The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space is WNYC’s open gathering place. To enter is to embark on a soul-stirring journey to connect, to inspire, and to transform. All are welcome!

The nation’s most listened-to public radio station, WNYC, now enters a new dimension with the opening of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. A new destination for the city’s incomparable arts and culture scene, The Greene Space is a state-of-the-art, multimedia performance space and broadcast studio on the ground floor of WNYC’s new home, 44 Charlton Street (at Varick Street).

The Greene Space was created to galvanize conversations around the life, arts and politics of our city and our world and to be a platform for innovation and experimentation. For the first time, New Yorkers will be welcomed inside WNYC to experience great radio as it is created.

The space will host broadcasts and live tapings of WNYC’s signature programs, including The Brian Lehrer Show, The Leonard Lopate Show, Soundcheck, Evening Music, Radiolab, Studio 360, On The Media, The Fishko Files, and Jonathan Schwartz. In addition, music concerts and festivals, audio theater, literary readings, art exhibits, political debates, symposia, town hall meetings, and other exciting public events will be presented in the space.

A news ticker carves through The Greene Space and out through the windows on Varick Street, making breaking news available to passersby, including some 35 million en route to the Holland Tunnel annually.

The Greene Space is outfitted with cutting-edge digital audio and video production systems and will live as vibrantly in the virtual arena as in its physical home. Thousands of visitors a year will experience the 125-seat venue firsthand. Millions more will be able to stream audio and video of live events and download podcasts created in the space.

The use of recycled paper for printed materials, low-wattage LED theatrical lighting, a stage made of renewable bamboo and interactive programs on environmental issues are just some of the ways The Greene Space will stay green.

The Greene Space Team

Indira Etwaroo, Executive Producer, The Greene Space
Gil Shuster, Technical Director
Nikki Johnson, Production Manager
Arthur Yorinks, Artistic Advisor, A New Theater of Sound
Jenny Langsam, Special Projects Coordinator
Brianna Stimpson, Production Coordinator

Inside The Greene Space

Virtual Tour: Coming Soon

Photo Slide Show: Coming Soon

Programming Efforts:

The Greene Space will present interactive, multimedia programming to explore environmental issues that encourage people to act and make educated choices, as part of their daily lives.

Technical Specifications: View technical specs

Floor Plan: Download PDF

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Corporate Membership Space Usage Opportunities

Please Contact Vincent Gardino, Executive Director of Underwriting at vgardino@wnyc.org. Put "Space Usage Inquiry" in your subject line.

Space Rental Opportunities

Please contact The Greene Space staff at thegreenespace@wnyc.org and put “Space Usage Inquiry” in your subject line.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space was made possible by a founding grant from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.

WNYC Radio thanks the following donors for their generous support of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space and Greene Space cultural programing: the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York City Council; Office of the Manhattan Borough President; Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is funded through Community Development Block Grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency; Sidney E. Frank Foundation; Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Arthur Foundation.

Fazioli is the official piano of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, courtesy of Klavierhaus.