BOYNEXTDOOR Knock On Vol.2: Dates, Tickets & Venue (New York)

A Thursday night under the Garden

Madison Square Garden is two venues stacked together. The famous round arena sits on top. The Infosys Theater sits underneath it, a single wide room of steeply tiered seats. On November 5, 2026, that lower room is where BOYNEXTDOOR brings its Knock On Vol.2 tour to New York.

The date falls on a Thursday. Your walk to the doors therefore runs straight into the evening commute through Penn Station, the busiest rail hub in North America, which is directly below your feet. Lightsticks and fan banners end up threading through crowds of commuters with laptop bags heading for trains to Long Island and New Jersey.

Who’s knocking: BOYNEXTDOOR and the Knock On series

BOYNEXTDOOR is a six-member K-pop group from KOZ Entertainment, a label under HYBE. The members are Sungho, Riwoo, Jaehyun, Taesan, Leehan and Woonhak, and they debuted in 2023. Their fandom is called ONEDOOR.

The group’s name has a concept behind it: the relatable boys who live next door. The tour title “Knock On” plays on that idea. Vol.2 follows the group’s first headline tour, Knock On Vol.1. The members write and produce a good share of their own material, which is why the setlist usually leans heavily on the group’s own catalogue.

Songs fans tend to know by heart include:

• “But Sometimes” and “Serenade”, from the debut era
• “One and Only”
• “Earth, Wind & Fire”
• “Nice Guy”

The specific setlist for this show is not part of what we know, so treat that list as background rather than a promise.

Getting to the Infosys Theater

The theater fills the block between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, from West 31st to West 33rd Street. The Eighth Avenue side is where concertgoers usually gather. Your subway choice decides how far you walk:

• A, C, E to 34 St–Penn Station (Eighth Avenue): the closest stop to the theater side.
• 1, 2, 3 to 34 St–Penn Station (Seventh Avenue): one long block east.
• B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W to 34 St–Herald Square: about a five-minute walk west along 33rd or 34th.
• PATH from New Jersey to 33rd Street, next to Herald Square.
• LIRR, NJ Transit and Amtrak all stop at Penn Station underneath the building.

Moynihan Train Hall stands across Eighth Avenue inside the old Farley Post Office building. It has a skylit concourse and a food hall, and you can sit indoors there without a ticket. That makes it a common waiting spot for groups splitting up before the show or meeting up again afterwards.

Koreatown, three blocks east

New York’s Koreatown is unusually close to this venue. It centres on West 32nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, signposted as Korea Way. From the theater you walk east along 32nd past Herald Square and reach it in under ten minutes.

The block is dense and vertical. Barbecue restaurants with grills built into the tables share buildings with bakeries, karaoke rooms on the upper floors and late-opening cafés. K-pop concert nights usually show up here first: groups in matching merch fill the barbecue tables before the show, and the noraebang rooms fill up after it.

On a weeknight, the dinner rush on 32nd Street lands at the same time as the pre-show crowd. Fans who want a sit-down meal tend to eat in the late afternoon. Others grab something quick, like kimbap or a pastry, and eat walking back west.

Lightsticks, chants and the merch line

A K-pop show at the Garden has its own rhythm, and the regulars follow it closely.

The merch line forms first. Official tour merchandise sells at stands inside the venue, and at K-pop shows the line usually builds hours before doors. Lightsticks, photo cards and tour shirts tend to run low in popular sizes. Many fans treat the merch run and the concert as two separate trips on the same day.

Bring the official lightstick if you have one. At most K-pop concerts, official lightsticks pair with the venue system over Bluetooth. The production can then change the whole room’s colour during the show. Fans usually pair theirs at their seat when the instructions appear on screen.

Learn the fan chants. ONEDOOR chant the members’ names and set lines during the songs, and the group’s official channels usually post chant guides for its releases. Knowing even the opening chant of a song like “But Sometimes” changes how the night feels.

Freebies change hands outside. Before doors, fans along the avenue often hand out small fan-made gifts, such as stickers, printed photo cards and slogans, as a goodwill gesture. Taking one is fine. Bringing a few of your own to swap is how many people make friends in the line.

Plan to pay by card. Madison Square Garden venues run cashless, so food, drink and merch are paid by card or phone.

Tickets, seats and the room

Madison Square Garden venues normally sell tickets through Ticketmaster. That is where most fans look first, and where resale through the official channel happens too. The prices are shown there. This guide doesn’t list prices because none were given to us.

The Infosys Theater holds a few thousand people, a fraction of the arena upstairs. The seating rakes steeply away from the stage, and that steepness is what keeps rear sightlines usable. For a six-member group with lots of choreography, the upper rows show the full formations clearly. The front sections are where you go for faces.

MSG’s venue rules apply to the theater as well, including its strict limits on bag size. The full list is on msg.com. Fans carrying large banners or bulky gift bags for friends often leave them at a hotel or with a non-attending friend at Moynihan Train Hall.

After the encore

When the house lights come up, several thousand people pour out onto Eighth Avenue at the same moment. The A, C, E platforms at 34th Street get crowded first. Many fans walk the extra few minutes to Herald Square instead, where several more lines leave from one station.

Early November nights in New York are cool and often damp, and the line outside sits next to open avenue. Most people in the merch queue wear a layer they can stuff under their seat later.

Out-of-town fans often stay near Penn Station or in the hotels around Herald Square and Koreatown. That way the trip back is a walk, not a late train. Penn Station’s commuter lines run well into the night for anyone heading home to Long Island or New Jersey.