Radio City Music Hall the "International Music Hall" and the Center Theatre, as part of the "Radio City" portion of Rockefeller Center. The 5,960-seat Music Hall was the larger of the two venues. It was largely successful until the 1970s, when declining patronage nearly drove the Music Hall to bankruptcy. Radio City Music Hall was designated a New York City Landmark in May 1978, and the Music Hall was restored and allowed to remain open. The hall was extensively renovated in 1999. Radio City Music Hall was designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style. One of the more
The Town Hall (New York City) States and twelve cities on three continents. It won numerous awards. Recordings of "America's Town Meeting of the Air", from 1935 to 1952, are preserved at the United States' National Archives' Donated Historical Materials collection, the catalog number of which is "DM.13". The organizational records (archives) of Town Hall, Inc. and "America's Town Meeting of the Air", 1895–1955, are held by the Manuscripts and Archives Division of The New York Public Library. The Town Hall was owned by New York University for twenty years beginning in 1958. The outstanding acoustic properties of Town Hall for musical performance — which some