah, rosé—the refreshing, Provence-born summer wine is as much a seasonal staple as seersucker suits, rickety rides on the Coney Island Cyclone and Pharrell-crooned dance hits. Once relegated to ladies who lunch and snubbed by wine snobs, the warm-weather blush has become the mixer of the moment for summer cocktails, favored by tumbler-shaking bartenders for its versatility, complexity (a midpoint between tannic red and buttery white) and, of course, that gorgeous signature tint.

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