# Looking for NYC Party Venue

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-nyc-party-venue/226474>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 28, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-nyc-party-venue/226474 "2004-01-28T23:07:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![braintree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@braintree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/braintree)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-nyc-party-venue/226474/1 "2004-01-28T23:07:13Z")

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My boss, a former Frenchy, wants to have a party celebrating the fifth anniversary of her becoming a citizen of the world’s newest pariah state. She envisions a small , intimate gathering of fifteen to twenty close personal friends to spend the evening festively avoiding questioning her judgment. There will be food, wine and cake. She’d also like to have a bit of space for swing dancing to music provided by CDs. I have been charged with the responsibility of finding a suitable location. We’re looking either for a small bar or café that we can rent whole for the night or a place with a backroom. We’re in New York in the Flatiron district but would be willing to go uptown as far as the 50s and downtown as far as the water.

The problem is, I don’t know anyplace. My knowledge of the Big Apple had decayed remarkably in the last few years. I must confess to having devolved into another out-of-it, stay-at-home middle-aging fart who could care less for the decadent enticements of big city life. But you people aren’t like me. You’re young, vibrant and alive — too full of yourselves to fully appreciate the true, daunting tragedy of existence (oh, you think you do, but it’s just another adolescent pose — wait!). Surely you must have some apt suggestions up your sleeves to help me escape the natural consequence of my all too typically tired libido and intellect.

Won’t you please help?

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**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-nyc-party-venue/226474/2 "2004-01-29T03:43:11Z")

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The most important question – how much are you willing to spend per person? What’s the total – when you add in any fees, tax, gratuity, etc?

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**Author:** ![braintree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@braintree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/braintree)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-nyc-party-venue/226474/3 "2004-01-29T16:07:00Z")

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> [@delphica](#):
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> The most important question – how much are you willing to spend per person? What’s the total – when you add in any fees, tax, gratuity, etc?

Figure between $50 and $65. And it’d be entirely possible for us to take care of the cake and champagne ourselves.