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Roseland Ballroom
239 West 52nd Street · Midtown, Manhattan40.7639° N / 73.9846° W
Overview
Long-running Midtown ballroom used across eras for social dancing, freestyle nights, and concerts.
Roseland Ballroom was a long-running Midtown dance hall and concert venue, used across decades for social dancing, freestyle nights, and live music before its 2014 closure and demolition. It is often cited as a thread connecting the city's ballroom-dancing past to later club and concert use.
Oral histories & archival media
Archive plates
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Placeholder plates — cleared scans drop in here
Sonic profile
discomixedballroom
Cultural role
social dancingmulti-era venueconcertshost of major vogue balls
Tags
#ballroom#concerts#freestyle#West52nd#vogueballs