Upper Story’s capable team has over 20 collective years of event and hospitality experience. From full service event planning to innovative menu development, we pride ourselves in creating remarkable experiences for your special occasion.
Situated on the cusp of midtown Manhattan and the Upper East Side, Upper Story’s 14th floor location in the iconic Decoration & Design building is easily accessible from anywhere in New York City. With expansive views of its surrounding neighborhoods, Upper Story’s prominent location makes an ideal meeting point for both casual lunches and more formal events.
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Address: | D&D Building 979 Third Avenue, 14th Floor New York NY 10022 |
Phone: | 212.644.9394 |
Welcome to Upper Story by Charlie Palmer, a premier private event destination in Manhattan’s iconic D&D building. With breathtaking city views from its 14th floor oversized windows and expansive balcony, Upper Story is a luxurious and contemporary setting for your next celebration.
With a modern yet classic design approach, Upper Story offsets a soft color palette with dark nuances that complement both the daytime and nighttime views beyond Upper Story’s 1000-square foot balcony, creating an elegant backdrop for uniquely themed private events, fundraisers, weddings, and more.
The easily accessible midtown location, ideal for social and corporate functions of all occasions, houses space for groups of up to 300 for cocktail receptions and 180 seated. Overseen by renowned chef Charlie Palmer, Upper Story turns out thoughtful menus, flawless service, and creative ideas for events of all shapes and sizes.
Welcome to the
all-new Upper Story
by Charlie Palmer
For over 15 years, visitors to the D&D Building have enjoyed Chef Charlie Palmer’s Astra café menus. We are now welcoming guests with a renewed approach to our progressive American inspired menus, keeping the emphasis on seasonal and local ingredients. Whether joining us for a design meeting or a casual lunch, Upper Story is a top choice for quick, tasty and healthy lunches at the crossroads of Midtown and the Upper East Side.
Upper Story is open for lunch Monday to Friday, from 11:30am to 3pm.
UPPER STORY CAFÉ
BY CHARLIE PALMER
For private events, Upper Story can be divided into two separate spaces accommodating 80 guests and 100 guests for seated affairs; 180 when combined. Additionally, the venue can provide state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment as well as a green room or bridal suite for last minute preparations.
As the quintessential Manhattan event space, Upper Story’s breathtaking views and understated elegance create the perfect place to say, “I do.” The 1000 square-foot balcony and floor-to-ceiling windows offer an idyllic backdrop for metropolitan weddings. From the signature Charlie Palmer food, sophisticated service and décor to careful guidance and planning expertise, your wedding celebration will come together seamlessly, amazing your friends and family with each and every detail.
As the quintessential Manhattan event space, Upper Story’s breathtaking views and understated elegance create the perfect place to say, “I do.” The 1000 square-foot balcony and floor-to-ceiling windows offer an idyllic backdrop for metropolitan weddings. From the signature Charlie Palmer food, sophisticated service and décor to careful guidance and planning expertise, your wedding celebration will come together seamlessly, amazing your friends and family with each and every detail.
From showers and rehearsal dinners to milestone anniversaries and birthdays, Upper Story is here to make your celebrations momentous. Entertaining friends and family is both delicious and seamless at Upper Story.
Upper Story’s team has hosted every event imaginable, from intimate client dinners to elaborate celebrations and successful fundraisers. With our help in planning in every detail, impress your clients and your friends in our contemporary event space with its stunning design and our talented and gracious staff. Offering customizable solutions and packages for audiovisual and décor, your next corporate event will be a productive success.
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Our team at Upper Story by Charlie Palmer loves bringing what we learn on the job to you: our favorite new discoveries, interpretations of classics, and beautiful showcase events.
To learn more or to reserve your event with us, please call our Catering Sales Manager, Gwen Shusterman on 212.644.9394 or fill out the inquiry form below and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
CHARLIE PALMER GROUP PRIVACY POLICY
Effective: 6/26/18
EATWELL ENTERPRISES LLC, D/B/A CHARLIE PALMER GROUP takes your privacy very seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy and familiarize yourself with our privacy practices regarding your personal information and how we will use it. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information that we collect from you when you visit this website, register for information or content we make available on this website, and through your electronic communications with us.
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Please review it often. We will post changes to this Privacy Policy on this webpage. Changes will become effective immediately upon posting to this webpage, but will not apply retroactively. We may notify you of changes or updates to this Privacy Policy, or to request your consent for such changes, through additional means (for example, by posting a notice on the front of our website or sending you an email message) under certain circumstances.
This is an important policy - please read it carefully.
Personal information we collect
We may collect your personal information when you visit this website. You may be asked to provide personal information such as your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number. If you apply for a job through our online career center portal, we will collect your contact information, as well as job history and any other personal information you include in your resume and application package. We may ask for additional personal information for certain tasks or services. When we do so, we will tell you why we are collecting that personal information and how we will use it.
We also automatically collect certain information through automated means when you visit this website. Some information that we automatically collect, whether alone or combined with other information, could be personal information. We may automatically collect the following information from you when you visit this website:
• Information about your device;
• Information about your device's operating system;
• Information about your browser;
• Information about how you use the website;
• IP address;
• Mobile or Internet carrier;
• Browser type; and
• Referring URL.
Uses and disclosure of personal information
Your personal information may be used or disclosed in the following ways:
• For the specific purpose for which your personal information was collected;
• To enable us to process, validate, and verify your subscription;
• To provide our products and services;
• To alert you to new projects, website features, special events, and services;
• To conduct surveys or questionnaires about this website and our products and services;
• To enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
• To protect our rights or property or our safety, our members, or others;
• To comply with any court order, legal process, or respond to any governmental or regulatory request;
• To transfer information in the event of a merger, transfer of assets, or other organizational restructuring;
• To monitor and evaluate the website and identify where we should make changes or expand services;
• To provide advertisers with aggregate - never individual - information about our subscriber base and usage patterns;
• To give our marketing and development staff information that's useful for developing new features and services that meet subscriber needs;
• To share data with our affiliated companies for joint marketing and other purposes; and
• To share data with nonaffiliated third parties who provide products and services that may be of interest to you.
We use Open Table and Braintree as a compliant source for holding any credit card information from you on the website and we use Open Table to manage online reservations. We may also use other third-party service providers or other third-party organizations to perform tasks on our behalf and we may need to share your personal information with them to provide our products or services to you.
Managing your personal information
You can correct, update, or remove your personal information if it changes or if you no longer want to receive information from us. This can be done by emailing a request to us at marketing@charliepalmer.com You may also request deletion of your personal information by sending an e-mail to marketing@charliepalmer.com.
We may not be able to completely remove your personal information from our systems in all circumstances because of our data retention obligations. For example, we may retain your personal information for legitimate business purposes, if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, if required by law, or as retained in our data backup systems or cached or archived pages. All of your personal information that we retain will continue to be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy to which you have previously agreed and we will delete the retained personal information when the obligation for its retention has concluded. We may use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your personal information after you delete your account, but not in a manner that would identify you personally.
You have the right at any time to prevent us from contacting you for marketing purposes. You may edit registration information or cancel a subscription to any of our newsletters or marketing email lists at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each newsletter or promotional email that we send to you. We may continue to contact you regarding administrative issues, such as changes to your subscription (including renewals), changes to your subscription agreement, and changes to this Privacy Policy.
Cookie technology and advertising
We use cookie technology on this website to make this website work and to provide us information about how you use this website. When you use this website, we pass cookies to your computer. A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer by a website when you visit. Read our cookie disclosure statement and view a cookie-by-cookie breakdown.
Third party websites
This website may contain links to other websites provided by third parties. We do not control these third-party websites or any of the content contained on those websites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage you to exercise caution and to read the privacy policy for the website you visit. The inclusion of hyperlinks to third party websites on this website in no way constitutes an endorsement by us of such websites' content, actions, or policies.
Consumers in the European Union
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) gives certain rights to European data subjects in relation to their personal information.
We will only process your personal information when we have a legal basis to do so. When we do process your personal information, we will do so with your consent or because the processing is necessary: for the performance of a contract with you; to comply with our legal obligations; to pursue our legitimate interests; or to establish or defend a legal claim.
In some circumstances, data subjects in the European Union have certain rights regarding their personal information. These rights may include the right to: (i) request access to and rectification or erasure of their personal information; (ii) obtain restriction of processing or to object to processing of their personal information; and (iii) the right to data portability. If you are a European data subject and wish to exercise one of the above-mentioned rights, please send us your request via email to: marketing@charliepalmer.com. We may ask you to provide personal information about yourself so that we can verify your identity. We will respond to your request within 30 days from the date we receive the request. We may not be able to accommodate your request in every situation, and if that is the case, we will let you know why. We may charge you an administrative fee for subsequent requests.
Data subjects in the European Union may also have the right to file a complaint about the processing of their personal information with their local data protection authority.
Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, disputes, or issues regarding this Privacy Policy or how we process your personal information by contacting us at: marketing@charliepalmer.com.
We do not subject data subjects to decisions that have legal effects on them due solely to automated processing of personal data.
Consumers outside of the United States
This website is hosted in the United States and is governed by United States law. If you are visiting this website from outside the United States, please be aware that your personal information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country.
Security
We are committed to maintaining your confidence and trust and we take steps to help protect the personal information you provide to us. However, no transmission or electronic storage of information over the Internet is guaranteed to be secure. We therefore urge you to always use caution when transmitting personal information over the Internet.
Children
This website is not directed toward children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 18. If you are under 18, please do not use this website or submit any personally identifiable information to us. Please email us at marketing@charliepalmer.com if you believe we have collected personal information from a child.
Your California privacy rights
California's "Shine The Light" law (California Civil Code Section 1798.83) permits California residents to annually request and obtain information free of charge about what personal information is disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please contact us at marketing@charliepalmer.com.
Some web browsers may transmit "Do Not Track" signals to websites visited by the user. Our information collection and disclosure practices will continue to apply as described in this Privacy Policy, regardless of any "Do Not Track" signals that are sent by certain browsers.
Contact us
If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please send us an email at marketing@charliepalmer.com.