69th Regiment Armory

Volunteered to help at the Gran Fondo New York Bike Expo that was located within the armory. This place is so beautiful! It is spacious and there is warm and inviting charm within this historical structure. It looks like a wonderful place to have events.

Well its a big metal box. Or domed/​arched metal box to be more accurate. Certainly looks and feels like a government facility, which it is. Restrooms are downstairs and gotta say its a little dirtyish. Kinda like an airport.

Came here for Wine Riot. Had a blast! Even though there were tons of people in here, the place was big enough that we weren’t on top of each other. Great space! Hope to be back next year for another wine riot!!!

It is NY coffee festival for the weekend and they held it here. Very spacious inside with many exhibitors. I was not only able to brew coffee by myself (with the help of instructor, very helpful), but also tried a variety of coffee. Starbucks also had a special reserved place with a very cool brewing machine. There was a food court to the very end of the hall with macarons and sandwiches.

Been here many times for the Hand Crafted Tasting Co. NYC Craft Beer Festival. It’s an older venue that could use a facelift /​renovation, but it does the job. It’s a humongous quadruple height space with plenty of room for tables of vendors and a 6 piece band. Downstairs are the toilet rooms, that are old but toilets and urinals are a plenty. There is also a lounge space in the basement with a commercial kitchen and bar where they usually have the Connoisseur or VIP area. The HVAC could use some upgrading as it tends to get hot with the large amount of people. I get why they keep using this venue… it probably has a decent price to rent, but I would prefer they held the festival somewhere like they did a few years ago at Basketball City.

Weird place to have a show. Good acoustics but with all the seats being set on the floor it is impossible to see beyond the third row. Maybe fancier shows bring their own stadium seating? I guess it’s good for a rave, but I’m too old for raves.

This place is a hidden gem. Great event space, so much history to encounter, and a sure fire spot to meet some really colorful characters with stories to tell.

I have been walking by the 69^th since I was a little kid. Love the place.
I am reviewing the Garryowen bar, and I love it. It is basically an Officers Club, so its a little hard to get in. But if you find an opportunity as a guest definitely go.
Very old school and like I said an «Officers’ Bar», someone here else said a soldiers’ bar — it is not. Meaning there is a certain level of dress you should wear here. Coat and tie is nice, but not required. It has a very dignified ambiance.

I’ve been here a couple of times for the craft beer festivals they hold here, and it’s a solid event space. I do like the fact that they have a giant bathroom in the basement with what appears to be an infinite number of urinals. This also means they’re incredibly and awkwardly close to each other…
It’s a huge space, and the staff here seems to have a good strategy in place to get people in and out in an orderly fashion. They do need to improve on their temperature control though, it’s always freakin’ hot in here. Back in March the heat was on full blast throughout the event, and in June the AC was non-​existent.

For an event space, the 69^th Regiment Armory is extremely versatile.
Having attended two different charity events in the space, you can really see the armory’s potential. It has a bit of an old New York character and feel, and with good reason given it’s history. It’s true that it is a very old, run-​down building — but its capabilities are endless and infinite, as both the events I’ve been to have been very upscale and very different setups.

Two events I’ve attended here, both craft beer festivals.
It’s a good setup. Easy to get around, plentiful bathrooms (if you’re a dude, the line to the ladies room was super long), clean, comfortable. I love old buildings like this and it made me miss living across the street from the Park Slope Armory.
With two great experiences under my belt here, this place gets a thumbs up from me.

Hidden gem in the 69^th Regiment Armory is the Garryowen (Soldier’s Bar) club. The bar is open Tuesday and Thursday nights only after 6:00 PM. The Bar is themed after the regiment’s Irish and military heritage. It’s a full bar including draft and bottled beers. The beers cost about $ 5.00 dollars and the mixed drinks about $ 6.00 dollars. To gain access to the bar you have to be a guest of an active or veteran member of the regiment. Or just knock and they might escort you in.

The armory is a really interesting, unique event space. I attended the New York Craft beer festival there and found the space fascinating. The festival was awesome with an incredible selection of beer to try, though the hired out bartenders knew surprisingly little about the beer they were serving for the most part. Event staff was even nice and let us in early to wait in the heat on a frigid day. The space itself is really cool, it feels like the inside of an airplane hangar decorated with decorations from the regiment that is based here. There are even some cool display cases with missiles and stuff by the bathroom. Awesome place for an event.

I’ve been here many times for different types of events, mainly 2 Village Voice Choice Eats events, Unilocal Snowball event, and recently the Coffee and Tea Festival this year
The layout of this place is really cool for expos. One floor for everything. Spacious enough to accommodate a large group of people.
Downsides: The more I come here, the more I noticed how run down the place is. The floors, the ceilings, the bathrooms downstairs. I’m sure they do some type of yearly maintenance but it’s clearly not enough.

Came for the VIllage Voice Choice Eats event here and the line to get in was about an hour long. There were a lot of restaurants represented and they had a few goodies for you to take away. Not sure if it was worth the $ 50 entry fee but it was fun. The armory itself is a large space and is set up for this kind of event.

Came here for the New York Coffee & Tea festival and had a great time! Great space and amazing festival. Looking forward to finding more events held here.

Has
The feel
Of one big
Gymnasium
Where having space is the priority.

For some reason, it reminded me of an airplane hanger when I walked into the Unilocal Snow Ball. The theme song of Pearl Harbor or something should have been playing. Anywho, it definitely seemed big enough to hold a small aircraft or a plane filled with Unilocalers — you decide.
The entrance way into the girl’s bathroom was so narrow, you could tell it was meant for an age when people were smaller… like pig mes or cavemen. It was fairly clean for the most part, but four working stalls all night long had you wondering if you were balls-​y enough to try to make a run for the men’s room when no one was looking.
It’s really a great space to have a dinner reception or a small wedding since the acoustics were pretty awesome. The history along the walls depicting those that served and died in 9−11−01 was really a solemn reminder that we are only able to be enjoying ourselves at our Snow Ball because of those who sacrifice for us every day — our men and women in the armed services.

This venue deserves a 4 star for all the history, patriotism, and honor behind it. You can see the building hosts some window display of honors and stories behind different war times.
The venue itself is as big as a basketball stadium so it can easily be transformed to host a big party, concert, etc. I came here for the Unilocal Party and it served the purpose. I do wonder if it is possible to renovate this place and make it a bit more upscale.
I gave it 3 star because this is not where you come for glamorous, trendy and upscale parties.

Was here for the Unilocal Snow Ball event. This review is for the armory
only. Large space like a gymnasium with awesome outside architecture. If you are a military history buff this place is like a museum, with artifacts, pictures, uniforms, weapons, medals, etc, and is a great place to learn about NYC’s military endeavors. The armory personell has been involved with wars going back to the Civil War! Hut-​Hut!

If you google this place Victoria’s Secret fashion show pics show up.
It’s a big place that reminds me of a gymnasium. The only thing missing are the rope climbs and dodge balls.
This was the location of the Unilocal Snowball Event. It was large enough to hold everyone.

Massive venue with a lodge/​high school gymnasium feel.
The outside of the building is stunning.
The inside is… not quite what you would expect based on the exterior. An excellent location for a Unilocal event where vendors are situated on the outer rectangle and it gave plenty of room for people to mingle/​line up waiting for lobster bites/​whatever was next to that station!
It sort of felt like a Catholic church with the seating on the upper level looking down at the masses. Mixed with an urban loft with a massive freight elevator. With part gymnastics practice hall and a splash of a masonic lodge. (Strange but it worked!)
A very convenient location that can hold a LARGE group of people!