The Blind Armory

Is the Park Avenue Armory the only reserved-seating theater in the world where, when you purchase a ticket online, the website doesn’t offer a seating chart that displays the available seats??

There’s a static picture of the seating chart, but it doesn’t show the current inventory, only the pricing zone of each seating section. You then choose which zone you want to be in and how many seats you’re looking for, and the system randomly feeds back one possible option.

You can repeat this process to get some sense of what’s available, but dear lord so time consuming. Why make the bedrock of any artistic enterprise — buying! — so difficult on the customer?

Every other reserved theater in NYC (and beyond?) has a live seating chart readily accessible online, so what’s the issue here?

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