Castle Royale

Castle Royale is a catering hall at 92 Waverly Street in Yonkers, in a building that used to be the Polish Center. The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency records the conversion as a completed one million dollar project by Shreebalajee Corp., turning the former Polish Center into a catering facility for weddings and bar mitzvahs. That page was published in April 2019 and updated in December 2022, and it is the most solid document we have on this address. Everything else comes from marketplace listings: two ballrooms, the Empress at up to 600 and the Duchess at 150, a stage, a bridal suite, in house catering and bar, and a claim that only one wedding runs at a time. We could not load the venue’s own website from this session, and two different domains are given for it by different listings. Two listings also give two prices that do not reconcile with each other. Read the numbers section before you call, and take the call list with you.

The building was a Polish Center until a one million dollar conversion

The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency page is the closest thing to a primary record we could read, and it is a public agency document rather than the venue’s own marketing. It describes a completed project at 92 Waverly Street by Shreebalajee Corp., valued at one million dollars, which renovated the former Polish Center into a catering facility accommodating weddings, bar mitzvahs and more. The page was published on 14 April 2019 and updated on 10 December 2022. No founding year for the business and no architect are published anywhere.

Two ballrooms, 600 seats and a 32 foot stage, all of it second hand

Eventective describes multiple ballrooms handling affairs from 50 to 600 guests, naming the Empress Ballroom at 600 and the Duchess at 150. The Knot describes a 32 foot stage. A bridal suite with its own bathroom appears on more than one listing. None of this comes from the venue, because the venue’s site would not open for us, so treat every figure as something to confirm on a tour rather than something to plan around.

The claim worth chasing is exclusivity. WeddingWire states that the venue hosts only one wedding at a time. With two ballrooms in the same building that is a meaningful promise, and it is also the kind of promise that belongs in a contract rather than on a listing page. Ask for it in writing.

The Duchess at 150 is the room most couples will actually use

Six hundred is the headline and it is not the whole story. Eventective describes the building as handling affairs from 50 to 600 guests, which puts the Duchess Ballroom at 150 in the same building as a room four times its size. The Knot notes a figure of 300 or more alongside the 600, and WeddingWire mentions 300 in its highlights while listing up to 600 indoors.

Read that as a range of rooms rather than a single hall that shrinks. If your list is 140 people, ask to see the Duchess set for a wedding, ask what the minimum is in that room specifically, and ask whether the price per head changes between the two. Halls with a very large primary room often price the small one as an afterthought, in either direction.

Eventective and WeddingWire give two prices that cannot both be the headline

Eventective presents a food and beverage minimum of $5,000 to $7,000 per wedding for up to 600 people. WeddingWire gives a starting price of $16,300. Those are different kinds of number and both may be accurate, but nobody publishes the bridge between them and the venue publishes nothing at all. There is no per person rate anywhere, no site fee, no service charge and no gratuity policy.

So the arithmetic that decides your budget is missing, and we are not going to invent it by dividing one figure by another. Ask the venue for the per person rate at your guest count, the minimum and what it covers, the service charge, and how tax is applied. Ask for all four in one document before you compare this hall to anything else.

There are two candidate web addresses and neither would open

Eventective and VowVenue give castle-royale.com as the venue’s site. WeddingWire gives castleroyale.net. Neither loaded from this session, which is a restriction at our end rather than proof that anything is wrong with the business. What it does mean is that nothing on this page is first party. The listings on Eventective, The Knot, WeddingWire and VowVenue are current as of 11 September 2026 and carry the same address and the same phone number, which is reasonable evidence that the hall is trading.

Verifying a venue is usually a two minute job, and it was not one here. If you are serious about this room, do the thing we could not. Open the site, check that the address and phone match the listings, and ask the venue which domain is actually theirs. A hall with two competing domains in circulation is a hall where somebody else’s booking form could catch your deposit.

The agency record helps here as well. A named corporation completed a funded project at this address and the paperwork is public, which is a firmer footing than a listing page, and it gives you a company name to check against whatever appears on your contract.

The questions that will close the gaps

Ask for the per person rate at your guest count and your season. Ask what the minimum actually is and whether it is food and beverage only. Ask for the service charge and the tax treatment, and ask whether a maitre d or bridal attendant fee is added on top. Ask whether the Empress and the Duchess can run at the same time, and how the one wedding at a time rule is written into the contract. Ask about the end time, which nobody publishes. Ask what you may bring in beyond the cake, because the only vendor detail on record is in house catering and bar with outside cake allowed.

Settle one more thing early. No rain plan is published and no outdoor space is described in any listing, so an outdoor ceremony is a question here, not an assumption. If the ceremony and the dinner share a room, ask what the room looks like set for a ceremony and how long the turnover takes.