Editing Carnegie Hall (section)

=== Deterioration and renovation ===

==== 1960s and 1970s ====
A minor renovation of Carnegie Hall's interior, as well as a steam-cleaning of the facade, took place in mid-1960.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hughes |first=Allen|author-link=Allen Hughes|date=July 22, 1960 |title=Carnegie Hall Getting New Paint and Upholstery for Fall Season|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/07/22/archives/carnegie-hall-getting-new-paint-and-upholstery-for-fall-season.html |url-status=live |access-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819182659/https://www.nytimes.com/1960/07/22/archives/carnegie-hall-getting-new-paint-and-upholstery-for-fall-season.html |archive-date=August 19, 2021}}</ref> The basement recital hall became a movie theater called the Carnegie Playhouse. A screen was installed at the front of the former stage, while the balconies and side galleries were sealed.<ref name="nyt19980103" /><ref name="Stern (2006) p. 733" /> The Carnegie Hall Cinema opened in May 1961 with a showing of the film ''[[White Nights (1957 film)|White Nights]]'' by [[Luchino Visconti]].<ref>{{cite news |date=May 29, 1961 |title=Film Notes |page=4|newspaper=New York Herald Tribune |id={{ProQuest|1326941243}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley|author-link=Bosley Crowther|date=May 29, 1961 |title=Italian Film Opens New Carnegie Hall Cinema|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/05/29/archives/italian-film-opens-new-carnegie-hall-cinema.html |url-status=live |access-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819182526/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/05/29/archives/italian-film-opens-new-carnegie-hall-cinema.html |archive-date=August 19, 2021}}</ref> Carnegie Hall received a concert organ from the Netherlands in 1965, although the stage had to be renovated before the organ could be installed.<ref name="nyt-1965-06-30">{{Cite news |last=Strongin |first=Theodore|author-link=Theodore Strongin|date=June 30, 1965 |title=A $125,000 Organ Given to Carnegie; Installation Requires Major Alterations to Stage|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/06/30/archives/a-125000-organ-given-to-carnegie-installation-requires-major.html |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref> The installation of the organ was delayed several times, as opponents feared that the changes would damage the hall's acoustics.<ref name="nyt-1969-03-20">{{Cite news |last=Henahan |first=Donal|author-link=Donal Henahan|date=March 20, 1969 |title=At Carnegie Hall: 'No Serious Problems'|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/20/archives/at-carnegie-hall-no-serious-problems.html |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref> Meanwhile, Carnegie Hall was profitable by the late 1960s, having consistently hosted about 350 shows a year during that decade.<ref name="nyt-1969-03-20" />

Carnegie Hall became a more popular destination in the 1960s and 1970s, in part because of complaints over acoustics in the new Philharmonic Hall.<ref name="nyt19820221" /><ref name="Stern (2006) p. 731">{{harvnb|Stern|Fishman|Tilove|2006|ps=.|p=731}}</ref> The deficiencies with Carnegie Hall's facilities became more prominent after the latter's renovation.<ref name="nyt19820221" /> Carnegie Hall began to deteriorate due to neglect, and the corporation faced fiscal deficits. By the mid-1970s, the venue suffered from burst pipes and falling sections of the ceiling, and there were large holes in the balconies that patrons could put their feet through. At the same time, operating costs had increased from $3.5 million in 1977 to $10.3 million in 1984, and the deficits had also risen accordingly.<ref name="p135117567">{{cite news|last=Cox|first=Meg|date=May 17, 1985|title=Fabled Carnegie Hall, Often Close to Death, Will Receive Surgery: But the Challenge to Restorers Of New York Auditorium Is to Avoid Harming It Fabled Carnegie Hall in New York Will Soon Receive Major Surgery|page=1|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|id={{ProQuest|135117567}}}}</ref> Carnegie Hall's equipment included a rundown air-conditioning system that did not work in the summer.<ref name="Stern (2006) pp. 731-732">{{harvnb|Stern|Fishman|Tilove|2006|ps=.|pp=731–732}}</ref>

In 1977, the Carnegie Hall Corporation decided to stop allowing new residents for its upper-story studios; existing residents were allowed to continue living there.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schumach |first=Murray |date=November 14, 1977 |title=Carnegie Hall to End Its Live-In Studios for Artists|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/14/archives/carnegie-hall-to-end-its-livein-studios-for-artists-carnegie-hall.html |url-status=live |access-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820144537/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/14/archives/carnegie-hall-to-end-its-livein-studios-for-artists-carnegie-hall.html |archive-date=August 20, 2021}}</ref> The studios were instead offered mainly to commercial tenants, who could afford to pay higher rents.<ref name="Herman 1979">{{Cite news |last=Herman |first=Robin |date=February 26, 1979 |title=City Studies Artists' Protests Over Rents at Carnegie Hall|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/26/archives/city-studies-artists-protests-over-rents-at-carnegie-hall-250000.html |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref> This prompted protests from the existing tenants.<ref name="n110355510" /><ref name="Herman 1979" /> In 1979, the board of Carnegie Hall Corporation hired [[James Stewart Polshek]] and his firm, [[Polshek Partnership]], to create a master plan for Carnegie Hall's renovation and expansion. Polshek found that Carnegie Hall's electrical systems, exits, fire alarms, and other systems were not up to modern building codes.<ref name="nyt19820221" /> The next year, the Carnegie Hall Corporation and the New York City government signed a [[memorandum of understanding]], which would permit the development of the adjacent site to the east, a parking lot.<ref name="Stern (2006) p. 732" /><ref name="Shipp">{{Cite news|last=Shipp|first=E. R.|author-link=E. R. Shipp|date=October 21, 1980|title=Carnegie Hall and City Negotiating on Renovation and Air-Rights Use|page=B3|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/21/archives/carnegie-hall-and-city-negotiating-on-renovation-and-airrights-use.html|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819000418/https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/21/archives/carnegie-hall-and-city-negotiating-on-renovation-and-airrights-use.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Randy|date=October 21, 1980|title=Mull sale of air rights over Carnegie Hall|page=65|newspaper=New York Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83767827/mull-sale-of-air-rights-over-carnegie/|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819224128/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83767827/mull-sale-of-air-rights-over-carnegie/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1981, the federal government gave Carnegie Hall $1.8 million for the renovation; the city and Astor Foundation had previously given $450,000.<ref>{{Cite news|date=January 21, 1981|title=U.S. Gives $1.8 Million For Carnegie Renovation|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/21/arts/us-gives-1.8-million-for-carnegie-renovation.html|access-date=August 21, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821151423/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/21/arts/us-gives-1.8-million-for-carnegie-renovation.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== 1980s ====
The first renovations started in February 1982 with the restoration and reconstruction of the recital hall and studio entrance.<ref name="nyt19820221">{{Cite news|last=Rockwell|first=John|author-link=John Rockwell|date=February 21, 1982|title=Carnegie Hall Begins $20 Million Renovation|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/21/arts/carnegie-hall-begins-20-million-renovation.html|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819002354/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/21/arts/carnegie-hall-begins-20-million-renovation.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The lobby was lowered to street level, the box office was relocated behind the main auditorium, and two archways were added to the 57th Street facade.<ref name="Stern (2006) p. 732" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Goldberger|first=Paul|date=March 7, 1982|title=A Superb Scheme for the Renovation of Carnegie Hall|page=D27|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/07/arts/architecture-view-superb-scheme-for-renovation-carnagie-hall-paul-goldberg.html|access-date=August 21, 2021|id={{ProQuest|121888912}}|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821151430/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/07/arts/architecture-view-superb-scheme-for-renovation-carnagie-hall-paul-goldberg.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A new lobby and dedicated elevator for the recital hall was also created.<ref name="p424782471" /><ref name="n83763694">{{Cite news|date=July 4, 1982|first=Peter|last=Goodman|title=A building boom for the arts|page=117|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83763694/a-building-boom-for-the-arts/|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819213805/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83763694/a-building-boom-for-the-arts/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Carnegie Hall Corporation was also looking to develop a vacant lot immediately east of Carnegie Hall.<ref name="n83763694" /><ref name="Shipp"/> The renovation was complicated by the fact that some parts of the original plans had been lost.<ref name="Stern (2006) p. 732" /><ref name="nyt19820221" /> A controversy also emerged when the Carnegie Hall Corporation started evicting longtime tenants of the upper-story studios, particularly those who refused to pay steeply increased rents.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Phelps|first=Timothy M.|date=January 18, 1981|title=Carnegie Hall and Tenants Wrangle Over Rent Rises|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/nyregion/carnegie-hall-and-tenants-wrangle-over-rent-rises.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820144536/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/nyregion/carnegie-hall-and-tenants-wrangle-over-rent-rises.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=King|first=Martin|date=April 2, 1982|title=Tenants: Carnegie Hall is giving us the hook|page=94|newspaper=New York Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83713538/tenants-carnegie-hall-is-giving-us-the/|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819012947/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83713538/tenants-carnegie-hall-is-giving-us-the/|url-status=live}}</ref> The first phase of the renovation was completed in September 1983 for $20 million.<ref name="p424782471" /> A second phase included upgrades to mechanical systems, such as air-conditioning and elevators.<ref name="nyt19850517" /><ref name="n110354481">{{Cite news |last=Shepard |first=Joan |date=July 28, 1986 |title=Carnegie crescendoing |page=93|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110354481/carnegie-crescendoingjoan-shepard/ |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref><ref name="n110355099">{{Cite news |last=Goodman |first=Peter |date=December 16, 1985 |title=Carnegie gets $3.7 Million gifts |page=123|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110355099/carnegie-gets-37-million-giftspeter/ |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref>

[[File:Carnegie Hall Tower.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Carnegie Hall Tower]] next to Carnegie Hall]]

As part of the third phase of renovations, a recording studio called the Alice and Jacob M. Kaplan Space was built within the old chapter room on the fifth floor, directly above the main hall.<ref name="n110354481" /><ref name="n110355099" /> The Kaplan Space opened in March 1985.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 4, 1985 |title=Carnegie Hall Opens Studio for Rehearsal and Recording|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/04/arts/carnegie-hall-opens-studio-for-rehearsal-and-recording.html |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref> The corporation announced in May 1985 that the main hall and recital hall would be closed for several months. The corporation also started a fundraising drive to raise the $50 million needed to fund the renovation; more than half of the funding had already been raised at the time. A new structure designed by [[César Pelli]], later to become the [[Carnegie Hall Tower]], was planned for the lot immediately east of Carnegie Hall.<ref name="p135117567" /><ref name="nyt19850517">{{Cite news|last=Rockwell|first=John|author-link=John Rockwell|date=May 17, 1985|title=Carnegie Hall to Close for 7 Months Next Year|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/17/arts/carnegie-hall-to-close-for-7-months-next-year.html|access-date=August 18, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819000419/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/17/arts/carnegie-hall-to-close-for-7-months-next-year.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=May 20, 1985|title=Carnegie Hall renovations|page=118|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|first=Peter|last=Goodman|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83806992/carnegie-hall-renovations/|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820173056/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83806992/carnegie-hall-renovations/|url-status=live}}</ref> Further upgrades, which required the main and recital halls' closure, included upgrades to both halls, the lobby, the facade, backstage areas, and offices. The lobby was lowered to street level and doubled in size.<ref name="Shepard 1986" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Rockwell|first=John|author-link=John Rockwell|date=April 16, 1986|title=Carnegie Hall's Plans|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/16/arts/carnegie-hall-s-plans.html|access-date=August 18, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819000421/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/16/arts/carnegie-hall-s-plans.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the proposed renovation in July 1985.<ref name="Stern (2006) p. 732" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=July 25, 1985|title=Landmarks Panel Backs Carnegie Hall Project|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/25/arts/landmarks-panel-backs-carnegie-hall-project.html|access-date=August 21, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821151423/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/25/arts/landmarks-panel-backs-carnegie-hall-project.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Renovation work began afterward. The project was complicated by the need to schedule construction around performances, the lack of a freight elevator, and the requirement that materials be replaced with close or exact replacements.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Purdum|first=Todd S.|date=January 5, 1986|title=Art Slows Carnegie's Rebuilding|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/05/nyregion/art-slows-carnegie-s-rebuilding.html|access-date=August 21, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821151421/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/05/nyregion/art-slows-carnegie-s-rebuilding.html|url-status=live}}</ref>  In April 1986, Carnegie officials announced their intent to sublease the vacant lot to Rockrose Development for the construction of Carnegie Hall Tower.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Goldberger|first=Paul|date=April 30, 1986|title=Carnegie Hall Details Plans for Office Tower|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/30/arts/carnegie-hall-details-plans-for-office-tower.html|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=May 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524194608/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/30/arts/carnegie-hall-details-plans-for-office-tower.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Flynn|first=Kevin|date=April 30, 1986|title=Carnegie Plans For Office Tower|page=21|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83772420/carnegie-plans-for-office-tower/|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820000649/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83772420/carnegie-plans-for-office-tower/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Shepard|first=Joan|date=April 30, 1986|title=Deal will make Carnegie tall|page=103|newspaper=New York Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83772217/deal-will-make-carnegie-tall/|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820000649/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83772217/deal-will-make-carnegie-tall/|url-status=live}}</ref> The following month, the hall closed completely for a seven-month renovation.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Larkin|first=Kathy|date=May 15, 1986|title=They shutter to think of the future for hall|page=157|newspaper=New York Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83807252/they-shutter-to-think-of-the-future-for/|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820173057/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83807252/they-shutter-to-think-of-the-future-for/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Goodman|first=Peter|date=May 8, 1986|title=Restoring Carnegie Hall to Its Glory|page=199|newspaper=Newsday|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83807475/restoring-carnegie-hall-to-its-glory/|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820173057/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83807475/restoring-carnegie-hall-to-its-glory/|url-status=live}}</ref> The hall's plaster decorations were restored, although the carpeting and seats were replaced.<ref name="n110354481" /> That November, Carnegie Hall announced it would rename the recital hall after Joan and Sanford I. Weill, who not only were major donors to the renovation but also enlisted other donors to fund the project.<ref name="n110349671" /><ref name="nyt-1986-11-06" /> The Weill family had donated $2.5 million, more than any other donor in the hall's history.<ref name="n110349671" />

The main hall (including the Stern Auditorium) was reopened on December 15, 1986, with a gala featuring [[Zubin Mehta]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Vladimir Horowitz]], and the New York Philharmonic.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rockwell|first=John|author-link=John Rockwell|date=December 16, 1986|title=Rejuvenated Carnegie Is Again Premier Hall|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/16/arts/rejuvenated-carnegie-is-again-premier-hall.html|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819012948/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/16/arts/rejuvenated-carnegie-is-again-premier-hall.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Whitaker|first=Barbara|date=December 16, 1986|title=Reborn Splendor on 57th Street|page=4|newspaper=Newsday|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83713663/reborn-splendor-on-57th-street/|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819012953/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83713663/reborn-splendor-on-57th-street/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Kaplan Rehearsal Space was also created in 1986,<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Hall: Timeline – 1986 Full interior renovation completed|url=http://www.carnegiehall.org/History/Timeline/Timeline.aspx?id=4294968843|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095338/http://www.carnegiehall.org/History/Timeline/Timeline.aspx?id=4294968843|archive-date=March 4, 2016|access-date=November 14, 2014|publisher=Carnegie Hall}}</ref> and the Weill Recital Hall opened in January 1987.<ref>{{Cite news|date=January 3, 1987|title=Weill Recital Hall to Open With Festival|page=45|newspaper=Newsday|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83833266/weill-recital-hall-to-open-with-festival/|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821000546/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83833266/weill-recital-hall-to-open-with-festival/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Rockwell|first=John|author-link=John Rockwell|date=January 6, 1987|title=Weill Recital Hall Opens at Carnegie|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/06/arts/weill-recital-hall-opens-at-carnegie.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818152704/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/06/arts/weill-recital-hall-opens-at-carnegie.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A month after the main hall reopened, ''New York Times'' music critic [[Bernard Holland]] criticized its acoustics, saying: "The acoustics of this magnificent space are not the same."<ref name="Stern (2006) p. 732">{{harvnb|Stern|Fishman|Tilove|2006|ps=.|p=732}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Holland|first=Bernard|author-link=Bernard Holland|date=January 29, 1987|title=Critic's Notebook; Setting the Right Tone for 'new' Carnegie Hall|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/29/arts/critic-s-notebook-setting-the-right-tone-for-new-carnegie-hall.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820173056/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/29/arts/critic-s-notebook-setting-the-right-tone-for-new-carnegie-hall.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The Weill Recital Hall also received complaints about its acoustics, prompting Carnegie Hall officials to test out noise-absorbing panels in that space.<ref name="nyt-1987-04-16">{{Cite news |last=Holland |first=Bernard|author-link=Bernard Holland|date=April 16, 1987 |title=New Season for Carnegie and New Sound for Weill|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/16/arts/new-season-for-carnegie-and-new-sound-for-weill.html |access-date=September 28, 2022 }}</ref> Several noise-absorbing panels were installed in the main hall in 1988,<ref name="Stern (2006) p. 732" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|author-link=Allan Kozinn|date=September 22, 1988|title=Critic's Notebook; Seeking a Consensus on Carnegie|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/22/arts/critic-s-notebook-seeking-a-consensus-on-carnegie.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820173058/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/22/arts/critic-s-notebook-seeking-a-consensus-on-carnegie.html|url-status=live}}</ref> but complaints continued for several years.<ref name="Stern (2006) p. 732" /> Critics alleged there was concrete underneath the stage, but Carnegie Hall officials denied the allegations. Isaac Stern offered to disassemble the stage on the condition that the critics pay for the repairs if no concrete was found.<ref name="nyt19950914">{{cite news|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|author-link=Allan Kozinn|date=September 14, 1995|title=A Phantom Exposed: Concrete at Carnegie|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/14/us/a-phantom-exposed-concrete-at-carnegie.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=November 14, 2014|archive-date=November 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119062208/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/14/us/a-phantom-exposed-concrete-at-carnegie.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}</ref> Polshek Partners won the [[American Institute of Architects]]' Honor Award in 1988 for its renovation of the hall.<ref name="Arch 1992-03" />

==== 1990s and early 2000s ====
During the late 1980s, Carnegie Hall had begun collecting items for the opening of a museum in the under-construction Carnegie Hall Tower.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shepard|first=Richard F.|date=May 12, 1988|title=Carnegie Hall Marks a Milestone for a Cornerstone|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/12/arts/carnegie-hall-marks-a-milestone-for-a-cornerstone.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818224625/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/12/arts/carnegie-hall-marks-a-milestone-for-a-cornerstone.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="p280806961">{{cite news|last=Soble|first=Ronald L.|date=May 13, 1989|title=Carnegie Hall Seeks Mementos as 100th Birthday Approaches Musical, Cultural and Political History Taking Shape at Venerable N.Y. Site|page=14|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|id={{ProQuest|280806961}}}}</ref> The Rose Museum was founded in April 1991,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Koenenn|first=Joseph C.|date=April 23, 1991|title=History From the Pockets of Tchiakovsky|page=60|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83839111/history-from-the-pockets-of-tchiakovsky/|access-date=August 21, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821012930/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83839111/history-from-the-pockets-of-tchiakovsky/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Zakariasen|first=Bill|date=April 23, 1991|title=Carnegie halls out its history|page=31|newspaper=New York Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83839140/carnegie-halls-out-its-history/|access-date=August 21, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821012930/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83839140/carnegie-halls-out-its-history/|url-status=live}}</ref> with its own entrance at 154 West 57th Street.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|author-link=Allan Kozinn|date=February 8, 1992|title=Music Notes; Composers Orchestra Defies the Conventional|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/08/arts/music-notes-composers-orchestra-defies-the-conventional.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820003328/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/08/arts/music-notes-composers-orchestra-defies-the-conventional.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The East Room and Club Room (later renamed Rohatyn Room and Shorin Club Room, respectively<ref>{{cite web|date=April 3, 2020|title=Rent the Shorin Club Room and Rohatyn Room|url=https://www.carnegiehall.org/About/Rentals/Event-Spaces/Shorin-Club-Room-and-Rohatyn-Room|access-date=August 20, 2021|website=Carnegie Hall|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820004724/https://www.carnegiehall.org/About/Rentals/Event-Spaces/Shorin-Club-Room-and-Rohatyn-Room|url-status=live}}</ref>) were created the same year. Though the East and Club rooms were in Carnegie Hall Tower, they were connected to the original Carnegie Hall.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Deutsch|first=Claudia H.|date=October 11, 1992|title=Commercial Property: Carnegie Hall; What's Playing? Maybe a Rousing Business Meeting|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/11/realestate/commercial-property-carnegie-hall-what-s-playing-maybe-rousing-business-meeting.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820004703/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/11/realestate/commercial-property-carnegie-hall-what-s-playing-maybe-rousing-business-meeting.html|url-status=live}}</ref> This represented the first new space added to Carnegie Hall since the studios were added in the late 1890s.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Mangaliman|first=Jessie|date=November 21, 1987|title=Expanding Carnegie Hall|page=15|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83776361/expanding-carnegie-hall/|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820010635/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83776361/expanding-carnegie-hall/|url-status=live}}</ref> At the parquet level, Cafe Carnegie was also renovated.<ref name="Arch 1992-03" />

The stage of the main hall had begun to warp by the early 1990s, and officials disassembled the stage in 1995, where they discovered a slab of concrete.<ref name="Stern (2006) p. 732" /><ref name="nyt19950914" /> [[John L. Tishman]], president of [[Tishman Realty & Construction]], which had renovated the stage in 1986, alleged that the concrete was there before the renovation.<ref name="Stern (2006) p. 732" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|author-link=Allan Kozinn|date=September 20, 1995|title=Case of the Carnegie Concrete, Chapter II|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/20/arts/case-of-the-carnegie-concrete-chapter-ii.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820173058/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/20/arts/case-of-the-carnegie-concrete-chapter-ii.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The concrete was removed in mid-1995 while Carnegie Hall was closed for the summer;<ref>{{Cite news|last=Page|first=Tim|date=September 14, 1995|title=Carnegie Hall Hopes New Floor Is a Sound One|page=8|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83808803/carnegie-hall-hopes-new-floor-is-a/|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820173056/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83808803/carnegie-hall-hopes-new-floor-is-a/|url-status=live}}</ref> soon afterward, critics described a noticeable change in the acoustics.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Oestreich|first=James R.|author-link=James R. Oestreich|date=March 5, 1996|title=Assessing Carnegie Hall Without the Concrete|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/05/arts/assessing-carnegie-hall-without-the-concrete.html|access-date=August 20, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820173056/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/05/arts/assessing-carnegie-hall-without-the-concrete.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the basement, the Carnegie Hall Cinema operated separately from the rest of Carnegie Hall until 1997, when the hall's management closed the cinema, along with two shops on Seventh Avenue. In late 1998, Carnegie Hall announced that it would turn the basement recital hall into another performance venue, designed by Polshek Associates. The project was to cost $50 million; the high cost was attributed to the fact that the work would require excavations under the basement while concerts and other events were ongoing.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Blumenthal|first=Ralph|author-link=Ralph Blumenthal|date=December 14, 1998|title=Carnegie Hall Expanding, Using Underground Space|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/14/arts/carnegie-hall-expanding-using-underground-space.html|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819182525/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/14/arts/carnegie-hall-expanding-using-underground-space.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In recognition of a $10 million grant from Arthur and Judy Zankel, the new space was renamed after the Zankels in January 1999; the auditorium proper was named after Judith Arron, who donated $5 million.<ref name="nyt19990112" />  Construction took place without disrupting performances or the nearby subway tunnel.<ref name="AR 2005-01" /> Zankel Hall had been planned to open in early 2003, but the opening date was postponed due to the city's economic difficulties after the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001.<ref name="UPI 2003" /><ref name="The New York Times 2001" /> The excavations also raised the budget to $69 million.<ref name="The New York Times 2001">{{Cite news|date=November 1, 2001|title=Carnegie Delays Opening of Additional Hall|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/arts/carnegie-delays-opening-of-additional-hall.html|access-date=August 19, 2021|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819212820/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/arts/carnegie-delays-opening-of-additional-hall.html|url-status=live}}</ref>