Studio 1720
From $875 / 4 hr
The birthday floor for big groups — space for food, gifts, and dancing up to 60.
Birthday blocks from $495 / 3 hr
Birthday Party Venue NYC
Celebrate your birthday in a photogenic studio loft on the 21st floor of Midtown Manhattan, with flat blocks from $495 for 3 hours. Budgeting stays simple: bring the cake, the playlist, and the people — the bright open floor, the skyline windows, and the flexibility are already here.
Overview
Birthdays that don't look like the back room of a bar.
Match Studios rents its Midtown Manhattan studio lofts at 545 8th Ave as birthday party venues, with blocks from $495 for 3 hours in the 750 sq ft Studio 2110 and from $875 for 4 hours in the 1,850 sq ft Studio 1720. Every booking is private to your group and includes the open floor, window light, and elevator access near Penn Station.
The idea
Rent a blank, beautiful room and make it yours.
A birthday here starts from zero in the best way. No sticky floors, no house decor fighting your theme, no strangers at the next table. You get a sunlit loft with white walls and skyline windows — then it becomes a dessert bar with balloon arches, a taco night with one long table, a 40th with a slideshow of four decades on a 4K projector, or a dance party once the cake is cleared. The room doesn't impose a style, which is exactly why themed birthdays work so well in it.
Decorate freely within house rules — tape-safe surfaces, balloon-friendly ceilings
One long banquet table or scattered cocktail rounds — your call
Slideshow or video montage via projector ($35) or 55" TV ($20)
Playlist on your speaker, or add ours with two mics for toasts ($40)
Which floor
Match the room to the guest list.
For 30 people and a dance corner, book Studio 1720: 1,850 sq ft, two zones so the food table doesn't compete with the dancing, and blackout capability for evening mood in daylight hours. For 12 friends and a serious dinner, Studio 2110's 750 sq ft keeps everyone in one conversation with the city lights behind them. Both floors are yours exclusively for the block — no shared spaces, no venue staff hovering.
Studio 2110
From $495 / 3 hr
Intimate loft for dinner-scale birthdays with golden-hour window light.
All event formats
Compare birthday blocks with every other event the studios host.
The photos
The birthday photos are the souvenir.
These rooms are photography studios first, and it shows in every phone shot your guests take: even light, clean backgrounds, 12 ft ceilings that don't crop heads out of group photos. Plenty of hosts book a photographer for the first hour and get portraits of every guest as the party favor — and if you want to go further, the same studios run full headshot and portrait setups through the startup headshot day and brand content formats.
Startup Headshot Day
The group-portrait format, easily repurposed for a birthday photo hour.
Brand Content Use Case
How creators shoot content in the space — relevant for influencer birthdays.
Corporate Event Space
Marking a work milestone instead? The corporate page covers invoicing and COI.
Budget
Real numbers for a real birthday budget.
Marketplace data puts average Midtown venue rates around $328–435 per hour. A birthday here is a flat block: $495 for 3 hours or $660 for 4 in Studio 2110; from $875 for 4 hours in Studio 1720. A typical 4-hour, 35-guest birthday in 1720 — with six tables, thirty chairs, the speaker, and after-party cleaning — totals $1,329. The same evening at average Midtown hourly rates would pass that before the cake came out.
Service details
Why birthdays work well here.
Best for
- Milestone birthdays — 30th, 40th, 50th and beyond
- Adult birthday dinners and dessert parties
- Photo-heavy birthdays with a photographer
- Themed parties that need a blank canvas
- Daytime birthday brunches with natural light
- Joint birthdays and friend-group celebrations
Available
- Private studio floor for the length of your block
- Bright, camera-friendly loft backdrop for photos
- Freedom to decorate within house rules (no confetti/glitter without approval)
- Elevator access for cake, gifts, and decorations
- Wi-Fi and simple A/V add-on options
- Optional folding tables ($10 each), chairs ($3 each), and post-party cleaning ($149)
Booking flow
How to book your birthday.
Step 1
Count your guests
Under ~25, book Studio 2110; more than that, take Studio 1720 and pick the guest tier that matches your list.
Step 2
Block enough hours
Most birthdays run 4–5 hours including decorating time and pack-out. Setup happens inside your block, so pad it.
Step 3
Add the extras
Tables, chairs, speaker, projector for the montage, and $149 cleaning if you'd rather not break down at midnight.
Step 4
Celebrate
Bring cake, candles, decorations within the rules, and your people. The room does the rest.
FAQ
Birthday party venue NYC FAQ
How much does a birthday party venue cost in NYC?
Midtown Manhattan venues typically average about $328–435 per hour on rental marketplaces. Match Studios birthday blocks start at $495 for 3 hours in Studio 2110 — around $165 per hour — and from $875 for 4 hours in the 1,850 sq ft Studio 1720, so the whole party can cost less than 90 minutes at an average Midtown venue.
Can I bring my own birthday cake, food, and decorations?
Yes — cake, light food, and non-messy drinks are welcome. Balloons and most decorations are fine as long as they don't mark walls or floors; confetti, glitter, open flame beyond standard birthday candles, and anything requiring installation need advance approval.
How many people fit for a birthday party?
For a big birthday, Studio 1720 handles up to 60 guests with room for a food table, a lounge corner, and a dance-floor-sized open area. For a dinner-party-scale birthday, the 750 sq ft Studio 2110 keeps a smaller group close and comfortable.
Is the space good for birthday photos?
Very. These are working photo studios, so the light is the best part: south-facing windows, white walls, 12 ft ceilings, and skyline views. Many hosts hire a photographer for the first hour — or book a photo-shoot birthday where portraits of the guests are the entertainment.
Can we play music and bring a speaker?
Yes. Bring your own speaker or add the 500-watt speaker with two microphones for $40 — it's plenty for toasts, playlists, and dancing at a private party, while staying within what a 21st-floor commercial building can host.
How long should I book for a birthday?
Most birthdays book 4–5 hours: about an hour to set up and decorate, two to three hours of party, and time to pack out. A 4-hour block is $660 in Studio 2110; 5 hours is $825. Remember that setup and breakdown happen inside your booked time.
What happens after the party — do we have to clean?
You take out what you brought in, or add the after-event cleaning service for $149 and leave the reset to us. Either way there's no percentage service fee or mandatory staffed package — the block price plus your chosen add-ons is the whole bill.
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