Places that Matter
Place Explorer: Performance
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Place Name | Neighborhood | Borough | |
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1520 Sedgwick Ave. | Morris Heights | Bronx | Hip hop pioneer Kool DJ Herc held his first parties here |
234 West 56th Street | Midtown | Manhattan | Early home of recorded music powerhouse Atlantic Records. |
A Gathering of the Tribes | East Village | Manhattan | Iconic East Village gallery and performance space |
ABC No Rio | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Center for volunteerism, art & activism |
Alhambra Supper Club (site of) | Hunts Point | Bronx | Latin dance and music club of the 50's and 60's |
Alhambra Theatre and Ballroom (former) | Central Harlem | Manhattan | The last standing of Harlem's historic dance halls |
Almanac House | Greenwich Village | Manhattan | Residence of folk revival musicians, the Almanac Singers |
Amato Opera Theater (former) | East Village | Manhattan | The "world's smallest opera house" |
American Banknote Building | Hunts Point | Bronx | Former currency minting company, now home to an arts and dance center |
Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Art, concert & performance space in a historic synagogue building |
Apollo Theater | Harlem | Manhattan | Legendary music and performance venue |
Audubon Ballroom (former) | Washington Heights | Manhattan | Former theater and dance hall, site of Malcolm X's assassination (now Mary Woodward Lasker Biomedical Research Building) |
BAMcafe | Fort Greene | Brooklyn | Upstairs eatery at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that offers performances and a place to gather |
Barbes | Park Slope | Brooklyn | Neighborhood bar and performance space |
Barron's Exclusive Club (former) | Central Harlem | Manhattan | A popular 1920's Harlem jazz club, also known as Barron's Cabaret |
Battery Park | Financial District | Manhattan | Home to monuments, performance events and ferry docks |
Beekman Theatre (former) | Upper East Side | Manhattan | Lovely single-screen movie theater |
Beth Ahavath Sholom, a.k.a. The Temple (site of) | Bath Beach | Brooklyn | Former synagogue that hosted punk rock concerts in its basement |
Billie Holiday Theatre | Bedford-Stuyvesant | Brooklyn | 200-seat theater in Bedford-Stuyvesant offering an alternative to Broadway |
Birdland | Midtown | Manhattan | One of the foremost venues for bebop in the 1950s |
Blue Note | Greenwich Village | Manhattan | An important jazz venue in Greenwich Village |
Bottom Line, The (former) | Greenwich Village | Manhattan | A rock and folk music club |
Bronx River Houses | Bronx River | Bronx | Housing project important in hip hop history |
Brooklyn Lyceum (formerly Public Bath #7) | Park Slope | Brooklyn | Once a public bathhouse, now a center for dance, music and theater that includes a gym and a cafe |
Brooklyn Paramount Theater (former) | Downtown | Brooklyn | Hosted early rock 'n' roll concerts and still houses its original Wurlitzer organ |
Brooklyn Steel Pan Yards | East Flatbush | Brooklyn | East Flatbush home to Crossfire Steel Pan band |
Caffe Cino (former) | Greenwich Village | Manhattan | Where Off-Off Broadway theater got its start |
Caravana Club/Bronx Casino/El Cerromar (former) | Mott Haven | Bronx | Nightclubs that produced distinctively New York Latin music |
Carnegie Hall | Midtown | Manhattan | One of the premier concert venues in the world |
Casino Puerto Rico/Teatro Casino (former) | Mott Haven | Bronx | Popular dance and Latin music venue, and a movie and vaudeville theater |
Casita Rincón Criollo | Melrose | Bronx | The oldest and largest casita in New York |
CBGB (former) | East Village | Manhattan | The birthplace of punk rock |
Central Park | Central Park | Manhattan | Perhaps New York's most famous oasis |
Chinatown Senior Citizens' Center | Chinatown | Manhattan | A place for Chinatown seniors to participate together in traditional culture |
City Center | Midtown | Manhattan | A popular performing arts center |
Club Tropicoro (site of) | Longwood | Bronx | Latin music nightclub that also hosted political events |
Colgate Gardens (former) | Soundview | Bronx | Latin music venue where the Mambo was popular |
Dixon Place | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Performance space for original and experimental works |
Eagle Theater | Jackson Heights | Queens | Shows first-run movies from India and Pakistan |
Fillmore East | East Village | Manhattan | Major rock 'n' roll venue from 1968 to1972 |
Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center | Fort Greene | Brooklyn | Supports local seniors with services and activities, like the weekly Jazz 966 concert series |
Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts | East Harlem | Manhattan | Preserves and promotes New York's Latin music heritage with music lessons, dance classes and acting classes |
Harlem Meer | East Harlem | Manhattan | Lake in the northeastern tip of Central Park |
Historic Tin Pan Alley | Midtown South | Manhattan | Home to the American popular music industry around 1900 |
Hunts Point Palace | Hunts Point | Bronx | A dance club for nearly a century, important for performers from mambo king Tito Puente to the first hip-hop crews in the '70s and '80s |
Indigo Cafe and Books (former) | Fort Greene | Brooklyn | Black-owned bookstore, cafe and community space, now online |
International Longshoremen Assoc. Union Hall, Local 791 (former) | Chelsea | Manhattan | Headquarters of seamen's labor union, later home of the Sanford Meisner Theater |
Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater (former) | East Village | Manhattan | Off-Broadway company that performed classic works of drama |
Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center | East Harlem | Manhattan | Studios and performing space for Latino artists |
Koster & Bial's "The Corner" (former) | Flatiron | Manhattan | Site of theaters and burlesque halls closed by anti-vice police |