The New Yorker Hotel hosts corporate meetings, conferences, weddings, receptions and private celebrations in eight event spaces that add up to 23,000 sq ft and more than 1,200 guests in total. The largest room, the Grand Ballroom, takes up to 600 people. The hotel stands at 481 Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, between 34th and 35th Streets.
Seminars and company events
For business events the hotel offers flexible layouts, audiovisual equipment, video conferencing, fiber internet, table and chair hire and an in-house events team that follows the project from the first request to the day itself. Four suites on the third floor suit board meetings, training days and breakout sessions, while the two ballrooms on the second floor take plenary sessions, product launches and award dinners. Groups can also book a full buyout of the hotel. The location, close to the Javits Center and Hudson Yards, makes it a practical base for delegates attending trade shows.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings, rehearsal dinners, receptions, anniversaries and milestone birthdays take place in the same Art Deco rooms. The Grand Ballroom and the Crystal Ballroom are the usual choices for a seated reception, and the Sky Lounge on the 39th floor works for smaller gatherings with views toward the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty.
Rooms and capacities
The Grand Ballroom covers 6,000 sq ft and holds up to 600 guests. The Crystal Ballroom covers 3,250 sq ft under a 30-foot ceiling and holds up to 250. On the third floor, Sutton Place offers 1,700 sq ft, the Herald Square Suite 1,620 sq ft, the Gramercy Park Suite 1,364 sq ft and the Kips Bay Suite 728 sq ft. The Sky Lounge covers 900 sq ft.
The hotel also markets three rooms in the Manhattan Center next door: The Grand, a 10,000 sq ft ballroom for dinners and performances; the Hammerstein Ballroom, with balconies, opera boxes and dressing rooms; and The Bank, which takes up to 400 guests in dining or classroom layouts.
Accommodation
Guest rooms range from Metro and Executive rooms, some with city views and some accessible, to Queen Suites and Queen Terrace Suites. Group room blocks can be combined with an event.
Catering
Catering is handled by the hotel. On site, Butcher & Banker is a steakhouse on the vault level, Trattoria Bianca serves Italian cooking and accepts private dining requests for lunches and dinners, and the Tick Tock Diner next to the hotel serves classic diner food.
History and setting
Designed by Sugarman and Berger, the 43-story hotel opened on January 2, 1930. Nikola Tesla lived there for ten years, NBC broadcast big band shows from its Terrace Room from 1939, and Hillary Clinton gave her 2016 concession speech in the Grand Ballroom. The hotel closed in 1972, reopened in 1994, was restored from 2006 and joined LOTTE Hotels in 2025.
Getting there
Penn Station and Moynihan Train Hall are about two minutes away on foot, with Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, NJ Transit and several subway lines. Madison Square Garden is across the street. The hotel has no garage; discounted self parking is available at 1 Penn Plaza.
