Hammerstein Ballroom, Music venue in Manhattan Center, United States
The Hammerstein Ballroom is a venue inside Manhattan Center in New York City that hosts concerts, theater productions, and sporting events. The space covers roughly 1,100 square meters (12,000 square feet) with a flat floor, two main balconies positioned close to ground level, and a ceiling rising about 23 meters (75 feet) high.
A theater entrepreneur built the original opera house on this site in 1906, which hosted performances until the Metropolitan Opera took over operations. The space was later converted into a multipurpose hall that now draws audiences from different entertainment sectors.
The hall takes its name from a turn-of-the-century theater impresario whose family helped shape American musical theater. Today concert audiences fill the space beneath the restored ceiling painting, while wrestling fans use the same galleries during live broadcasts.
The hall holds around 2,500 people and offers low-set balconies that provide good sightlines to the stage. Integrated sound studios and video control rooms allow recording and broadcasting during events.
The hand-painted ceiling from the opera era was carefully restored in the late 1990s and gives the room its original theatrical feel despite modern equipment. Today it forms a contrast with the spotlights and speaker systems of current events.
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