Astor Center | Holiday Space Rentals & Packages
Astor Center is the perfect venue for your holiday celebration.
You can host an unforgettable event – large or small – in our impeccably restored spaces. Astor Center combines historical sophistication with modern-day amenities: exposed brick walls, vaulted ceilings, and large windows make the Gallery an elegant setting for a holiday dinner, a seasonal fundraiser, or any other holiday event. The Lounge, featuring a long mahogany bar and a demonstration kitchen, is the perfect space for holiday cocktail parties.
Space Rentals
The Gallery
- Seated Capacity: 100 dinner; 135 classroom setting
- Area: 1,728 square ft
- A 120-inch pull-down screen for our 4000-Lumen XGA Computer and Video Projector
- Podium with multi-input sound system can accommodate music or video from in-house cameras, laptops or MP3 players
- Presenters can control A/V system via wireless remote
- Two 360-degree cameras, fully joystick-controlled
- Wireless remote blackout shades
- Video from any facility at Astor Center can be streamed into the Gallery live
The Lounge
- Bar Capacity for four mixologists
- Showcase demonstration kitchen
- Banquette seating
- Plasma Screens
- Multi-input A/V system that can accommodate music & video from in-house cameras, laptops or MP3 players
The Study
- Specially designed light boxes at each seat for examining wine color
- Sinks with running water at each seat for discarding wine
- Stadium seats available for up to 36 participants
- 50-inch plasma screens wired to overhead cameras provide close-up views of presentations
The Kitchen
- Three Jade stoves each with a standard conduction oven and 18 burners total
- A full reach-in Traulsen Refrigeration Unit and Traulsen Freezer
- A double stacked Bloggett Convection Oven
- A Rationale combination oven
- A 600lb capacity Kold-Draft Ice Machine
- A suite of Viking tabletop appliances: mixers, food processors, induction burners, etc.
- Two 50-inch plasma screens wired to two overhead cameras provide close-up views of presentations
- Multi-input sound system can accommodate music or video from in-house cameras, laptops or MP3 players
Holiday Packages
The Kitchen
Up to 16 guests for cooking and 22 for cocktail making
- A Feast of Fishes: Italian Christmas Traditions
- The Greenmarket in Snow: A Northeastern Winter Feast
- Cooking for Sparkling Wines
- Cooking for Big Red Wines
- Cooking for a Crowd: Chilis, Braises and Stews
- Winter Warmers: A Hands on Cocktail Class
The Study
36 seated guests
- Holiday Punches: A Hands on Cocktail Class
- Hands-on Holiday Cocktails
- Whiskey and Cheese
- Discoveries from the Astor Cellar: Italy's Hidden Gems
- Mastering the Art of Blind Tasting