Union Hall | a new Brooklyn music venue in Park Slope

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Union Hall

A brand new venue/bar/restaurant opened in Park Slope. Union Hall shares an owner with Floyd, is connected loosely to the people responsible for music at Magnetic Field, and is located only a few blocks from Southpaw - 702 Union St @ 5th Ave to be exact. They've already hosted a few privatish events and a Siren Festival afterparty that featured record spinning by the bands Stars and Dirty on Purpose. Serena Maneesh stopped by too.

The entire place is over 6000 square feet with two bocce ball courts, food, and a downstairs 100-capacity music/entertainment room. Impressive shows are already showing up on their schedule like comedian Eugene Mirman and friends EVERY SUNDAY.

2006 UNION HALL SCHEDULE SO FAR
august 4 - PAGE FRANCE + guests
august 5 - OPPENHEIMER + THE METRIC MILE
august 6 - EUGENE MIRMAN + friends (every Sunday!)
august 7 - SILVERSUN PICKUPS + DAYLIGHT'S FOR THE BIRDS
august 18 - THE MUGS
august 25 - THE ROSEWOOD THIEVES
september 14 - FINIAN McKEAN + MOORE N SONS
september 21 - FREEDY JOHNSTON + CHRIS MILLS

Advanced tickets will be available at the bar, and online for bigger shows. Wanna play there? Contact Jack. His email is unionhall AT gmail.com.

Photos (of the upstairs part of the place) ripped off from a Gothamist review of the place by Youngna.

Union Hall

posted at 1:35 PM on July 19, 2006 in NYC | music | tour dates | Comments (38)

Comments (38)

18 or 21+? ...would like to see that silversun pickups show

Posted by Anonymous | July 19, 2006 1:44 PM

Nice. Just wish that SSPU wasn't on a freakin Monday.

Posted by Chris | July 19, 2006 1:55 PM

This place is pretty amazing. Good food too.

Posted by jb | July 19, 2006 2:00 PM

As nice as this place looks, the prospect of having to watch hipster doofuses play bocce whilst drinking PBR is enough to keep me away.

Posted by Sal C | July 19, 2006 2:18 PM

Has anyone tried to book a show there? How do they view new (aka no fans) bands?

Posted by Anonymous | July 19, 2006 2:28 PM

Another venue in Park Slope! I am so excited.

Posted by Anonymous | July 19, 2006 2:34 PM

how do we get tix in advance for the Silversun show?

Posted by JK | July 19, 2006 2:35 PM

"Advanced tickets will be available at the bar, and online for bigger shows."

Posted by Anonymous | July 19, 2006 2:40 PM

right, i read that too. i guess i should have been more specific. will silversun tickets be available for sale online???

Posted by JK | July 19, 2006 2:54 PM

In a city as starved for space as NY, I can think of no better way to waste square feet than with two fucking bocce ball courts.

Posted by Mike Conklin | July 19, 2006 3:12 PM

agree with mike.

im happy they arent just a bar...i think this might just be a good thing...especially considering the amount of venues that have closed the last few years.

Posted by sam | July 19, 2006 3:22 PM

what would you prefer they do with the space (where the bocce ball courts are)??

is their a hipster videogame of choice I dont know about?

Posted by Anonymous | July 19, 2006 3:26 PM

I just feel like it'd be nice to have some more seating. I mean, I've got nothing against bocce ball specifically, but I tend to believe Brooklyn doesn't need multiple bars where one can enjoy it.

Posted by Mike Conklin | July 19, 2006 3:51 PM

>Brooklyn doesn't need multiple bars where one can enjoy it.

Heaven forbid!

Posted by er | July 19, 2006 4:39 PM

page france? too fresh!

Posted by ian | July 19, 2006 4:45 PM

i agree with sam who nicely deflected mike's negative and ridiculous comment. that's like saying does williamsburg need two places that serve free pizza with a beer purchase.

the answer is: yes, of course it needs two places indeed.

Posted by aj | July 19, 2006 6:30 PM

Somebody needs a diaper change. Waaaaaaa!!!

Posted by Anonymous | July 19, 2006 9:36 PM

i think they should replace the bocce ball courts with one gigantic pool table - maybe 20 feet bu 45, with cues that are 40 feet long each, and everybody has to constantly move out of the way while the little lady takes a shot with her big long pool cue. that would be sweet.

Posted by andrew bingbong | July 20, 2006 10:19 AM

Silversun Pickups AND Daylight's for the Birds!
now that is a bill

Posted by kat | July 23, 2006 9:05 PM

Silversun Pickups AND Daylight's for the Birds!
now that is a bill...ps what in gods name is Bocce Ball?

Posted by kat | July 23, 2006 9:06 PM

i respectfully disagree with mike - anyone who has ever had to wait in the queue to play bocce at floyd (and i mean on days when it's NOT booked for league play) can definitely appreciate the double courts.

Posted by janelle | July 24, 2006 11:15 AM

bocce is gay. play horseshoes.

Posted by nick | July 24, 2006 12:34 PM

aw come on, nick. you aren't man enough to hold some balls?

Posted by ian | July 24, 2006 1:42 PM

what about Twister™

Posted by Justin | July 27, 2006 5:59 PM

what about Twister™?

Posted by jd | July 27, 2006 6:00 PM

Decent place. Nothing special. Let's hope the tiny venue downstairs has good sound. It should [almost] rival Mercury Lounge in terms of size.

Posted by Anonymous | July 31, 2006 10:30 AM

Man, I grew up with a bocce court in my back yard watching my dad and his buddies play with PBR's in hand. I guess they were the first hipsters.

Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2006 6:19 AM

THANK GOD there is a place not catering toward the baby parade in P.S. I love the slope, but I'm frankly glad there is a bocce ball court, a music venue, a bar with great food, and a casual place to sit around with friends that does not have a stoller corral inside the door. (READ: I DO NOT hate babies. I'm just saying.)

Posted by Anonymous | August 5, 2006 11:45 PM

I was there the first week they were open. More of a frat boys than Hipsters. Popped Pink Collars to Asymmetrical Haircut Ratio 5:1

Posted by Kevin | August 8, 2006 4:55 PM

I was there the first week they were open. More frat boys than Hipsters. Popped Pink Collars to Asymmetrical Haircut Ratio 5:1

Posted by Kevin | August 8, 2006 4:55 PM

I was there the first week they were open. More frat boys than Hipsters. Popped Pink Collars to Asymmetrical Haircut Ratio 5:1

Posted by Kevin | August 8, 2006 4:57 PM

When I was there, it was more of a Frat boy crowd than hipster. Popped Pink Collars to Asymmetrical Haircut ratio

5 : 1

Posted by Anonymous | August 8, 2006 5:02 PM

I disagree. On the weekend, yeah, they have that battle between highfivers and locals who just want a nice place to hang. But last night for Silversun Pickups, the place was mobbed with people I wouldn't mind rubbing shoulders with. Same with the Eugene Mirman crowd...

Posted by Nah | August 8, 2006 6:06 PM

Eight years in Park Slope...I truly appreciate the live music - even the bocce - but it's way too ivy league-ish in there (ditto to: "more frat boys than Hipsters...popped Pink Collars to Asymmetrical Haircuts.") I'm sticking with Great Lakes on 5th.

Posted by leo | August 13, 2006 1:34 AM

I love your venue, but you need to get some more acts there other than trendy childish stuff like M.Coast and some others I won't take the time to mention here and now. I can't listen to M.Coast. I mean they really are awful. Is that a cow singing? And the flute just goes on forever it seems.

Posted by Johnny | August 13, 2006 10:35 PM

Why isn't the downstairs utilized more? It just sits empty half the time--when there isn't a show. They should play good music down there and have a TV or two, for the non-hair-mousse crowd.

Posted by Don D | October 29, 2006 4:28 PM

Why isn't the downstairs utilized more? It just sits empty half the time--when there isn't a show. They should play good music down there and have a TV or two, for the non-hair-mousse crowd.

Posted by Don D | October 29, 2006 4:29 PM

not too bad

Posted by WOW GOLD | December 2, 2008 10:07 PM