Where to rent party and hosting gear in Manhattan

Hosting in a Manhattan apartment usually means you're short on something for one night. You have six chairs and fourteen guests, a laptop speaker that won't fill the room, or a blank wall you'd like to turn into a movie screen. You need the thing for an evening and you have nowhere to keep it afterward.

We looked for businesses that rent party and hosting gear in Manhattan as part of our neighborhood research in March 2026, and found five. Only one has a street address. The other four are delivery or service-based: they bring the gear to you, and some run it for you. Inventory and prices change, so confirm everything with the business before you plan around it.

The five businesses at a glance

"Call for rates" means the business doesn't publish a price online. Porcci NYC is the only one of the five that lists one.

Tables, glassware and linens

If the problem is surfaces and something to drink from, start with New York Party Rentals LLC and CONCEPT Party Rentals. New York Party Rentals rents cocktail tables, glassware and general event supplies, and it serves the Lower East Side. CONCEPT Party Rentals works citywide and rents event furniture, catering supplies and table linens.

Neither has a shop you can walk into, so the delivery is part of the job. When you call, ask for the delivery window, whether they carry items up to your floor, and when they come back for pickup. A Saturday party with a Monday pickup means living with stacked tables for a day and a half, which matters in a studio. Ask whether glassware needs to go back rinsed or as is, and count what you need before you call: a quote for 24 glasses and 3 cocktail tables is faster to get than a vague one.

Sound, karaoke and DJ gear

Porcci NYC is the one business in this list built around audio. It rents karaoke machines with a library of 50,000+ songs, DJ equipment and sound systems, and it rents photo booths too. According to our research, its packages start at $640.

That price makes sense for a milestone birthday or a party where the karaoke is the main event. It's a lot for background music at a dinner for ten. For that, a good portable speaker is enough, and plenty of people in your building own one they'd lend or rent out for a night.

Photo booths and decor

Central Party Rentals of NYC, at 26 Bowery near the bottom of the Lower East Side, rents photo booths, balloons and event decor along with general party equipment. It's the only business in our list with a street address, but call before you go: an address doesn't mean you can pick things up over the counter.

Porcci NYC also rents photo booths, so if you're already booking sound from them, ask whether they can bundle the two.

Laptops, screens and livestreaming

House of Jax rents event technology: computers, laptops, tablets and livestreaming equipment. That's useful if you want relatives who can't make it to watch the toasts, or if a work party needs a laptop running a slideshow all night.

None of the five businesses list a projector in what we collected. If a movie night is the plan, ask when you call, and look closer to home as well. Our guide to camera and video gear rental in Lower Manhattan covers the rental houses downtown, and it makes the same point: projectors and small screens are exactly the kind of gear that's easier to find in a neighbor's closet than at a rental counter.

What these services are built for

Party rental businesses work at event scale. Delivery, setup and pickup make sense when you're seating fifty people for a wedding shower or filling a rented loft. Most apartment parties are smaller than that. You might need eight folding chairs, a second card table, a speaker and an extension cord. Paying for a delivery truck to bring eight chairs to a fourth-floor walk-up is hard to justify.

That kind of gear already sits in Manhattan apartments, used a few times a year. Someone down the hall has folding chairs in the back of a closet. Someone else bought a projector for one movie night and hasn't touched it since. The same logic applies to drills and ladders, which we cover in where to borrow or rent tools in the Lower East Side. If you live in Stuy Town or Peter Cooper Village, our guide to borrowing and renting in Stuyvesant Town is the closest starting point, and all our guides are listed in one place.

Renting from a neighbor with Leen

Leen is an app for renting things from people nearby, by the hour, day, week or month. It hasn't launched yet. It's launching in Lower Manhattan, starting in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, and you can join the waitlist to hear when it opens.

Here's how a rental works. You browse by category or search, and filter by distance. You pick your dates and see the total, including NYC sales tax, before you send a request. Your card is charged through Stripe only when the lender accepts. You arrange the handoff in the rental's chat, and either of you can add condition photos at pickup and return. Lenders can keep a listing visible only to a community, such as their own building, which suits hosting gear that's easy to carry down a hallway.

If you're the one with the folding chairs or the projector, you can list them and earn something from the nights they'd sit unused. Our guide to renting out what you own covers pricing and handoffs, and the FAQ answers the common questions. Listing is free. Leen hasn't published its fees yet, and we'll tell the waitlist before any fee applies.

Before you book for a party

• Book early for weekends and December. Party rental services are busiest when everyone else is hosting too.
• Ask for the delivery and pickup windows in writing, and whether someone needs to be home for both.
• Check your building's rules for deliveries, the freight elevator and weekend move-ins before you schedule a drop-off.
• Get an itemized quote so you can see what each table, chair or package costs.
• Count everything when it arrives, and take photos, whether it came from a business or a neighbor.
• Agree on what happens if something breaks or a glass goes missing before the party starts.