Grand Roosevelt Ballroom

The Grand Roosevelt Ballroom is one room, and the room is the point. It was built in 1904 at 2 Hudson Street in Yonkers, a Beaux-Arts building designed by G. Howard Chamberlain in an Italian Renaissance style. Inside are 30 foot ceilings, gold leaf detail, a raised stage, a balcony and a wooden dance floor. The owners say a $2 million restoration has recently been completed. Anyone can book it. There is no club here and no sponsor to find: the hall publishes office hours, a public contact page and a Get A Quote form, and Zola, WeddingWire, Eventective and PartySlate all list it with no membership condition attached. What the website will not give you is a number. No per person rate is published, no room fee, no food and beverage minimum, no service charge and no end time. Capacity is the other soft spot. The venue says up to 600 people, and three marketplace listings say 525, 550 and 587. Below is everything we could source, with the source named against each figure.

The room dates from 1904 and it reads as a period room, not a renovation of one

The hall opened in 1904 as a Beaux-Arts structure by G. Howard Chamberlain, done in an Italian Renaissance manner. The ceilings run 30 feet. There is gold leaf detail, a balcony over the floor, a raised stage and a wooden dance floor, with a private bridal suite off the main room. Eventective records the same 1904 Beaux-Arts construction date independently of the venue, so the period claim is not something invented for a wedding audience last season.

The hall’s own account of its past is short. It says Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt were hosted in the building, and that performers including Clara Bow and Helen Hayes appeared there. We would have liked more detail. The deeper history page at /about.php returned an HTTP 409 error when we tried to read it on 11 September 2026, so the home page is the only first party account of the building we have.

Four sources give four capacities, from 525 seated up to 600

The venue’s own figure is up to 600 people in the Grand Ballroom. Eventective gives a total capacity of 587 with 550 in the ballroom itself, across roughly 5,000 square feet. Zola gives up to 525 seated, with a banquet room range of 300 to 585. We are recording the venue’s 600 as the primary figure because it is first party, and the other three stay on the page rather than being quietly dropped.

For a wedding this matters in one specific way. A 600 person ballroom rating usually assumes a room set without a band, a bar, a dance floor and a sweetheart table taking space out of the middle. Ask for the seated capacity with your actual floor plan, in writing, before you build a guest list around the headline number.

The balcony is the other thing to ask about. A balcony over a dance floor is either a gift to your photographer or a section of the room where a third of your guests spend the evening apart from everybody else. Ask whether balcony seating counts toward the capacity figure you are quoted, and whether it is used for dining, for the band or for nothing at all.

Nothing is priced, so your budget conversation starts from a blank page

We looked at the venue’s site, its Zola listing and its Eventective listing on 11 September 2026. There is no per person rate anywhere. There is no room or site fee, no food and beverage minimum, no stated guest minimum, no service charge, no administrative fee and no maitre d’ fee. Enquiries route to a Get A Quote form.

Two marketplace figures exist and both need qualifying. Eventective publishes a starting figure of $2,000, which is a total for an event and not a per person rate, and the venue does not corroborate it. Zola publishes no price at all and tells couples to request a quote. Zola does separately state there is no site fee for wedding ceremonies or receptions. That would be useful if the hall said it, and the hall does not.

We will not turn the $2,000 into a per head number for you. Dividing a package total by a guest count is how a figure that meant one thing becomes a figure that means nothing, and it is the most common way wedding pricing gets misreported. If the hall quotes you a flat room rate, keep it flat in your spreadsheet and put catering on its own line.

Outside catering is the claim worth chasing, and the hall has not made it

Eventective states that on site catering is available and that outside catering is allowed, with a fully equipped kitchen. Zola separately notes full kitchen access. The venue runs a catering section on its own site and publishes no vendor policy of any kind. For a room this size the difference is not cosmetic. Permission to bring in your own caterer for 300 guests can move a budget by tens of thousands of dollars, and nobody should plan around a marketplace summary of it.

Get the answer in the contract. Ask what the in house kitchen charges. Ask whether an outside caterer is permitted and what the kitchen access fee is. Ask whether alcohol must come through the house.

Alcohol is usually where a room rental model breaks down. Halls that allow an outside caterer often still hold the liquor licence themselves, which means the bar is priced by the venue no matter who cooks. If that is the case here, the bar package is the single biggest line in your quote and it should be the first thing you ask to see written down.

What to confirm at the Grand Roosevelt before a deposit moves

Confirmed seated capacity with your table plan. The room rate and what is inside it. The service charge, administrative fee and how sales tax is applied. A hard end time and the overtime rate per hour. Whether another event can run in the building on your date. Whether outside catering is genuinely allowed and on what terms.

One practical note on reaching them. The venue publishes (914) 964-9444 on its own site and Eventective lists a different number, 914-909-0257. Use the number on the venue’s own page, and if the two lead to different people, that is itself worth knowing before you send a deposit.