Webster Hall is a nightclub and concert venue located at 125 East 11th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, near Astor Place, in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. It is one of New York City's most historically significant theater and event halls, having hosted social events of all types since the club's construction in 1886 as a "hall for hire". Its current incarnation was opened in 1992 by the Ballinger brothers, with a capacity of 1,400, providing its traditional role as well as for corporate events, and for a recording studio. A scholarly account of Webster Hall and its place in the wider history of rock music in Lower Manhattan was published in 2020.
Webster Hall just before Halloween 2010
A costume ball in the Grand Ballroom of Webster Hall 1920s
Webster Hall's Grand Ballroom in its current form
Canopy and lighting sconce over side door
A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a bar and discothèque with a dance floor, laser lighting displays, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who mixes recorded music. Nightclubs tend to be smaller than live music venues like theatres and stadiums, with few or no seats for customers.
Two DJs perform at the nightclub Space on the island of Ibiza in 2015
"The Cave" in the basement of the Gruenwald (later Roosevelt) Hotel, New Orleans opened in 1912; said by some to be one of the first nightclubs in the United States[by whom?]
The "Kakadu" (1919–1937), a Pre-World War II nightclub in Berlin, offered a bar, a dance floor, live music played by jazz band, and cabaret.
A disc jockey (DJ) mixing vinyl records on turntables (Inland Empire, 2009)
