The
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue
(between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street)
www.bam.org
The Brooklyn Academy of Music houses the BAM Opera House, BAM
cafe and BAM Rose Cinemas. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), is
America’s oldest operating performing arts center. Currently
in its 139th year, BAM's first performance was in 1861 at the
start of the American Civil War and in 1907 moved to its current
location at 30 Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene
The BAM Harvey Theater is located a block and a half away at 651
Fulton Street between Ashland Place and Rockwell Place.
From the West Side of Manhattan to the BAM Opera House:
Take the 2 or 3 train to Atlantic Avenue. BAM is located exactly
one block from the train station (look for the clock tower and
walk down Ashland Place to the far side of the same block.
BAM presents concerts, contemporary and
classical dance, performance art, theater for young people,
repertory and first run films, and reaches out to artists and
audiences throughout the city as well as being home to both the
Brooklyn Philharmonic (a first-rate orchestra with more
adventurous programming than the NY Philharmonic) and the Next
Wave Festival.
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