The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Entrance of venue (c.2011)
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| Full name | Irving Plaza, powered by Klipsch |
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| 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 |
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Coordinates: 40°44′6″N 73°59′18″W / 40.73500°N 73.98833°W
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.
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.
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 don't have video" Terzella's club filed for bankruptcy in December 1985, and closed in June 1986.
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