The biggest music venues in New York
50 venuesRanked by capacity, largest first. Capacities are researched room by room, not taken from the building.
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1. MetLife Stadium82,500 cap · 4 gigs2. Citi Field41,000 cap · 1 gig3. Madison Square Garden20,789 cap · 25 gigs4. Barclays Center19,000 cap · 39 gigs5. UBS Arena19,000 cap · 13 gigs6. Javits Convention Center18,000 cap7. PNC Bank Arts Center17,500 cap · 3 gigs8. Prudential Center17,000 cap · 22 gigs9. Nassau Coliseum16,000 cap · 1 gig10. Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum16,000 cap · 1 gig11. Northwell at Jones Beach Theater15,000 cap · 4 gigs12. Forest Hills Stadium13,000 cap · 2 gigs13. Randalls Island10,000 cap14. Radio City Music Hall5,960 cap · 13 gigs15. Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden5,600 cap · 4 gigs16. Brooklyn Storehouse at Brooklyn Navy Yard5,000 cap · 2 gigs17. Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage5,000 cap · 1 gig18. BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Lena Horne Bandshell5,000 cap19. Under the 'K' Bridge Park5,000 cap20. Knockdown Center4,400 cap · 13 gigs21. Westchester County Center4,400 cap22. The Rooftop at Pier 173,400 cap · 3 gigs23. United Palace3,350 cap · 4 gigs24. United Palace Theatre3,350 cap · 3 gigs25. Loew's Jersey Theatre3,021 cap · 6 gigs26. Terminal 53,000 cap · 25 gigs27. Kings Theatre3,000 cap · 16 gigs28. Dream Live at American Dream3,000 cap · 8 gigs29. Beacon Theatre2,894 cap · 16 gigs30. Flagstar at Westbury Music Fair2,870 cap · 24 gigs31. Prudential Hall at New Jersey PAC2,868 cap · 17 gigs32. New Jersey Performing Arts Center2,800 cap · 29 gigs33. Prudential Hall at New Jersey Performing Arts Center2,800 cap · 12 gigs34. Ritz Theatre & Performing Arts Center2,800 cap · 6 gigs35. Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall2,790 cap · 25 gigs36. Carnegie Hall2,790 cap · 12 gigs37. Ritz Theatre2,772 cap · 9 gigs38. Brooklyn Paramount2,500 cap · 68 gigs39. The Wellmont Theater2,500 cap · 18 gigs40. Lehman Center for the Performing Arts2,276 cap · 6 gigs41. Newark Symphony Hall2,262 cap · 1 gig42. Tilles Center Concert Hall2,250 cap · 12 gigs43. David Geffen Hall2,200 cap · 104 gigs44. Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom2,200 cap · 5 gigs45. Palladium Times Square2,150 cap · 18 gigs46. Colden Auditorium at Kupferberg Center for the Arts2,085 cap · 6 gigs47. The Capitol Theatre2,000 cap · 28 gigs48. Starland Ballroom2,000 cap · 24 gigs49. Pacha New York2,000 cap · 10 gigs50. St. George Theatre1,903 cap · 10 gigs