The New York Comedy Festival fills ten days in rooms from Madison Square Garden to Brooklyn. Here is the city round them: pick your show, see what is near its door, save the places you want and plan the hours either side.
Choose a show and every place below is measured from its room, or choose one of the festival's rooms yourself. Before or after the show, the planner on your Vision Board does the sums.
A show's published start time is not its door time or its end. Tickets and changes: the festival's own site.
The end time is yours to set: festivals publish starts, not finishes.
Forty places, from pizza under stained glass to a day up the Hudson. Each card's picture is its own pin.
40 places
Pizza from coal-fired brick ovens and the Italian standards, eaten under the high ceilings and stained glass of a restored church. Open every day until 11:30pm, so after a late show it is better before.
260 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
A Belgian restaurant at 125 West 43rd Street, a few doors along from the Town Hall at 123, that pitches itself at theatregoers. The bar keeps going late.
125 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
The Times Square branch of the Mermaid Inn's seafood restaurants: oysters and fish at 127 West 43rd Street, on the Town Hall's own block.
127 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
Italian food served family style, platters for the whole table to share, at 147 West 43rd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. One for a group before the show.
147 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
An American diner on the Town Hall's block, open from 8am every day: until 10pm Sunday to Thursday and 11pm on Friday and Saturday.
155 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
Tacos made the Mexican way, brought east by its founders, at a Times Square branch a little way west along 43rd Street from the Town Hall.
229 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
Food from breakfast to dinner, a drink, local shops and immersive art under one roof between 15th and 16th Streets, open 7am to 10pm daily. ARTECHOUSE's ocean show runs inside until 16 November.
75 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
A Hell's Kitchen dive on Ninth Avenue since 1933: fifteen beers on tap, a jukebox and a hot dog free with every drink. It stays open until 4am, long after the last show.
627 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10036
Electronic billboards and public plazas in the middle of the Theater District, looked after by the Times Square Alliance, whose district runs from 40th to 53rd Street. The Town Hall and the Hard Rock are a few blocks away.
Times Square, New York, NY 10036
TDF's booth on Broadway at West 47th Street sells the day's theatre at a discount. Its TKTS Live page shows whether the booth is open and what is on the board.
Broadway at West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036
An interactive museum given over to Broadway's history, on West 45th Street, a short walk from the Town Hall and the Hard Rock.
145 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036
A bookshop for plays, scripts and the craft of performing, long a fixture of New York's theatre world, on West 39th Street.
266 West 39th Street, New York, NY 10018
Midtown's park. Its Winter Village ice rink opens on 28 October and stays until 28 February 2027; book a skating ticket on the park's own site.
Bryant Park, New York, NY 10018
The library's flagship on Fifth Avenue. The Polonsky Exhibition shows treasures from its collections, and the Rose Main Reading Room opens to visitors from 10 to 11am, Monday to Saturday. Open daily, from 1pm on Sundays.
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018
The railway terminal on East 42nd Street, with Grand Central Market and a dining concourse inside. Its shops and restaurants keep hours of their own.
89 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017
The open-air deck on the 86th floor, heated in winter, and the 102nd floor above it, open every day of the year. Every visit is timed: book ahead or at the ticket office on West 34th Street, and look up your date's hours.
12 West 34th Street, New York, NY
Decks on the 67th, 69th and 70th floors of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 850 feet over Midtown, open 8am to midnight with last entry at 11:10pm: one that fits after a show. Tickets are timed; the way in is on 50th Street.
50 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10112
An outdoor sky deck 1,100 feet above Manhattan, reached from level 4 of the shops and restaurants at 30 Hudson Yards. It calls itself the highest in the Western Hemisphere.
30 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001
The hall on Sixth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets, with a tour that goes behind the scenes. Its calendar says what is on in festival week.
1260 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10020
Three concert halls at 57th Street and Seventh Avenue. A one-hour guided tour tells the stories behind its music and its sound, and the Rose Museum keeps its past. Box office: Monday to Saturday 11am to 6pm, Sunday from noon.
57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY
The jazz club named for Charlie Parker, with a club at street level and a theater below. Sets run about 75 minutes, every guest needs a ticket and there is a food or drink minimum each set. Ages 10 and up.
315 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Three rooms in Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street: the Rose Theater, the Appel Room and Dizzy's Club. The box office is on the ground floor of the Shops at Columbus Circle.
Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY 10019
A jazz club and restaurant on West 3rd Street with a full bar. Everyone needs a ticket to get in. The Comedy Cellar's second door is across the street.
131 West 3rd Street, New York, NY 10012
Comedy off the festival, every night, in the MacDougal Street room and in the rooms whose door is at 130 West 3rd Street. Each guest orders at least two items; the booking email names your door.
117 MacDougal Street, New York, NY 10012
Into the park at its southwest corner, where Broadway, Central Park West, Eighth Avenue and 59th Street meet. Open 6am to 1am; the four numbers on a lamppost's base give the nearest street.
Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
Central Park's memorial to John Lennon, on the west side between 71st and 74th Streets, by the West 72nd Street entrance, with the Imagine mosaic. It was dedicated in 1985.
Strawberry Fields, Central Park, New York, NY
Open daily, 10am to 5:30pm, its way in on Central Park West at 79th Street, a short walk from the Beacon Theatre. Until 18 January 2027 its ticketed show Impact looks at the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs' age.
200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
Five thousand years of art from across the world, on Fifth Avenue by Central Park. Open until 9pm on Friday and Saturday and 5pm on the other days, closed on Wednesdays. The roof garden is shut for renovation.
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028
MoMA, its main door on 53rd Street near Sixth Avenue. Open every day, 10:30am to 5:30pm and until 8:30pm on Fridays, closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas. A ticket covers every gallery and exhibition.
11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
The art of the United States, last century's and today's, by the Hudson River Greenway. Open until 10pm on Fridays, free from 5pm, and closed on Tuesdays; the Studio Bar on floor 8 has the view.
99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014
A public park built on an elevated rail line on Manhattan's West Side, with 150,000 plants and art along the way. From 19 October its stretch from 18th to 23rd Street closes for a while: check before you go.
The High Line, New York, NY
An aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943 and later a NASA recovery ship, with the Space Shuttle Pavilion and the submarine Growler in the one ticket. Open daily, 10am to 5pm, from October to March.
Pier 86, West 46th Street and 12th Avenue, New York, NY 10036
France's 1886 gift on Liberty Island, with Ellis Island beside it. The museums are free; the ticket is the ferry, and Statue City Cruises is the only one allowed to land. Boats leave from The Battery.
The Battery, New York, NY 10004
The memorial is free and open every day of the week. The museum beside it asks for a ticket bought in advance.
180 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007
The promenade over the East River from Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn Heights, under the stone arches. John A. Roebling designed it; finished in 1883, it was then the longest suspension bridge in the world.
Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY
Eighty-five acres along the Brooklyn waterfront, Pier 1 to Pier 6: lawns, gardens, riverside promenades and views of the city.
334 Furman Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Collections and changing exhibitions on Eastern Parkway, beside the Botanic Garden: a Brooklyn day with a show at the Bell House, Union Hall or Kings Theatre at the end of it.
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Gardens and conservatories with three ways in, on Eastern Parkway, Flatbush Avenue and Washington Avenue. In November it opens Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 3:30pm, closed Thanksgiving; every visitor needs a ticket.
990 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Film, television and digital media in Astoria, with The Jim Henson Exhibition: his work for the cinema and the television screen.
36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106
A day up the Hudson Valley: an 1889 railway bridge made a state park, 212 feet over the river and 1.28 miles across. Free, open from 7am and closing at 5pm in November. Metro-North runs to Poughkeepsie.
61 Parker Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Every place round the venue you chose, at its straight-line distance. Streets, rivers and stairs make the real way longer: the route link on each card asks a map for it.
Save the places you want, here in this browser, then see whether one fits round your show. Download it or print it to take along.
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The festival's dates, its venues and the shows listed here come from New York Comedy Festival's own pages: its schedule ↗ and its venues ↗. The shows are some of the festival's, not all of them. Checked 17 October 2026.
Every place links to its own site, which has the last word: hours, prices, bookings and what is on all change, so look before you set out. Distances here are straight lines between points on OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), never walking distances.
The pins' city scene is AI-assisted art from the Guide's own Pintastic Voyage kit (see the Credits).
