Music city

New York City live music and nightlife

New York City live music and nightlife: start with Birdland Jazz Club, Blue Note Jazz Club, and Brooklyn Bridge. Use the 210 places below to build a plan around this theme; each place has source-backed details behind its description.

210 places

Places to start with

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Harrison Street Row Houses

A stunning collection of nine Federal-style red-brick townhouses in TriBeCa, featuring historic architecture by John McComb Jr. a…

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Herman Behr Mansion

A stunning Romanesque Revival masterpiece in Brooklyn Heights, this 1888 mansion was designed by Frank Freeman for industrialist…

Hotel Bossert

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Hotel Bossert

Once known as the 'Waldorf-Astoria of Brooklyn,' this 14-story Italian Renaissance Revival landmark at 98 Montague Street is a st…

IATI Theater

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IATI Theater

Founded in 1968, IATI Theater is a vanguard of Latinx performing arts in the East Village, specializing in bold, experimental, an…

Isaacs-Hendricks House

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Isaacs-Hendricks House

The oldest extant home in Greenwich Village, this 1799 Federal-style farmhouse once belonged to wealthy merchants and survived ur…

Little Singer Building

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Little Singer Building

A Beaux-Arts architectural masterpiece in SoHo, this 12-story L-shaped building features intricate terracotta panels and wrought-…

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Mount Morris Fire Watchtower

The sole surviving cast-iron fire lookout of 19th-century New York, this historic landmark stands as a striking architectural ico…

Performance Space New York

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Performance Space New York

A legendary East Village venue founded in 1980, Performance Space New York serves as a radical hub for off-Broadway work, queer v…

Pomander Walk

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Pomander Walk

A hidden, gated community of 27 Tudor-style cottages on the Upper West Side, evoking an English village atmosphere in the heart o…

Riverside Drive Viaduct

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Riverside Drive Viaduct

A historic engineering feat in Manhattan, this viaduct carries Riverside Drive over the city's rugged terrain, featuring a 26-spa…

The Belnord

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The Belnord

A palatial Italian Renaissance Revival landmark on the Upper West Side, The Belnord is a full-block condominium building famous f…

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The Dorilton

A masterpiece of French Beaux-Arts architecture, The Dorilton is a luxury residential landmark on the Upper West Side, celebrated…

The Ottendorfer Branch Library

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The Ottendorfer Branch Library

The oldest NYPL branch in its original building, this late Victorian landmark at 135 Second Avenue is a hidden gem of East Villag…

The Otto H. Kahn House

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The Otto H. Kahn House

A Gilded Age masterpiece at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 91st Street, this four-story neo-Italian Renaissance mansion was once…

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The Payne Whitney House

A Gilded Age masterpiece by Stanford White, this five-story mansion at 972 Fifth Avenue now serves as the French Embassy's cultur…

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Theatre 80 St. Marks

A historic Off-Broadway venue at 80 St. Mark's Place, this 180-year-old building evolved from a Prohibition-era speakeasy into a…

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Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School

A High Victorian Gothic landmark in the East Village, this former 1887 sanctuary for destitute newsboys and bootblacks is the old…

Williamsburg Art & Historical Center

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Williamsburg Art & Historical Center

Housed in a landmark 1867 bank building, this nonprofit cultural hub showcases multicultural art exhibitions, theatrical producti…

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