Best Concert Venues in NYC (2024)

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  • #1. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts EDITORS CHOICE

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    Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

    The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is the world's largest cultural complex. The 12 world-renowned independent resident companies that make up the Lincoln Center represent the very best in the performing arts today.Their world famous festival, "Lincoln Center Present...

    30 Lincoln Center Plz (63rd Street at Columbus Avenue) View Tickets Now
  • #2. Barclays Center

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    Barclays Center

    Developed by Brooklyn-based real estate developer Forest City Ratner Companies and designed by the award-winning architectural firms AECOMM and SHoP Architects, Barclays Center serves as the new home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets and boasts one of the most intimate seating configura...

    620 Atlantic Avenue View Tickets Now
  • #3

    Kings Theatre

    Built in 1929, the Loew’s Kings Theatre was then one of the most exquisite theatres in the nation. Originally designed by architectural masters Rapp & Rapp with interior design by Harold W. Rambusch, the theatre was truly an ornate spectacle for the masses. As one of the fi...

    1027 Flatbush Avenue (Between Tilden Avenue and Duryea Place) View Tickets Now
  • #4. Carnegie Hall

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    Carnegie Hall

    This world famous concert venue is a New York City landmark and must-see music attraction. Carnegie Hall presents classical, jazz, folk, world, and popular music with breakthrough and veteran performers. Since opening in 1891, this concert hall has become the emblem of musical ac...

    881 Seventh Avenue (at 57th Street) View Tickets Now
  • #5. Madison Square Garden

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    Madison Square Garden

    New York's premier sports arena located atop Penn Station dates back to the late 19th century and has gone through several makeovers since then. Home to the New York Knicks, the New York Liberty and the New York Rangers sports teams, the Garden also serves as a destination venu f...

    2 Penn Plaza View Tickets Now
  • #6. Radio City Music Hall

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    Radio City Music Hall

    Radio City, like New York, is a place of superlatives, built on grand scale. Since 1932, over 300,000,000 people have attended its innumerable events, concerts and shows, the most famous of which surely must be the annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring the world-famou...

    1260 Avenue Of The Americas View Tickets Now
  • #7. Beacon Theatre

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    Beacon Theatre

    The legendary Beacon Theatre is a 2,600-seat venue built in 1929 and designed in the art deco style by architect Walter Ahlschlager. Designated a New York landmark building by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Committee in 1979 and acquired by MSGE in 2006, the Beacon has become a v...

    2124 Broadway View Tickets Now
  • #8. The Town Hall

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    The Town Hall

    Town Hall is a 1,500-seat, 501C3 non-profit national historic landmark venue in the heart of New York City. Town Hall was founded by a vibrant group of suffragists (The League for Political Education) whose fight for the 19th Amendment led them to build a meeting space to educate...

    123 West 43rd Street View Tickets Now
  • #9. Palladium Times Square

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    Palladium Times Square

    The Palladium Times Square, (formerly Playstation Theatre) is located in the former Astor Plaza Cinema. Designed by David Rockwell, the theater is one of the most advanced on Broadway. Designed to be user-friendly and give both the fans and artists an overall superior event and c...

    1515 Broadway (Northwest corner of 44th and Broadway) View Tickets Now
  • #10. Bowery Ballroom

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    Bowery Ballroom

    The Bowery Ballroom has been open since 1998 and has emerged as one of the top midsize venues in the city. The sound is excellent and the architecture is classy. A former vaudeville hall, the space retains much of its original Beaux Arts construction such as the brass rails, the ...

    6 Delancey St (bet. Bowery Chyrstie Streets) View Tickets Now
  • #11. Terminal 5

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    Terminal 5

    From the big brains behind the Bowery venues and Mercury Lounge this cavernous space in far-west Midtown features some of live music's greatest acts, from Iggy and the Stooges to the Dandy Warhols, and many emerging bands who have gained followings.No doubt Terminal 5 is a great...

    610 W 56th St (11th Avenue) View Tickets Now
  • #12. Music Hall of Williamsburg

    #12

    Music Hall of Williamsburg

    Now officially a part of the "Bowery Presents" collection of live music venues, the Music Hall Of Williamsburg is the best place to see bands and artists of every caliber in Brooklyn.

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  • #13. The Bell House

    #13

    The Bell House

    The sibling of local favorites Union Hall and Floyd, the Bell House is an event space that just happens to have a bar, instead of the other way around. Two rooms were carved out of a nearly century-old warehouse in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood to offer a huge space for live mu...

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