New York: cities, venues and capacity
Where to put an event in New York. 46 cities, 1,214 venues, and the practical differences between them.
MetLife Stadium states the largest capacity in the state. The dots show what event67 would bill at that head count, and where the price stops.
New York in figures
New York is a state of United States of about 20 million people. Albany is the capital, though New York City is the largest city.
Across the state the dataset records 33 exhibition or convention halls, 66 dedicated conference and function spaces, 154 arenas and stadiums, 263 theatres and concert halls and 698 independent event spaces.
The largest stated capacity anywhere in the state is 82,500, which is the practical ceiling for a single-room programme here.
- Capital
- Albany
- has a guide
- Largest city
- New York City
- 8.5 million people
- Cities covered
- 46
- 44 with their own guide
- Venues mapped
- 1,214
- 33 convention or exhibition
One time zone across the whole state: New York time (America/New_York). Publish the schedule in it and nothing else needs saying.
The largest venues in New York
Ranked by stated capacity, then by how much the record can prove. Open data rarely publishes a capacity for a convention centre, so a hall may sit below an arena here without being the smaller room.
| Venue | City | Type | Stated capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| MetLife Stadium | New York City | stadium | 82,500 |
| Ralph Wilson Stadium | Buffalo | stadium | 71,608 |
| Proposed domed Brooklyn Dodgers stadium | New York City | stadium | 52,000 |
| JMA Wireless Dome | Syracuse | stadium | 49,262 |
| Michie Stadium | Newburgh | stadium | 38,000 |
| University at Buffalo Stadium | Amherst | stadium | 31,000 |
| Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium | Tupper Lake | stadium | 30,000 |
| Schoellkopf Field | Ithaca | stadium | 25,597 |
| Sports Illustrated Stadium | New York City | stadium | 25,189 |
| Saratoga Performing Arts Center Amphitheater | Saratoga Springs | performing-arts centre | 25,103 |
| Etihad Park | Queens | stadium | 25,000 |
| Arthur Ashe Stadium | Queens | stadium | 22,547 |
New York city by city
46 in the dataset, largest first. Each guide covers that city's venues, its airport, its local time and a worked price for an event of that size.
| City | Population | Venues mapped |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 8,478,072 | 509 |
| Brooklyn | 2,736,074 | 35 |
| Queens | 2,316,841 | 59 |
| Manhattan | 1,487,536 | 44 |
| The Bronx | 1,385,108 | 27 |
| Staten Island | 468,730 | 11 |
| Buffalo | 276,617 | 36 |
| Yonkers | 211,040 | 3 |
| Rochester | 207,282 | 32 |
| Syracuse | 146,097 | 46 |
| Amherst | 122,366 | 19 |
| Albany | 101,317 | 30 |
| West Albany | 93,794 | 17 |
| Greenburgh | 86,764 | 8 |
| New Rochelle | 85,512 | 1 |
| Cheektowaga | 75,178 | 2 |
| Schenectady | 69,495 | 25 |
| Utica | 63,660 | 29 |
| White Plains | 62,561 | 2 |
| Brentwood | 60,664 | 15 |
| Hempstead | 59,569 | 8 |
| Clay | 58,206 | 1 |
| Levittown | 51,881 | 6 |
| Irondequoit | 51,692 | 3 |
| Troy | 51,065 | 17 |
| Niagara Falls | 47,512 | 8 |
| Kiryas Joel | 43,863 | 7 |
| Henrietta | 42,581 | 12 |
| Ithaca | 33,768 | 17 |
| Poughkeepsie | 32,293 | 14 |
| Rome | 31,990 | 9 |
| Middletown | 30,188 | 18 |
| Saratoga Springs | 28,741 | 11 |
| Newburgh | 28,181 | 9 |
| Glen Cove | 28,088 | 4 |
| Vestal | 28,043 | 16 |
| Jamestown | 27,699 | 19 |
| Elmira | 26,255 | 7 |
| Plainview | 26,217 | 6 |
| Kingston | 23,748 | 35 |
| Plattsburgh | 19,758 | 5 |
| Wilton | 17,361 | 7 |
| Oswego | 17,047 | 8 |
| Batavia | 15,071 | 5 |
One more town has a venue worth its own guide
The town itself is too thinly mapped for a city guide, but the venue publishes enough to stand on its own.
- Tupper Lake: Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium (30,000), Herb Brooks Arena (7,700)
Also in New York, with nothing mapped yet to build a guide from: Mount Vernon. They appear here rather than as pages with three facts on them.
What an event costs here
A New York programme at 950 activated attendees — sized to MetLife Stadium in New York City, the largest stated capacity in the New York dataset — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.
- activated attendees
- 950activated attendees
- billable, after the free 50
- 900billable, after the free 50
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $4,500for the whole event, at $5 each
Where this data comes from
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- Administrative attributes and the population figure from Wikidata, CC0 (Wikidata (P1082)).
- City populations are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
Last updated
What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
Which New York city is best for a conference?
It depends on how many people you need to seat and how they arrive. New York City has the deepest venue list in this state, while Albany, the capital, carries the government and association calendar. The table above ranks every covered city by how many venues are mapped in it, which is the closest proxy to choice you will get before you start calling.
How many event venues are there in New York?
1,214 venues across 46 cities are mapped in this dataset, of which 33 are convention, exhibition or conference facilities. That is what open data records, not a complete registry — small function rooms inside hotels and community buildings are consistently under-mapped everywhere.
What does event67 cost for a New York event?
950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. The rate is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
What is the biggest venue in New York?
MetLife Stadium, at a stated 82,500. That is the practical ceiling for a single-room programme anywhere in the state; above it you are splitting the audience across buildings or looking outside New York.
Keep reading
Start with a city
- Hosting an event in New York City
509 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Brooklyn
35 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Queens
59 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Manhattan
44 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in The Bronx
27 venues mapped
- Hosting an event in Staten Island
11 venues mapped
Running something in New York?
Pick the city, then let the app do the schedule, the invites and the arrivals. Free for your first 50 activated attendees.