Edith Macy Conference Center

I had a great time at the event there and the food was delicious and ample. You will get FULL! Overnight accommodations are not great but great for functions and conferences.

I had a wonderful experience at Edith Macy during my two night stay for a conference. My room was quite a walk from the main conference area, but it was also quiet. There are plenty of common areas to meet with others, and the auditorium is large enough to accommodate well over 100 people.
The food is delicious and seems to be available nonstop! The three meals a day have tons of choices to fit numerous diets, including vegetarian and gluten free. They also put out snacks throughout the day so you are never hungry!
The staff were all pleasant and helpful. The grounds are beautiful and peaceful. I would definitely recommend Edith Macy!

Every once in a while we get a lot of family over and crowding up the house. On these occasions I have found myself staying at the Edith Macy Conference center in Chappaqua. It sure has a weird location in the middle of the woods but it sure worked for me nicely seeing it was close to home. The place is used for conference, retreats and training. According to the Information on the front desk, the place is apparently owned by the Girls Scouts of America and is used heavily for training their supervisors/​staff. The place has a eco-​friedly type of theme (prolly due to the Girl scout influence) and it’s shown by their lack of escalators, low rise toilets and recycled paper. A lot of people whine about having to walk everywhere when the shuttles are not available but I’m an active guy and enjoy the exercise. The rooms are nice and remind of log cabins (which I personally love) and the bathrooms were handicapped friendly and cleaned. Reminds of my own Scouting days.
The food is great and fancy. Whenever there are groups meeting there they seem to have varied menus and the chefs seem to know what they are doing. The Restaurant supervisor was EXTREMELY hospitable and courteous as was the bartender. One time I was there I crashed on the parties some of the conferences were having and had a swell time. The place is very good and convenient for me. Look forward to my next visit

The bottom line with this place: the food here was really good, the rooms were clean, and the facilities were well-​maintained. I went here for a departmental retreat and was definitely impressed. I can’t speak as to the price since the department took care of organizing and financing the adventure, but I can’t imagine that it was so so expensive since everybody’s operating within a tight budget these days.
This is a pretty cool little conference center located in Westchester and sort of off the beaten path and located in the woods. The housing units are built along the slope of a steep hill so be prepared for a climb as you move from the main conference center to the rooms. In the building where I stayed, each room had two beds and its own bathroom plus TV and walk-​in closet. It was really quite nice.
The main conference center has everything together in one small area: dining room, auditorium, and lounge area with a pool table, air hockey table, tv, wii, and a poker set /​various boardgames. They also have some exercise equipment but it’s just a weight set to do chest and back and a few ellipticals. No treadmills.
Our conference was only two days long so I didn’t get a sense of what it would be like to stay there long-​term, but for the one night I was there, it was good. I will say that the place wasn’t super huge so you’re not going to fit a zillion people in there if you want to have a huge conference. We had one full coach bus of people and we took up about ²⁄₃ of their auditorium.

Great place for smaller groups, they provide plenty of snacks and drinks throughout the day. They provide numerous options for dinner and lunch, as well as vegetarian options at each meal. There are great trails to go take a break in the woods, and the conference center is located on several hundred acres, so It is quite peaceful in the morning with plenty of space to roam.
There are numerous places to meet, with each of the guestroom buildings having a sitting area to meet informally, as well as meeting areas througout the campus. Meeting rooms are set up for indiviudal computer use, or just general classroom set-​up with varying class size.
And did I mention the food? They offer you so much you will not go hungry! Plus, the veggie options are readily available, it is not something you have to ask for and they go scrounging for some wilted lettuce as the «veggie» option. I had roasted vegetables and roasted tempeh that was quite delicious one evening, another evening they had a nice steak option with cognac pepper sauce. Much better than I expected!

The Edith Macy Center is owned by the Girls Scouts of America, As a conference center it is probably great. Gorgeous secluded location off in the woods. As a hotel, which is what I used it for, forget about it. Was going to stay Thanksgiving night after dinner at relatives. The «hotel» was about 4 miles from their house. After finding that the parking lot was about a ¼ mile walk from the room. And there was NO breakfast. And that it would be treacherous driving down the wooded access road late at night. We paid for the room, drove back to CT after dinner and never used it.
Hotels. com and others list this as a hotel. It isn’t. Its a conference center, and if you don’t have an event there, go find a real hotel.

My company came here for our fall retreat and enjoyed everything Edith Macy had to offer — spacious rooms, beautiful grounds, fresh baked cookies (though, alas, not of the Girl Scout variety).
Pluses
+ Nice guest rooms, not too fancy but classy and not cramped
+ COOKIES
+ The food overall. We ate about every 2 hours, and all of the food was delicious. I particularly liked the breakfast options, but the veggie options were certainly more impressive than at previous work retreats
+ Variety of meeting spaces — we got to sit inside, outside, in lounges, in meeting rooms, all over the place.
Minuses
— Guest rooms were awkward to get to, forcing you to walk inside and out to get between them and the common space
— No sunlight in some meeting rooms
— Constant water shortages — I know we had a big group. but by day 3, it should have been easier to keep the water coolers filled
— Weird Muzak. This is minor, but it was so consistently weird that we often stopped conversations to ask «What IS this?» and the answers varied from «Moon River on the organ» to «the Muppets theme»
Overall, a great place to have a retreat with a group of any size.