583 PARK AVENUE has had the privilege of kicking off 2016 with some truly memorable events. From milestone birthday celebrations to diversity awareness gatherings, 583 PARK AVENUE has started off the New Year with a bang. Below is a list of select highlights covering the first few months of 2016: Continue reading →
583 PARK AVENUE now offers Internet service at 100Mb/s via fiber optic cable—making it the fastest, most reliable Internet service a venue can provide. We installed a 100 megabit fiber optic pipeline into our building, which transmits data typically 100 times faster than DSL and copper cable.
A brief primer on the differences between fiber optic and copper cabling… Continue reading →
Choosing the right venue for a business event is critical—and, if location is the framework, then the theme is the wallpaper, lightning, and interior design for your whole effort. Once you have identified the key objectives for the event, it’s time to choose an identifiable and memorable theme.
The theme should coordinate with your objectives, be it “Back to the Future” recapping your year-end sales progress or “Don’t Stop Believing” circa 1981 to boost camaraderie at a corporate retreat.
Here are some best practices to help create a successful, endearing theme. Continue reading →
Catering is not a particularly dynamic field; changes are subtle and slow to occur. Having observed the catering scene in New York over the past 50 years, I have seen a few changes that perhaps suggest the changes in our tastes and priorities.
It appears to me that there has been a major shift in the amount of importance wine is given at events. When I started 50 years ago at the Plaza, guests giving a party would agonize over not only which wine to serve but what vintage it would be. The hotel had to maintain a large inventory of the world’s more desirable wines with a depth of vintages to answer the clients’ needs. In the 1980s when I was at the Pierre, guests still cared deeply about serving prestige wines at the more elaborate and social events. Even charities were genuinely concerned about the wine they were serving. If a family was having a lavish wedding or Bar Mitzvah, only Dom Perignon or Louis Roederer Cristal would suffice. The white wine was inevitably Puligny or Chassagne-Montrachetand the red at least the second wine of Lafite, Margaux or Latour. Continue reading →
