Venue guides

Filming at NYC's event venues: the practical guides.

Every venue guide here answers the questions a planner actually has about coverage: what the room's light does, who controls the AV and rigging, and what to ask the venue before you book a photo or video crew. Built from each venue's own published specs and policies, with sources linked.

Honest framing, once for the whole library: these are planning guides written from public information. Where we haven't worked a room, the guide says so and reasons from the specs. The library grows as we add venues.

Gotham Hall

A 70-foot ceiling under a 3,000-square-foot stained-glass dome, and a split vendor policy: photography is open, but lighting and rigging run through two exclusive in-house partners. What that means for your coverage plan.

Midtown · galas, launches

Cipriani Wall Street

A 1907 banking hall with marble, columns, and evening light that comes entirely from the production rig. How to plan clean coverage in a room built for drama.

Financial District · galas, corporate dinners

Pier Sixty

Twenty thousand square feet, column-free, floor-to-ceiling windows on the Hudson, with blackout shades that change the whole lighting plan. Plus a published, non-exclusive vendor list.

Chelsea Piers · galas, conferences, holiday parties

Convene, The Forum

The town-hall room: 536 capacity, natural light, five 137-inch screens, and an in-house AV team with a formal outside-vendor policy worth reading before you bring your own crew.

Midtown · town halls, all-hands

Tribeca Rooftop + 360°

A glass atrium, a 65-foot skylight, and an 18,000-square-foot open roof, daylight-driven coverage with a hard sunset deadline. How to schedule the shots around the light.

Tribeca · launches, galas

The Glasshouse

75,000 square feet on one floor with glass on all four sides, plus 49 chandeliers that can change color on a cue. What that means for a shoot, day or night.

Hudson Yards · galas, launches

Daintree LES

A moody, low-lit indoor lounge and an open-sky rooftop terrace in the same booking. Two different lighting problems, one event.

Lower East Side · launches, VIP receptions

Liberty Warehouse

West-facing event rooms over New York Harbor. What direct low sun through the windows means for an evening shoot, and how to plan around it.

Red Hook, Brooklyn · dinners, off-sites

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Tell me the venue and the run of show, and I'll come back with a coverage plan and a fixed price. If your venue isn't in the library yet, ask anyway, reading a room from its specs is the first thing we do on every job.

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