The Fifth Avenue Hotel hosts executive meetings, presentations, panel discussions, private dinners, galas and weddings for groups of 12 to 185 guests, with 148 rooms and suites for those who stay. The hotel occupies a 1907 mansion and an adjoining glass tower at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 28th Street, in the NoMad district of Manhattan.
Seminars and company events
The largest room, The Grand Salon, suits presentations, panels and corporate dinners for up to 160 people in theater style. Smaller boards and leadership teams can use The Club Room, where a mirror turns into a presentation screen. For groups that book ten rooms or more, the hotel arranges group stays for corporate travel, with butler service and use of the hotel's complimentary house car. The events team can also set up activities in the hotel and around the city.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel hosts ceremonies, receptions, engagement parties, rehearsal dinners and small weddings. Candlelit ceremonies take place in The Conservatory, and receptions of up to 125 wedding guests in The Grand Salon. Event planners at the hotel help with each stage, and wedding parties can stay together under the group booking offer.
Rooms and capacities
The Grand Salon is the ballroom, on the third floor of the mansion. It covers 2,573 square feet under 12-foot ceilings, with windows on Fifth Avenue and 28th Street. It seats 150 for dinner, 160 in theater style and 185 for a standing reception. The room is built as a box within a box for sound insulation and has its own restrooms, kitchen, coat check and audiovisual equipment. The Cellar must be booked with it as the pre-function space.
The Conservatory and The Study are hired together and cover 871 square feet: 40 seated or 85 for a reception. The Study, with Murano glass chandeliers, serves as a pre-function room, while The Conservatory has hanging ferns, mirrored trellis walls and a large skylight.
The Club Room, above Café Carmellini, seats 18 at one custom wooden table. The Cellar is a private dining room with its own entrance from Fifth Avenue. The Vault, the former bank vault, seats 12.
Accommodation
The hotel has 103 rooms and 45 suites, split between the mansion and a 24-story tower. The mansion holds 21 rooms and suites plus the Flâneur Penthouse, which takes the whole seventh floor. Tower rooms look out over Manhattan. Every room has a stocked maxibar, and guests can reach a butler by text. A 24-hour fitness center is on level -2.
Catering
All event food comes from the team behind Café Carmellini, the restaurant of chef Andrew Carmellini, with Italian and French cooking. The Cellar serves four- to six-course menus, and The Vault a family-style menu offered only in that room. The Portrait Bar serves cocktails by a carved stone fireplace.
History and setting
The mansion went up in 1907 and was once a private home, a gallery and, in the early 1900s, the Second National Bank, whose vault is now The Vault. Designer Martin Brudnizki decorated both buildings, and photographs by William Klein, Gordon Parks and Melvin Sokolsky hang in the public rooms.
Getting there
The address is 1 West 28th Street, New York, NY 10001. The 28 Street subway station on Broadway is one block west, and Penn Station is a short walk away. Valet parking is available for overnight guests.
