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About
Skylight Group is New York Cities largest event venue management firm founded by Jennifer Blumin in 2004. Skylight Group acts as a production partner and resource working directly with clients. Their portfolio includes Skylight West, Skylight at the McKittrick Hotel, Skylight One Hanson in Brooklyn, Skylight at Moynihan Station, and a partnership with The High Line & “Friends of the Highline”. Skylight Group uses its existing infrastructure and client base to create venue management solutions for events, photo and film shoots.

Skylight At Moynihan Station
Skylight at Moynihan Station is located at the historic James A. Farley post office. The 1.4m sqf space, in partnership with the Port Authority is currently under renovation for restoration. The formal Postal Dock where trucks historically delivered 90% of the countries mail, and the Mail Sorting Room were used for runway shows during New York Fashion Week in Sept 2012.

Skylight West
The Skylight West location has 7,500 square feet of rooftop space with city views of the Manhattan skyline. It is close to Chelsea, The Javits Center, and The High Line.

Skylight One Hanson
One of the newer locations, Skylight One Hanson is located in the historic Williamsburgh Savings Bank, one of New York’s oldest landmarks. The building features 63 foot ceilings and mosaic murals, which were recently restored. It was once the tallest building in the borough.

Skylight at the McKittrick Hotel
Skylight at the Mickittrick Hotel is a partnership with Skylight Group and Emursive, producers of experiential theatre project Sleep No More, which according to the description on its official website, is host to a hotel which was completed in 1939 and “intended to be New York City's finest and most decadent luxury hotel.” The site goes on to explain that “six weeks before opening, and two days after the outbreak of World War II, the legendary hotel was condemned and left locked, permanently sealed from the public” until it was restored and reinvented by Punchdrunk and Emursive.

Consultancy
The Skylight Group provides consultancy services to a variety of clients looking to install long or short-term event businesses in their properties.

Clients
Skylight has worked with Vogue, CFDA, Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, Diesel, Target, MTV, BMW, Digitas, Google, Microsoft and The Guggenheim, among others.

Partnerships
The Skylight Group has partnered with Splashlight Studios, a producer of commercial photography in New York to create Splashlight @ Skylight, the largest photography studio in the city. This venture has become the favored New York studio for photographers and for clients such as Vogue, Christian Dior, Harper’s Bazaar and the Louis Vuitton campaign featuring Madonna. Splashlight @ Skylight Soho is the NYC studio home of photographer Steven Meisel.