The Annex Spaces at Starrett-Lehigh offer a different approach to event venues in New York City. Rather than providing a predefined setting, these expansive raw environments give planners, producers, and creative teams the freedom to shape the space around the event itself. With large-format floorplates, industrial architecture, and highly adaptable layouts, the Annex is designed for experiences that require scale, flexibility, and creative control.
Located within one of Manhattan’s most iconic buildings, the Annex Spaces support a wide range of event formats—from experiential activations and fashion presentations to productions, exhibitions, conferences, and large corporate gatherings. For teams looking beyond traditional event venues, the Annex provides a blank canvas capable of accommodating ambitious concepts and complex builds.
Flexible Event Spaces Built for Big Ideas
Some events begin with a venue. Others begin with an idea that requires the right environment to bring it to life. The Annex Spaces were created for the latter. Their expansive floorplates provide room to build, stage, install, exhibit, produce, and transform without the constraints often found in conventional event venues.
The raw nature of the space is intentional. Rather than imposing a fixed identity, the Annex allows planners to create an environment that reflects the goals of the event. Layouts can be configured around audience flow, staging requirements, custom fabrication, hospitality elements, installations, or production needs. Whether designing an immersive experience or organizing a large-scale gathering, the space adapts to the vision rather than the other way around.
For event agencies, production companies, brands, cultural institutions, and corporate planners, that flexibility creates opportunities that are increasingly difficult to find in New York City. The result is a venue capable of supporting both creative experimentation and large-scale execution.
Built for Activations, Productions & Brand Experiences
Experiential marketing continues to evolve beyond traditional event formats, demanding environments that can support storytelling, interaction, and immersive engagement. The Annex Spaces provide the scale and adaptability needed to create those experiences, allowing brands to move beyond standard presentations and receptions into fully customized environments.
Product launches, branded activations, media events, and consumer experiences can all be designed around the objectives of the campaign. Installations, custom builds, content capture moments, hospitality elements, and audience engagement zones can exist within a single footprint, creating experiences that feel cohesive and highly intentional. The open nature of the space gives creative teams room to experiment while maintaining the operational flexibility needed for production and execution.
The Annex is equally well suited for large-scale productions. Film shoots, photo productions, content creation, scenic builds, and installation-driven projects benefit from the ability to accommodate equipment, crews, staging, and technical infrastructure without compromising the creative vision. For producers and agencies, the venue functions as both a workspace and a finished experience.
Fashion, Culture & Creative Programming
The industrial character and gallery-like scale of the Annex Spaces make them a natural fit for fashion presentations, exhibitions, art fairs, installations, and cultural events. The environment provides a distinctive backdrop while remaining flexible enough to adapt to a wide range of creative formats.
Fashion brands can configure the space for runway shows, showroom experiences, presentations, and industry gatherings that require open sightlines and adaptable layouts. Cultural organizations and creative producers can shape the venue around exhibitions, performances, installations, and public-facing events that benefit from a raw, open environment. Rather than competing with the work itself, the space allows creative concepts to define the experience.
This combination of flexibility and architectural character has made Starrett-Lehigh a destination for creative communities across New York City. For organizations seeking a venue that feels both expansive and culturally relevant, the Annex offers a setting that can evolve alongside the event itself.
Corporate Events, Conferences & Large Gatherings
While the Annex Spaces are often associated with creative programming, they are equally effective for large corporate events that require flexibility and scale. Conferences, leadership summits, company gatherings, product launches, and gala-style events can all be designed around the needs of the audience and the goals of the organization.
Unlike traditional ballrooms or conference centers, the Annex allows planners to create custom environments that support presentations, networking, dining, exhibitions, and branded experiences within a single venue. This flexibility gives organizations greater control over event flow, guest experience, and visual identity while maintaining the infrastructure needed for professional execution.
For companies seeking an event venue in Manhattan that offers more than a conventional meeting environment, the Annex provides a compelling alternative—one that combines production capability, customization, and architectural character within a single destination.
Located Within Starrett-Lehigh
The Annex Spaces are located within Starrett-Lehigh, one of New York City’s most recognizable industrial landmarks and a destination closely connected to the city’s creative, cultural, and business communities. Situated in West Chelsea near Hudson Yards, the building offers convenient access for attendees, vendors, production teams, and event partners traveling from across Manhattan and beyond.
The location places events at the center of one of New York’s most dynamic neighborhoods, surrounded by galleries, hospitality destinations, creative companies, and cultural institutions. Beyond accessibility, Starrett-Lehigh brings a sense of identity and credibility that contributes to the overall experience, making it a destination as much as a venue.
Explore the Annex Spaces At Level Ten
The Annex Spaces were designed for events that require room to think bigger. Whether planning an experiential activation, fashion event, exhibition, production, conference, or large-scale gathering, the venue provides the flexibility to transform ambitious ideas into fully realized experiences.
Connect with the team to explore layouts, discuss production requirements, schedule a walkthrough, and discover how the Annex Spaces can support your next event in New York City.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Annex Spaces are expansive raw event environments located within the Starrett-Lehigh building in West Chelsea. Designed as flexible blank-canvas venues, they support large-scale events, productions, activations, exhibitions, and custom-built experiences that require significant footprint and creative freedom.
The Annex Spaces can accommodate a wide range of event formats, including experiential activations, product launches, fashion shows, conferences, galas, exhibitions, art fairs, corporate gatherings, photo shoots, film productions, and large-scale creative installations. Their adaptable nature allows the space to be configured around the specific needs of each event.
Yes. The open floorplates, industrial architecture, and flexible layouts make the Annex Spaces particularly well suited for runway presentations, showroom experiences, collection launches, fashion week events, and industry gatherings. The venue can be customized to support both traditional and non-traditional fashion formats.
Absolutely. The Annex Spaces are designed to support production-heavy projects, including filming, photography, content creation, scenic builds, installations, and custom fabrication. Their scale provides room for crews, equipment, staging, and technical infrastructure while maintaining flexibility throughout the production process.
Yes. The gallery-like character of the spaces makes them a natural setting for exhibitions, art fairs, installations, performances, and cultural programming. Organizers can configure layouts around artwork, visitor circulation, programming, and immersive experiences while maintaining a strong visual connection to the surrounding architecture.
The Annex Spaces extend the Level Ten experience by providing larger, raw event environments designed for events that require greater scale, production flexibility, or custom builds. While spaces such as the Rooftop, Conference Wing, Lounge & Reception, Studios, and The Yacht Club are designed for hospitality-driven events, meetings, content production, and gatherings, the Annex Spaces offer expansive floorplates that can accommodate immersive activations, fashion events, exhibitions, large-scale productions, and custom installations. Together, they allow planners to choose the environment that best matches the goals and scope of their event.
Yes. Customization is one of the defining characteristics of the Annex Spaces. Brands, agencies, and production teams can transform the environment through staging, installations, fabrication, lighting, scenic design, branded elements, and multi-zone layouts to create immersive experiences tailored to their audience and objectives.