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New Venue Alert: Terminal 5

2007_08_arts_terminal5.jpgIn their quest to take over New York, Bowery Presents is opening yet another venue! Ask just about anyone (and we have) and they'll say that the Bowery Ballroom is their favorite place to see and/or play music - so who better to open even more spaces than the creators of that one?

The latest establishment will be in Midtown and is called Terminal 5 (the old Club Exit). Currently there are no photos, but in the meantime it looks like that Google Street View image is the outside building where the new venue is housed (it will be one door down from that car dealership on the corner). While it looks like a diversion aesthetically for BP, it keeps with the neighborhood - looking decidedly "Midtown". According to the press release: "Architect Brian Swier designed the multi-million dollar renovation of Terminal 5, creating a clean, open layout for the 40,000-square-foot multilevel venue. A main floor with the performance space will feature 40' ceilings, unobstructed sightlines, and state-of-the-art sound and lighting, and a first and second wrap-around mezzanine will provide excellent views to the stage from all areas of the venue. Three bars -one on each level - will provide easy access to refreshments."

Touting itself as the "Largest Midtown Venue To Open In More Than a Decade," it's also the largest capacity venue for the Bowery Presents team to date (3000). Currently Mercury Lounge is 250, Bowery Ballroom is 550, Webster Hall is 2500 (incl. club)/1400 (main stage) and the Music Hall of Williamsburg (opening in September) has a capacity of 550. Another interesting note is that it seems they'll be branching out into the non-music world with this venue as well - they've partnered with The Fred Seidler Group to book art and other special events.

As for the music, the inaugural season will include performances by: The National, M.I.A., Justice, The Shins, The Decemberists and Ween. Doors will open in October, about a month after those at The Music Hall of Williamsburg. Our only small complaint would be the address: 610 West 56th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues - that's a bunch of long post-show avenue walks to the subway in a fairly desolate area, but it will be creating a nice alternative to the nightmarish Roseland!

Lineup and ticket details after the jump...

The initial lineup for Terminal 5 is as follows:

OCTOBER
11: The National
19: M.I.A.
20: Justice
23-24: The Shins with Vetiver

NOVEMBER
1-2: The Decemberists
23: State Radio with The Beautiful Girls 30 - 12/1: Ween

Tickets for The National, M.I.A., Justice, State Radio and Ween will go on sale Friday, August 17 at noon. Tickets for The Shins will go on sale Saturday, August 18 at noon.

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  • echardcore

    This place sucked. Don't blow your hard-earned money here. The bartender threw a drink at me for ordering a shot and a beer for me and my girl. I had to repeat the simple order several times, screaming, a Sierra, an Amstel, a Jack, and a Jim. I had added some expletives by the 4th repeat. I proceeded to gently toss the plastic cup whose contents were all over me, in an aww shucks manner, behind the bar no where near any bartenders. I was then verbally harassed by an off-duty bouncer. I was then ejected and my girl was treated very unprofessionally as well. Please please please don't deal with these unprofessionals. I'm glad I didn't get that drink order and they didn't get that money and tip, and I always tip very well. We will never go there again even if Jimi Hendrix is resurrected from his grave to play there!

  • guest

    Going to see Jimmy Eat World there on the 9th of November. If its half as sweet as the Bowery it's gonna be a mind blow.

  • Sharpster7

    "You are so cool. Can I borrow your Che Guevara T-shirt?"

    hahah that was my thought exactly.

    It will be so awesome to have a new music venue in NYC. I was starting to think Midtown was just for suits again...

  • guest

    can't wait for ween to paint the venue brown!

  • guest

    "another overpriced militarized corporate culture venue.

    Yawn."

    You are so cool. Can I borrow your Che Guevara T-shirt?

    -Tumbleweed

  • janelle

    justice! yay!

    @5 - looks like nov. 30 and dec. 12

  • MT

    I used to go to Exit all the time. It was my all-time favorite space in New York. Everything else has seemed so puny since. I'm so excited it's opening again!

  • guest

    another overpriced militarized corporate culture venue.

    Yawn.

  • guest

    webster hall holds 1400 people, not 2500.

  • matty

    a 3k capacity venue in a warehouse is gigantic. like, mega huge gigantic.

  • guest

    when is ween playing?

  • guest

    cap = 3,000

  • guest

    I don't see the Decemberists listed anywhere on their site.

  • smitty

    whats the capacity?

  • guest

    isn't this the old club exit? there was big fischer/spooner/ peaches thing there a few years back.../

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