Irving Plaza - Wikipedia Irving Plaza For the historic demolished neighboring theater, see Irving Place Theatre. Coordinates : 40 ° 44 ′ 6 '' N 73 ° 59 ′ 18 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.73500 ° N 73.98833 ° W ﻿ / 40.73500 ; - 73.98833 Irving Plaza Entrance of venue ( c. 2011 ) Full name Irving Plaza, powered by Klipsch Former names Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza ( 2007 - 10 ) Address 17 Irving Pl New York City, NY 10003 - 2392 Location Union Square, Manhattan Owner Polish Army Veterans Association of America Operator Live Nation Capacity 1,025 Opened July 14, 1978 ( 1978 - 07 - 14 ) Website www.irvingplaza.com Irving Plaza ( known through sponsorship as Irving Plaza, powered by Klipsch and formerly known as the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza ) is a ballroom - style music venue located within the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was featured on the Complex City Guide list of `` 50 Best Concert Venues of America '' in 2013. Contents 1 Polish Army veterans 2 Rock venue 3 References 4 External links Polish Army Veterans In 1948 the building was purchased by the Polish Army Veterans of America District 2 and turned into a Polish - American community center. Generals and other distinguished Poles graced its stage including, in 1976, the future Pope John Paul II. Rock venue Thirty years later, in 1978, the hall was converted to a rock music venue by future Peppermint Lounge promoters Tom Goodkind and Frank Roccio, who after a year, began to share promotional efforts with a `` Club 57 '' crew headed by Jane Friedman and Louis Tropia. Goodkind and Roccio brought in acts such as the B - 52s, Talking Heads, the Ramones and, with Friedman and Tropia, a wealth of British bands, establishing the venue as a premier American location for punk and new wave. In October 1983 the venue was reopened by Chuck Terzella, with management by Frank Gallagher and the English DJ Andy Dunkley, presenting reggae and other ethnic music, plus college rock, proclaiming in their ads `` We do n't have video '' Terzella 's club filed for bankruptcy in December 1985, and closed in June 1986. Chris Williamson, who already promoted the punk and hard rock oriented `` Rock Hotel '' nights at the Ritz, then took over in November 1986. He began programming alternative rock occasionally using the designation `` Rock Motel ''. A New Year 's Eve Rock Hotel show with The Dictators turned nasty after the band initiated a food fight and a bouncer lost his cool and beat some patrons. Plans by the Polish Veterans to convert the building to condos fell through. They had to spend $25,000 on bringing the venue up to firecode before, in April 1987, Chris Williamson re-opened the club, featuring improved sound and lights, with an inaugural - in the tradition of The Clash - multi-night stand of Big Audio Dynamite,. Williamson continued putting on shows into 1988 including hosting the popular `` Milky Way '' hip hop nights but, as Irving Place gentrified, there was increasing local opposition to the hall. A plan by Williamson to present a play in the winter of 1988 fell through and, in December 1988, it was announced that the club would close and be demolished and turned into condos. The last show was The Ramones on December 31, 1988. Dee Dee Ramone praised the venue : `` It was funky without being a dump. '' Ron Delsener took on management in the early 1990s. Live Nation, a spinoff of Clear Channel Communications, renovated and reopened Irving Plaza under the name `` Fillmore New York At Irving Plaza '' on April 11, 2007, reviving the name of the former Fillmore East in Manhattan 's East Village, which had been open from 1968 to 1971. However, in May 2010 Live Nation conceded that the new name had not caught on and due to `` unrelenting demand '' the name `` Irving Plaza '' would be restored as from June 23, 2010. A replica of the original marquee has been commissioned. In September 2010, the Irving Plaza became the venue for the services of Hillsong Church New York. On February 14, 2015 Paul McCartney played a surprise show announced only that morning on Twitter. On May 25, 2016, 4 people were shot at a T.I. concert before T.I. took the stage. One of the victims died later at a hospital. References Notes Jump up ^ `` Audiovox 's Klipsch puts name on amphitheater ''. Long Island Business News. The Dolan Company. October 28, 2011. Retrieved December 23, 2016. Jump up ^ Kimble, Jillian. `` The 50 Best Concert Venues In America ''. Complex City Guide. Retrieved 31 May 2013. Jump up ^ `` Polish Cardinal Warmly Greeted ; Wojtyla Winds Up His Tour of the U.S. in New York '' New York Times ( September 5, 1976 ) Jump up ^ Rockwell, John. `` After Politics, There 's Rock, Disco or Pop Clubs to Visit '' New York Times ( August 8, 1980 ) - `` Two organizations book concerts into the facility, with two different telephone numbers. '' Jump up ^ Goodkind, Thomas S. ( 2003 - 01 - 02 ). `` Survivors of the Downtown Scene, Unite ''. Jump up ^ Jon, Pareles ( October 5, 1983 ). `` Rock : Devoto at Irving Plaze ''. New York Times. Retrieved 2010 - 04 - 03. Jump up ^ Christgau, Robert ( Jan 8, 1985 ). `` Human Jukebox ''. Village Voice,. Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 24. Jump up ^ `` Display ad in the East Village Eye c. July 1984 '' ( JPG ). Ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com. Jump up ^ `` Irving Plaza Rock Club Closes for Lack of Rent ''. Arts. New York Times. June 7, 1986. Retrieved 2010 - 04 - 03. I used every resource I had to keep this place open for new music, he said. I 'm tired, and I ca n't fight it anymore. Jump up ^ Poster for Sonic Youth show November 22, 1986 Jump up ^ `` Stop Breaking Down '' The Village Voice ( January 13, 1987 ) Jump up ^ `` Bowie, Frampton, Jimmy Cliff, Dave Stewart and Big Audio Dynamite ''. Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 24. ^ Jump up to : Browne, David ( December 25, 1988 ). `` Curtains ''. City Lights. Daily News. Jump up ^ Sisario, Ben ( March 30, 2007 ). `` Arts, Briefly ; New Name for Irving Plaza ''. New York Times. Retrieved 2009 - 06 - 14. Jump up ^ Sisario, Ben ( May 31, 2010 ). `` Rethinking, Irving Plaza Keeps Its Maiden Name ''. The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved December 23, 2016. Jump up ^ hillsongnyc.com Jump up ^ Jesse Lawrence ( 2015 - 02 - 15 ). `` Paul McCartney 's V - Day Serenade : Beatles Legend Plays 1,000 - Person Star - Studded Show in New York ''. Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016 - 05 - 26. Jump up ^ Christopher Mele ( 2016 - 05 - 25 ). `` One Fatally Shot and Three Wounded at T.I. Concert at Irving Plaza ''. NY Times. Retrieved 2016 - 05 - 26. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Irving Plaza. Official website Live Nation Entertainment Divisions Live Nation Live Nation Network Ticketmaster Artist Nation Subsidiaries Academy Music Group ( 51 % ) BigChampagne DF Concerts ( part owner ) Festival Republic ( majority owner ) Gods of Metal Hard Events MAMA & Company ( joint venture ) Festivals Big Guava BluesFest London Bospop Budweiser Made in America Calling Festival City Break Copenhell Creamfields Creamfields Australia Dcode Digital Dreams Discovery Download Faster Horses FortaRock I Love Techno Impact-fest Jamboree in the Hills KISW Pain in the Grass ( partnership ) Loud Park Lowlands Magic Summer Live Main Square Festival ( 75 % ) MixTape Music Midtown North Sea Jazz Paradiso ( partnership ) The Peach Music Festival Pinkpop Festival Pitch Popaganda Pukkelpop PunkSpring Rock the Beach Rock Werchter Sasquatch ! ( partnership ) Springroove Squamish ( 50 % ) Stockholm Music & Arts Summer Sonic Voodoo Watershed Way Out West WYCD Downtown Hoedown ( partnership ) De Wereld Draait Buiten Where the Wild Things Are House of Blues clubs and theatres ( owned venues in bold ) Revention Music Center Bogart 's Cobb 's Comedy Club Comerica Theatre Gramercy Theatre Irving Plaza The Louisville Palace NYCB Theatre at Westbury Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre Old National Centre Punch Line San Francisco Punch Line Sacramento Saint Andrew 's Hall, Detroit The Fillmore Charlotte The Fillmore Detroit The Fillmore Miami Beach The Fillmore Silver Spring Fox Performing Arts Center Riverside Municipal Auditorium The Tabernacle Wellmont Theatre Theatre of Living Arts Tower Theater Warner Theatre Other venues ( owned venues in bold ) PNC Bank Arts Center Jones Beach Theater Paramount Theatre ( booking only ) Union County Performing Arts Center ( booking only ) Glen Helen Amphitheater Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre Gibson Amphitheatre Hollywood Palladium Wiltern Theatre Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre ( Tinley Park, Illinois ) Huntington Bank Pavilion Bottom Lounge ( booking ) BB&T Pavilion Festival Pier River Stage at Great Plaza Boyd Theatre Starplex Pavilion Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center ( booking only ) Palladium Ballroom ( booking only ) Shoreline Amphitheatre Concord Pavilion The Fillmore SF Masonic Auditorium Xfinity Center Blue Hills Bank Pavilion Orpheum Theatre Paradise Rock Club Brighton Music Hall Jiffy Lube Live Lakewood Amphitheatre Chastain Park Amphitheatre Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion ( booking only ) White River Amphitheatre Ak - Chin Pavilion MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre Klipsch Amphitheatre at Bayfront Park Revolution Live ( booking only ) Fillmore Auditorium Blossom Music Center Jacobs Pavilion ( booking only ) Toyota Amphitheatre Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre ( Maryland Heights, Missouri ) The Pageant ( 50 % ) KeyBank Pavilion Coastal Credit Union Music Park Red Hat Amphitheater ( booking only ) PNC Music Pavilion Uptown Amphitheater at the NC Music Factory Klipsch Music Center Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park ( booking only ) Mattress Firm Amphitheatre SDSU Open Air Theatre ( booking only ) Viejas Arena ( booking only ) Xfinity Theatre Rentschler Field ( booking only ) Mohegan Sun Arena ( booking only ) Starlight Theatre ( booking only ) Alpine Valley Music Theatre Riverbend Music Center ( booking only ) PNC Pavilion Coral Sky Amphitheatre Oak Mountain Amphitheatre Hersheypark Stadium ( booking only ) Sands Bethlehem Event Center ( booking only ) Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater Austin360 Amphitheater Isleta Amphitheater Sandia Casino Amphitheater ( booking only ) Darien Lake Performing Arts Center The Pavilion ( Scranton, Pennsylvania ) Saratoga Performing Arts Center The Gorge Amphitheatre Jamboree in the Hills Festival Site Budweiser Stage Rogers Arena ( booking only ) Commodore Ballroom Nation London Stadium O2 Apollo Manchester Sheffield Arena O Guildhall Southampton Cream AFAS Live Ziggo Dome Motorpoint Arena Cardiff 3Arena Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Pala Alpitour Torino Palavela Palais Nikaia ( 50 % ) Toyota Music Factory Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irving_Plaza&oldid=798923227 '' Categories : Nightclubs in Manhattan Cultural history of New York City Music venues in Manhattan Drinking establishments in Manhattan New York City nightlife Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1985 Gramercy Park Hidden categories : Coordinates on Wikidata Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Français Edit links This page was last edited on 4 September 2017, at 16 : 12. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: where is irving plaza in new york city
Answer: within the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan