New York is home to the hottest dance clubs, and NYC.com guides you to them. There's no better city in the world for a night at a dance club than New York, with a generous collection of offerings that range from hip-hop to house to punk. From packed houses for thousands to smaller venus for a few dozen. From mainstream to underground. You are sure to find what the right floor, with the right music, for you to find your groove and bust a move.
Weird. Wild. Wonderful. A Performance fueled Night Club and Creative Venue programmed with eclectic events and fabulous dance parties. Everyone is Welcome. A space created as a temple of expression, dedicated to connection, creativity and celebrating life and a belief that perfo...
2 Wyckoff Ave (Jefferson Street)The cool kids have fled Williamsburg and march lemming like a few blocks North to Greenpoint. Here they fall into the latest club-cum-bar-cum lounge. Large room with leather banquettes to canoodle in or oggle from. Smaller room for more intimate moments. Like when words ought be ...
98 Meserole AveBringing the energy made famous by Mediteranian nightlife and electronic music hot spot, SPACE IBIZA North American beachhead brings top tier musical talent, a fantastic sound system and of course the lovely SPACE IBIZA dancers. Here you will find the hippest crowd, as models mi...
637 West 50th Street (at 12th Avenue)Even though this safari style live music club is called Sounds of Brazil, you can expect to dance to all different types of music here. There’s reggae, hip-hop, R&B, jazz and salsa just to name a few. In a nutshell, S.O.B’s embraces NYC's diversity, and is a quality place to ...
204 Varick StThe self-proclaimed voluminous ultralounge, Marquee offers much of everything, more over-the-top style, décor and DJs than most people could ever imagine. Everyone seems beautiful, and the bottle service and specialty cocktails make it all seem even more beautiful. If you're not ...
289 10th Ave (Betwen West 28th and 29th Streets)A friendly and intimate venue where one can dance to regular DJs, but does not have the "bottle table" club feel. Place for friends to gather, drink, and sway without concern to scene, hipness, or people from New Jersey.
249 Eldridge StreetWebster Hall has managed to soldier on over the years, while most of it's big club competitors long since called it a night. Their location in the East Village helps, and the club is something of an annex for less studious minded NYU students. Young crowds and cavernous space wit...
125 E 11th StWhat do you get when you mix a retro beauty salon full of 1950s products and hairdryers along with a full bar and great beers on tap? It's Beauty Bar! Beauty Bar is amazingly cool because it spans the decades with its hipness, so hip that it now has branches in L.A., San Fran, Sa...
231 E 14th St (Between Second and Third Aves.)This Williamsburg bar has a great vibe and a fun, unpretentious crowd filled with people who really just want to bump and grind on the tiny basement dance floor. The bartenders are really helpful, and the space is nearly always happening, unlike most places which don’t get starte...
81 S 6th Street (Berry St.)From its state-of-the-art space in the Meatpacking District, Cielo provides a music program specializing in deeply soulful house music as well as various genres of electronic music. The space is built for sound and dancing, with luxurious banquettes surrounding a midsize sunken ...
18 Little West 12 Street (9th Ave. and Washington St.)This bar is Bulgarian as all get-out, with serving area like a frozen outpost and a dance floor that evokes all the right Eurotrash comparisons. Upstairs Gypsy bands play tunes from the old country, downstairs things get, well as the sign says "Get Naked, Get a Free Shot.&q...
113 Ludlow StreetConverted auto shop run by a host of NYC nightlife vets that is about the music and not the mega-club scene. Truly democratic - with welcoming door policy, relatively inexpensive drinks and a rarefied menu of EDM. Be aware that capacity is limited - roughly 150.
395 Wythe Ave (at foot of Williamsburg Bridge)A fun hip place with eclectic mix of DJs and live music attracting crowds of young folks in the know. Nightlife is not the only thing, for the fun of the food matches the fun of the vibe, making this a great place to start or end the evening!
146 Broadway (Bedford Ave)Tucked into the hyper hip Tao – Downtown. A place for the young to come and see and be seen, toss around piles of cash as they dance and prance in highly stylized environment meant to evoke an exotic Asia.
92 9th AveNamed for the Magnum PI of Germany (you know, that cop from Tatort that had a stellar mustache), Schimanski is the reboot of the old Verboten which collapsed as the scandal riddled owners were carted off to the klink by real mustachioed badgemen. But the scene and sound pretty mu...
55 North 11th Street (near Wythe Ave)When two respected nightlife impresarios joined forced, a neglected turn-of-the-century horse stable transformed into one of New York's most elite and desirable event destinations. Since opening in the spring of 2008, Hudson Terrace has become the venue of choice for some unforge...
621 West 46th StreetThe Standard Hotel's rooftop bar, with help from Parisian nightclub fixture Andre Saraiva, who has created a "penthouse discothèque" for the Standard's already game-changing nightlife offerings in the Meatpacking District. As one would expect of the sinful brand, Le Bai...
848 Washington StreetA certain segment of jaded New Yorkers view the changes wrought to the city in places like Times Square and wonder with dismay - "where have all the bad times gone"? They see the disneyfication of the city making it palatable, if bland. Tourist friendly for mid-western ...
199 Bowery (Spring Street)Hidden entrance? Check. Models? Check. Expensive drinks? Check. Great music? Check. Yep, this is the secret spot that everyone knows about. Slick, elegant, beautiful little place that is crammed with people on the weekends. Excellent djs spin some great music, creating great vibe...
Entrance at 16th and 11thDream Downtown's glitzy, mirror-covered and strobe-lit rooftop lounge brings the weighty Eighties back to Chelsea, with spectacular views of the skyline and the Empire State Building from twelve stories up.
355 West 16th StreetHotel Gansevoort's swank nightclub with entrance between 13th and Ganesvoort Streets. It has been said that the men who started it - Michael Satsky and Brian Gefter - intended to "cater to women's every desire". Which may give you a sense of what transpires here. Beauti...
Hotel Gansevoort<BR>18 9th AvenueLike, seriously, OMG! A restaurant AND a nightclub?! That is what you find at Lavo - nightclub downstairs, Italian restaurant upstairs. Both are a blurry facsimile of the Meatpacking district where the well monied young and beautiful who couldn't be bothered with downtown, becaus...
38 E 58th St (Madison Ave)Split level Chelsea dance club from nightlife makers the Butter Group (1Oak). Different atmospheres on each level, with the upstairs booming, high energy dance floor, and the lower level having that downtown lounge feel, more relaxed, which is not to say things don't get a little...
244 West 14th Street (8th Ave)