Loew's Paradise Theatre
2413 Grand Concourse,
Bronx,
NY
10468
2413 Grand Concourse,
Bronx,
NY
10468
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This website has some photos of the Paradise Theater. Boxing matches are also held at this theater. At least one of the photos shows the location of the ring. The last match that I can find was held on January 31, 2008. Punchin' at the Paradise.
Sorry! The number that I phoned is the one listed on this page. I just tried phoning the corrected number (at 9:10 AM EST), but it just rang and rang until I finally hung up. I guess they’re not open yet, though one would think they’d have an answering machine to cover that…The official link in the CT introduction doesn’t seem to work. I could only get to the website through a link that I found at Google: www.theparadisetheater.com/en/defaulten.htm
The phone # for The Paradise on the top of this page is INCORRECT it should be changed to 718-563-2222
I just called @ 12:35AM and the number was working.Someone DID answer “Utopia’s Paradise Theatre” they were security but said to call the box office in the morning.
I will check it out and see what info I can come up with.
and now their website seems to be down….
Something has apparently gone wrong at the Paradise. No events have been held since December, and there’s nothing scheduled for the future. I’m not even sure if the events listed for December were actually held. Today, when I tried phoning the number listed at the Paradise’s website, I got only a recorded message: “Sorry. The number you have reached is not in service at this time. No further information is available.”
The Paradise has been keeping a very low profile since it re-opened in 2005. According to its website, only two “events” took place last December. I wonder if the owners are having financial problems?
My uncle was Jerry DeRosa. He managed the Paradise Theatre from about 1930 until his death in 1945. In fact, he actually died of a heart attack in the theatre. His brother was my uncle Eugene DeRosa, who as an architect, along with my father Felix DeRosa, designed a number of famous theatres in New York in the 1920s. If anyone has any information these three DeRosa brothers, I would be very appreciative. I have so little information myself. NOTE: Jerry was born in 1891 in the region of Calabria, Italy. He arrived at Ellis Island in 1897.
Some recent interior photos can be seen here.
This is a recent photo of the Paradise Theater.
The video you have from the library is the film that is being shown at the Portage next Saturday. It was written and directed by Steve Samtur of Back in The Bronx. It is not the same video as the YouTube clip.
Yeah…the video that i’m holding is at View link I don’t know if it’s the same thing. Its on VHS.
Thanks for sharing. That clip is actually from an installment in a long running PBS series featuring walking tours through various parts of NYC. Previous episodes include “A Walk down 42nd Street” and “A Walk Up Broadway,” each featuring host David Hartman and NY historian Barry Lewis. It’s an excellent series with lots of great footage, photos and historical anecdotes.
There IS a documentary film about the Paradise Theater. A clip of the film is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmOI95U40nA I’m borrowing a copy on video from the New York Public Library (I don’t know if it’s the same thing as the YouTube video I showed you…but it might be). The Paradise was one of the grand movie palaces of it’s day. I wish they would show movies again!
Some recent photos of the Paradise Theater can be seen here. Click each photo to expand it.
The 2003 documentary Loew’s Paradise Theatre, narrated by WPIX anchor Marvin Scott, will be shown on Saturday, September 15 at the Portage Theater as part of the “Preserving Palaces” documentary film festival, along with The Wizard of Austin Boulevard and Memoirs of a Movie Palace. The festival begins on Friday, September 14 with Uptown: Portrait of a Palace and Preserve Me a Seat (chronicling efforts to save the Indian Hills in Omaha, Gayety/Publix in Boston, DuPage in Lombard, and Villa in Salt Lake City). A theatre preservation discussion panel will follow the films on Saturday night. For complete information, visit www.portagetheater.org.
MOAN! MOAN! MOAN! BOO! HOO! HOO! If you really want to find the website, just Google: Utopia’s Paradise. That’s it. It took me less than 30 seconds.
After all the talk, we get a poster who moans about tickets costing more than $50. How shocking! A live show costing more than $50 —– for the good seats! Alert the media! GROW UP! That’s what shows cost these days. I’ll say it again: Sign off and go buy a ticket. Learn to live some sort of life besides the internet.
I have enjoyed many of the posts, and thank all the positive responses about the Bronx. This years Bronx Ball was held at the Paradise, so you might like to check out the video I posted. Some shots of the interior (www.youtube.com/dwiproductions)
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Producer/Host
Bronx Magazine
I was finally able to get into the website through this link found with the help of Google. The current owners have re-written history with the opening sentence in the section about the theatre’s past: “The Paradise Theater was opened in 1929 as the nation’s premier movie house and vaudeville stage.” Give us a break!
www.theparadisetheater.com/en/defaulten.htm
Since I posted the link to that article on 7/18/07, I haven’t been able to connect to the Paradise website. The name Paradise appears on the screen, but nothing after that. I wanted to check the Paradise’s upcoming schedule, but perhaps the theatre has closed for the summer?
Perhaps english did not realize the dateline was July 17, 2007.
I wasn’t trying to “intimate” anything. When I read the article, I never connected it with the Bronx of today, and I don’t think that the NYT writer intended to either. It’s simply a nostalgia piece. If it irks you, send an e-mail of complaint to The New York Times.
Warren, Warren, WARREN, what are you trying to intimate by referring to something that happend over twenty years ago. The Bronx is Safer than a lot of places in Surburbia. Do you agree?
Loew’s Paradise is prominently mentioned in this article from yesterday’s New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/nyregion/17ink.html?
This is why theaters have insurance! These kinds of claims happen all the time, but are not usually in the press unless someone is connected or very very whiney.