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The ballroom set with rounds and a stage for a corporate event

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Four rooms, a garden on the water, and Vetro down the street

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162-45 Cross Bay Blvd

Howard Beach, New York

Under one roof on the bay

Every room sits under one roof along Jamaica Bay, so a ceremony, a cocktail hour and a dinner move without a single car ride in between. Same family since the doors opened in 1987. We’re ten minutes from JFK, with valet at the door.

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Room by room

From 65 guests to 575. Start with the number on your list, and your coordinator matches the room on the tour.

The Encore Ballroom set for a reception, with tall white centerpieces and a star inlaid in the floor
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The Encore

575 seated

The big room. Venetian glass chandeliers, an inlaid floor, and a retractable wall that brings the room in when the night is smaller.

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The Paragon set for dinner, salads at each place under drum chandeliers
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The Paragon

260 seated

Mirrored ceilings and elaborate stone floors, with its own entrance and cocktail space. Large enough for a full wedding, small enough that every table hears the toast.

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The Promenade, a skylit glass gallery with tables along its waterfront windows
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The Promenade

Cocktail hour

Glass the length of the water. Ten stations or more with the bay on one side, and nothing that needs decorating.

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The Rose Lounge, with magenta sofas, white armchairs and a red ceiling strung with lights
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Rose Lounge

65 seated

Its own bar under a canopy of lights. Showers and rehearsal dinners that turn into evenings.

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Russo’s Garden, a stone-paved courtyard ringed by trees and hedges
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Russo’s Garden

From 50 guests

Flagstone, clipped hedges and a waterfall, with the floating gazebo out on the water beyond. Guests walk straight inside for dinner.

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Vetro’s lounge, with sofas, crystal chandeliers and a colored glass panel
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Vetro

Two blocks south

Our restaurant and lounge two blocks south, run by the same family. Dinner the night before, brunch the morning after.

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A couple rising into the Encore on the hidden lift

The doors open and the room turns

A hidden elevator and a concealed staircase bring you down out of sight and set you in the middle of your own dance floor. The room is held dark while you are brought down. Like every room, it has Wi-Fi and its own screens, and more audio and video equipment is available to rent.

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Walk the rooms before you book

Walk the garden and the rooms while an event is being set, at the hour yours would begin, so you see the light you’ll actually have. Or call (718) 843-5055.

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