PlaceFood & drink
The Bar Room at The Beekman
Cocktails and a table beneath The Beekman’s soaring atrium, a downtown address where looking up is part of the evening.
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A rooftop in Bushwick. A dance floor in Queens. Follow the line-up across the river and leave the finish open.
A rooftop in Bushwick. A dance floor in Queens. Follow the line-up across the river and leave the finish open. Choose a dated event on the venue’s official programme. Admission and opening times vary.
PlaceFood & drink
The Django
A jazz cellar beneath the Roxy Hotel, with brick arches, a supper menu and a reason to build the evening around a set.
PlaceFood & drink
Bemelmans Bar
Murals, a piano and an Upper East Side room that rewards staying put. The Carlyle’s bar makes an occasion out of one good stop.
PlaceConcerts
Le Bain
A Meatpacking District finale above The Standard, where the skyline gives way to the night’s DJ programme.
PlaceConcerts
Village Vanguard
A West Village basement where the band is the evening’s main event. Choose the set before planning the rest of the night.
PlaceConcerts
Birdland Jazz Club
A Midtown jazz destination with a programme that gives a theatre-district evening a different musical direction.
PlaceConcerts
Smalls Jazz Club
An intimate Greenwich Village room for live jazz, close enough to other music venues to make the neighbourhood the whole plan.
PlaceConcerts
Blue Note New York
A Greenwich Village listening destination for an evening built around the musicians on the bill.
PlaceConcerts
The Iridium
Live music near Broadway, with the individual performance setting the tone of the night.
PlaceConcerts
The Bitter End
A small-room Greenwich Village music venue with a long history of performers passing through its doors.
PlaceConcerts
Bowery Ballroom
A Lower East Side live-music venue where the room and the bill give the evening its shape.
PlaceConcerts
Mercury Lounge
A compact live-music stop on East Houston Street, suited to a night focused on discovering a band.
PlaceConcerts
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Performance, film and music make BAM a cultural anchor in Fort Greene, with several venues and programmes to choose from.
PlaceConcerts
New York City Center
Dance and stage performance in Midtown, inside a building whose facade already signals a different kind of evening.
PlaceConcerts
Beacon Theatre
A landmark Upper West Side theatre for concerts and performance, with the show worth choosing before the restaurant.
PlaceConcerts
Radio City Music Hall
Art Deco interiors and a large-scale stage make a Rockefeller Center performance feel like an occasion.
PlaceConcerts
Apollo Theater
A Harlem landmark with deep musical history, where the current programme remains the reason to plan a visit.
PlaceConcerts
New Victory Theater
A Times Square stage focused on younger audiences, with the age guidance of each production worth checking.
PlaceConcerts
Vivian Beaumont Theater
A Lincoln Center theatre evening, with a distinctive stage setting and the wider cultural campus outside.
PlaceConcerts
Belasco Theatre
A historic Broadway theatre whose interiors add another layer to the production you have come to see.
PlaceConcerts
Gershwin Theatre
A large Broadway venue in Midtown, where choosing the production and seats comes before planning the evening around it.
PlaceConcerts
New Amsterdam Theatre
A historic Times Square theatre with ornate interiors and a major Broadway stage.
PlaceConcerts
Shubert Theatre
A Broadway landmark on West 44th Street, at the heart of a neighbourhood built around curtain times.
PlaceConcerts
Palace Theatre
A Times Square stage with a long entertainment history, now part of the city’s contemporary Broadway circuit.