Corporate Event Planning - New York Style

Many people consider Times Square the center of the Universe.  It certainly is the center of New York.  And while it is not possible to bottle up the experience of being amidst all the lights, noise and energy and take it home with you, in corporate event planning, there are fresh ways to create or enhance the “New York Experience.”

Corporate Event Planning- New York Style has all the qualities you associate with the “city that never sleeps.” Just like the city itself, Corporate Event Planning- New York Style is based on energy, diversity, humor, action and heart.

Reception

How about a way to combine a lively welcome reception with your New York souvenir shopping? Begin with blown up images of Times Square and Broadway displayed around the perimeter of the event space, creating a sense energy and fun.  Gift shop souvenirs are artfully arranged on cocktail tables, hi-tops and bars and become not only décor and conversation pieces, but also give-ways that attendees can leave with at the end of the evening.  Napkin ties are made from souvenir key chains, pre-stamped NYC postcards are scattered about bar and buffet tables, coffee is served in “I (Heart) NY” mugs and Statue of Liberty and Empire State statues or NY skyline water globes are cleverly displayed as table centerpieces. 

The entertainment for this evening is also inspired by the Times Square surroundings.  Acts and walk-around characters moving through the event include the Naked Cowboy, bucket drummers, break dancers, caricaturists, 3-card monte players, a classic NYPD officer character, a cab driver, watch salesman character… and even a Hot Dog Vendor.  A great band, street musicians and fun activities will round out the experience.

Group Activity

New Yorkers are always searching for the perfect bagel. A unique, interactive group activity is the “Build your own Bagel” experience.  All of the ingredients are on hand; fresh bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon, red onions and tomato.  An engaging, lower east side deli character leads the activity, giving instructions and entertains the group with instructions on how to talk like a New Yorker as well as how to build the perfect bagel.  He begins with an oversized blueprint of the perfect bagel architecture – pointing out the finer points of the perfect New York Bagel.

Evening Event

Corporate Event Planning- New York Style incorporates all that is New York. One idea for an evening event is to create an experiential journey through the diverse arts of the city.

Not much surprises New Yorkers; it’s a city of coincidences and a city of contrast. Where else can one see an afternoon performance at the Met then catch the subway to Soho to hear an a cappella group serenade in high street-corner style? Or, watch the ballet company at Julliard dancing past the window behind the hip-hop crew in the courtyard.  That unique dichotomy is the inspiration for this evening event - a celebration of the artistic diversity that exemplifies New York style.

The evening event concept features a series of New York City vignettes covering all the many flavors of entertainment that makes New York so vibrant.  From the spicy and passionate Latin dancers of Spanish Harlem, to jazz and opera at Lincoln Center, from a Street Corner Symphony in Soho to the lights of Broadway, you experience true New York style.