New York Venue Directory
Conference Centers, Convention Centers & Auditoriums 390 for receptions, a 40-seat boardroom, and a 100-seat auditorium. (15-30 Petracca Place, Queens, 718.640.2000) COLEMAN CENTER
This meeting complex has 12 rooms on two floors. On the 23rd floor, the center’s largest room has 2,208 square feet of space and seats 99 classroom-style. A lounge on that floor seats 38 or holds 60 for receptions. The 22nd floor has four meeting rooms; the largest seats 44 classroom-style. (810 Seventh Ave., 23rd Floor, 212.541.4600) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY—ALFRED LERNER HALL
This modern facility—the university’s student center— has three boardrooms (each seats 15 conference-style), 11 meeting rooms, and an auditorium. The auditorium and its balcony seat 1,347 theater-style or 600 banquet-style. (2920 Broadway, 212.854.5800) NEW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY—FACULTY HOUSE5
A collegiate landmark since 1923, the Faculty House on the Morning Heights campus of Columbia University underwent an 18-month top-to-bottom restoration and reopened in September 2009. Fitted with new audiovisual technology and renovations to be more versatile, the 38,000-square-foot redbrick and limestone building now offers four floors of meeting space. The main space is the Presidential Ballroom—three large rooms and a reception foyer on the third floor that join to offer 3,475 square feet of space. (64 Morningside Drive, 212.854.1200) CONCIERGE CONFERENCE & EVENT CENTER
The 18,000-square-foot Concierge Center features a 171-seat theater, a 3,000-square-foot ballroom, a boardroom, a teleconference suite, and array of dedicated seminar and breakout rooms. The venue, two blocks from Grand Central Station, is managed by Marenzana Conference Services. (780 Third Ave., 212.735.0011) CONFERENCE CENTER AT THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
Built in 1926, this Romanesque-style structure houses Hosack Hall, a two-tiered, 5,900-square-foot auditorium with 550 seats and a stage. A wood-paneled boardroom seats 10 to 50 at a conference table. Room 20 seats 200 theater-style. The academy’s presidents gallery is a multifunction space that seats 150 theater-style or 108
banquet-style, or holds 200 for receptions. (1216 Fifth Ave., 212.822.7272) DIGITAL SANDBOX NETWORK EVENT CENTERS
Digital Sandbox operates three locations. The 24,000square-foot financial district complex can be broken into eight separate rooms, plus a prefunction area. The venue holds 450 for receptions or seats 200 classroom-style. The 7,000-square-foot space in the Flatiron district has three rooms, a bar and bistro, and a prefunction space; it holds as many as 225 for receptions or seats 100 classroom-style. The 11,428-square-foot Long Island Technology Center has four rooms, and a prefunction space, and can hold as many as 1,000. (55 Broad St., 41 Madison Ave., 212.482.0851; 3500 Sunrise Hwy., Great Neck, N.Y., 631.859.0500) DOWNTOWN CONFERENCE CENTER
With 30 rooms on six floors, this center, managed by Benchmark Hospitality International, includes DVD players, VCRs, automatic drop screens, LCD projectors, and plasma screens; videoconferencing is also available. The largest meeting room seats 80, and a penthouse boardroom seats 20 and is equipped with a 42-inch plasma screen. (157 William St., 212.618.6990) EXECUTIVE SUITES
Rental company Executive Suites has seven furnished meeting rooms. The rooms do not interconnect—the smallest seats six; the largest seats 42. The center provides audiovisual equipment and permits catering. (1120 Ave. of the Americas, 4th Floor, 212.626.6800) FASHION GROUP INTERNATIONAL
Keating First and Keating Third auditoriums seat 500 and 270, respectively. The McGinley Center ballroom seats 600 lecture-style or 280 banquet-style. (441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, 718.817.4339) THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Formerly home to the B. Altman department store, this massive building now houses CUNY’s graduate programs. Its ninth-floor skylight room holds 74 for seated events or receptions. Nine conference rooms each seat 40 theaterstyle. The Martin E. Segal Theatre seats 70, and Proshansky Auditorium seats 389. (365 Fifth Ave., 212.817.7150) HQ GLOBAL WORKPLACES
This 46th-floor meeting center has two conference rooms that have screens, projectors, and videoconferencing capabilities; two rooms each seat 16, and a training room seats 40. (140 Broadway, 46th Floor, 212.858.7500) JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
A part of the City University of New York, the college has three conference rooms that seat 18, 36, and 80. Two lecture halls at the 59th Street building seat 168 and 195. The 10th Avenue location has an 80-seat lecture hall, as well as a theater that seats 605. (445 West 59th St., 899 10th Ave., 212.237.8611; theater: 212.237.8157) JOHN ROBERT POWERS
Meeting space is available weekdays at this facility, which has a large room with windows and four adjoining offices. The main room seats 75 theater-style and has two screens with VHS and DVD capabilities. Each office seats 10. (424 West 33rd St., 212.604.4280)
The fashion-industry nonprofit’s headquarters feature a seventh-floor, 650-square-foot conference room with four windows facing the side of the New York Public Library. The room seats 100 theater-style or holds 125 for receptions and has a DVD player and microphones. Caterers have access to a warming kitchen. The space is available for a maximum of four hours at a time. (8 West 40th St., 7th Floor, 212.302.5511 ext. 26)
KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, LINCOLN CENTER CAMPUS
This meeting space is in the lobby of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies building. The three meeting rooms are modern spaces; the largest seats 75 people theater-style, and the other two hold, respectively, 38 and 26 theater-style. (281 Park Ave. South, 212.777.4800)
At Fordham’s Manhattan location, the Lowenstein Building contains the 400-seat Pope Auditorium, as well as a lounge that seats 150 theater-style or 200 banquetstyle, or holds 235 for receptions. Two meeting rooms each seat 50 and classrooms seat 45 each, all available when the university’s academic schedule permits. A lounge and classrooms are equipped with Internet access. (113 West 60th St., 212.636.7900) FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, ROSE HILL CAMPUS
The university’s main campus includes the O’Keefe Commons conference space, which seats 200 lecturestyle, and Collins Auditorium, which seats 450. The
The college makes available the Mac Center rotunda, which seats 700 or holds as many as 1,000 for receptions. The rotunda can be divided into five sections. The center’s Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts Center seats 700, and the Mac Playhouse seats 300. (2001 Oriental Blvd., Brooklyn, 718.368.5028) LAURA PARSONS PRATT CONFERENCE CENTER
LIGHTHOUSE EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE CENTER
The Midtown headquarters of Lighthouse International, an organization that assists the visually impaired, includes a 250-seat theater; Benay Venuta Hall, an event space that holds 257 for receptions or 252 seated theaterstyle; and a reception space that holds 150. Fourteen meeting rooms are also available, the largest seating 90 theater-style. (111 East 59th St., 212.821.9427)