The Carlyle, Madison Avenue at East 76th Street

The Carlyle hotel on the corner of Madison Avenue and East 76th Street, photographed in August 2026. In the 2008 movie Carrie takes her new assistant, Louise, for cocktails at Bemelmans Bar, the hotel's bar named for Ludwig Bemelmans, the Madeline author who painted its murals. Bemelmans is open to anyone, no room key needed, and it is the most grown-up drink on this walk: low lights, a pianist and those whimsical Central Park murals on every wall.