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311 W. 34th St. New York, NY 10001

212-279-7740

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Best General-Admission Venue for Geezers
Award Winner 2005

Features: ATM, Coat Check
Entertainment: Live Entertainment

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This 12,000 square foot concert was originally built by Oscar Hammerstein in 1906 as an opera house. It's since been a vaudeville hall, a Freemasons' Temple, and, in its current incarnation, a marquee-name pop music venue. Acts as diverse as Weezer and Underworld have performed here but, with a capacity of 3,000, it can often be difficult to see the stage from the standing-room, unslanted first floor. Regardless, Hammerstein has opera house-quality acoustics, so every seat sounds like the best in house.

2005 | Best General-Admission Venue for Geezers

Remember when you were young and stood for hours in a small, stinky GA club to see New Order Felt pretty darn good about yourself didn't ya HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM allowed fans to happily re- create this experience--and similar experiences for Devo, Kraftwerk, and Nine Inch Nails--without having to work for it. The venue boasts two levels of balcony seats and a considerably docile standing-room-only section downstairs. More »
2001 | Best Bathroom in a Music Venue

The ladies' room at HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM is bigger than most apartments. There's rarely an unbearable line. It's always clean. But the clincher is the wonderful lounge-like entryway. There's plenty of wall space to sit and lean against, whether you're just tired or too drunk to stand. Plus, it's a great place to meet guys. More »

Daughtry

By Mikael Wood | Wed, April 11, 2012

As its title seems to suggest, last year’s Break the Spell didn’t quite rise to the pop-metal standard set by Daughtry’s first two albums. (Dude’s best when giving into his wimpy-glammy side à la “Home,” truly a power ballad for the ages.) Never t... More »
WHO’S THE BAWSE?

By Nick Murray | Wed, March 07, 2012

Even though Rick Ross’s Teflon Don (2010) had tracks produced by Kanye West and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, its two most important songs came from the desktop of Lex Luger, the barely known 19-year-old whose biggest previous hit had been Waka Flocka Fl... More »
Flogging Molly

By SARAH MADGES | Wed, February 15, 2012

Seven-piece Celtic punk band Flogging Molly take their roots in booze, Irish history, poverty, politics, death, love, and the Roman Catholic Church and manage to make it not just hooky, but fun. With Dave Kind’s flat accent, and instruments rangin... More »
Matt & Kim

By Johnny Loftus | Wed, December 21, 2011

Matt & Kim, the Voice's New Year's Eve Guide cover stars, didn't reveal their resolutions in the following interview. But if they were to announce from the stage at Hammerstein that their relentless positivity had been pharmacologically rendered a... More »
Thirty Seconds to Mars

By SARAH MADGES | Wed, November 16, 2011

If you're playing word association games, “Thirty Seconds to Mars” might be the first thing you blurt out when you hear your partner mention any of post-grunge, emo, prog rock, or the ever-nebulous alternative rock genre. While in recent years th... More »
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Hammerstein Ballroom

311 W. 34th St. New York, NY 10001

212-279-7740

Description

Massimo Ranieri

8:00 p.m. June 2

2005 | Best General-Admission Venue for Geezers

2001 | Best Bathroom in a Music Venue

Daughtry

By Mikael Wood | Wed, April 11, 2012

WHO’S THE BAWSE?

By Nick Murray | Wed, March 07, 2012

Flogging Molly

By SARAH MADGES | Wed, February 15, 2012

Matt & Kim

By Johnny Loftus | Wed, December 21, 2011

Thirty Seconds to Mars

By SARAH MADGES | Wed, November 16, 2011