OVERVIEW
This event and entertainment complex is home to the Hammerstein Ballroom, which was built in 1906 as the Manhattan Opera House and has 12,000 square feet on its main floor. The Hammerstein has two balconies, six opera boxes, and 75-foot ceilings embellished with a large fresco of angels; it seats 1,000 people banquet-style or 2,400 theater-style, and holds 2,500 for receptions or 3,400 for concerts. The seventh-floor grand ballroom seats 550 banquet-style or holds 1,200 for receptions, in theater-style seating, or for concerts.
