No photo of this bar survives from the 2008 site.

Inc. Lounge (Time Hotel)

Formerly Time Lounge

224 W. 49th St. · btwn 7th & 8th Ave.
Midtown West, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed; now LeGrande Lounge

Checked October 15, 2026.

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Overview

Red Velvet and black walls make for a decidedly 80s twist on rock and roll chic. Aside from hotel guests an odd cast of refugees from the Time Square mayhem have made it their local.

History

The eighties gave way to the sixties

Inc. was the Time hotel's second-floor lounge, run by Ric Addison of Ava Lounge and Rm.Fifty5, with a jet-black bar flanked by patent leather settees and curvy striped leather club chairs^{1, 2, 3}. There was an antique-inspired black lacquer pool table, and the drink to order was the Gin & Sin: Bombay Sapphire, Chambord, and lemon and lime juice^{2, 3}. We called it a decidedly eighties twist on rock-and-roll chic, and a local for refugees from the Times Square mayhem. Inc. is gone, and since a multimillion-dollar renovation unveiled in December 2015 the second floor has been LeGrande, a restaurant and cocktail lounge that the Rockwell Group modeled on the gentlemen's clubs of the 1960s^{3, 4, 5}.

Sources

Researched October 2026.

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