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Meeting Spaces

The Neighborhood Preservation Center has two meeting rooms for weekday, weekend, and evening use by groups working toward the preservation and improvement of the urban environment.  Since opening, over 110 groups have used the Center for organizational meetings, workshops, and other uses.  

Each room holds approximately 20 people.  The two rooms are connected by a 5’10" sliding door to form a larger space that can accommodate 40-45 people maximum.    

Audiovisual equipment and kitchen facilities are available. The user group is responsible for any set up and clean up of the meeting room and kitchen.

Please note that receptions and exhibitions are not permitted.  

Room Dimensions: neighborhood preservation center

Meeting Room One (The Purple Room) is 15’ x 17’10’’
Meeting Room Two (The Green Room) is 15’ x 19’ (at its deepest point)

Meeting Room Guidelines: 

Please view our meeting room policies .

Application Procedure:

Please send a meeting room reservation request to the Neighborhood Preservation Center by fax at 212-471-9987 or email to

meeting-rooms@neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org.  A request must be submitted to reserve a meeting room and must include the following:

  • Date of meeting
  • Starting time (including set-up time)
  • Ending time (including clean-up time)
  • Number of rooms needed
  • Number of people expected to attend
  • Nature of meeting (staff retreat, organizational meeting, workshop, etc.)

The Center responds to meeting room requests within one week.  If the space is available for the requested time, you will be sent a reservation form to fill out, sign, and send back to us to confirm your meeting.  Please contact us if you would like a copy of guidelines for use of the rooms.  

 

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Rates:

Inside Constituency*/Volunteer                      $20/hour

Inside & Outside Constituency/Paid Staff     $30/hour

For-profit                                                              $60/hour  

* Our constituency includes non-profit groups or civic associations working toward the preservation and improvement of the urban environment.

The fees are $20/hour per room for all-volunteer groups within our constituency and $30/hour per room for organizations with paid staff, both inside and outside of our constituency. There is a two-hour minimum for room rental. Additional fees for kitchen use and equipment vary. 

Requests from for-profit groups are considered on a case-by-case basis, and the fee varies. The minimum is $60/hour per room.

Groups who have used our services thus far include:

121 East 10th Street Owners' Association

Alice  Austen House

Bronx Land Trust

Brooklyn Historical Society

Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant

Citizens Emergency Committee to Preserve Preservation

Citizens for NYC

CITYterm at the Masters School

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation

Endangered Buildings Initiative, a special project of the New York Landmarks Conservancy

Five Dutch Days in Five Boroughs

Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works

Four Borough Alliance

Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts

Green Guerillas

Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

High School for the Preservation Arts

Historic  Districts Council

Historic House Trust of New York City

Jackson Heights Local Development Corporation

International  Preservation Trades Workshop 2001 Project

The Leading Institute

Manhattan Community Board 11, Cultural Affairs Committee

Manhattan Land Trust

Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society

Minerva  Partners

Neighborhood Open Space Coalition/Friends of Gateway

Neighbors  Helping Neighbors

New  York City Parks Department & City Parks Foundation

New York City Community Garden Coalition

The New York City Marble Cemetery

New York City Mountain Bike Association

New York Preservation Archive Project

New York University Urban Design & Architecture Program

New York University Metropolitan Studies Program

The Nonprofit Connection

Partners  for Sacred Places

Peak Oil NYC

Pratt  Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development

Preservation  Alumni, Alumni Association of Columbia  University's Program in Historic Preservation

Preservation  League of New York State

Preservation Volunteers

Professional Archaeologists of New York City

Riverside Park Foundation

Save Judson Church

Save Poe Advocacy Group

S.S. Columbia

St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund

Trust For  Public Land

University of Pennsylvania Department of City & Regional Planning

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