Jay Stein, CEO of Dream Hotel Group, says his company was instrumental in starting the rooftop bar craze.

“We were the first to do a velvet rope, to have a line around the block,” he says, while sitting at the Arizona Biltmore during the annual Lodging Conference.

The Dream Midtown and Dream Downtown properties in New York City routinely have people queuing up for access to elevators that will take them to a trendy bar with nearly 360-degree views of Manhattan.

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