Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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Peter .K “rock” of the New Testament ….um ok
New Coliseum /Coliseum ;–)
is at 4260-4261 Broadway, New York, NY
click here for more info!
—–> /theaters/526/
The New Coliseum is listed here as the Coliseum and situated in Washington Heights in uptown New York City.
Where is the New Coliseum Theatre, mike hoyts ?
So I’m a “rock man”, am I ? “Peter” means “rock”; the New Testament says so.
Peter.K thank you,
you rock man!
I know this is about Ridgewood and I am going off the subject but anyone visiting NYC or lives in the NYC area please see a movie at the Ridgewood Theatre but also check out New Coliseum Theatre in NYC my good friend owns the cineplex which he closed in 2002(also had and since closed the NOVA) has now reopened the New Coliseum number is 212-740-1545 and to be fare since this is Ridgewood Theatres page so the
Ridgewood’s number is 718-821-5993.
Much like the Ridgewood’s owner who also own Jackson Triplex and recently the closed Plaza 1 & 2 Corona it is so hard for these independent operators the keep a theatre going with so many big chains and newer multiplex to go up against, I love New York City but it is truly the worst market for a theater operator with the Loews and UATC/REGAL CINEMAS/Clearview Cinemas etc. around.
All I am saying is please remember the little guys.
Thanks,
Love to All ;–) NYC
I love you too, mike hoyts ! Keep the faith, and keep telling it like it is ! There is indeed almost infinitely more to NYC than crime, no matter how much the media may misrepresent it.
This web page is proof positive that Ridgewood, Queens, NYC, NY, is and was, and (hopefully) shall always be, a community !
Monica Ridgewood Theatre has Catwoman,
are you gonna see it?
Today’s times 1:30 | 3:40 | 6:00 | 8:20 | 10:50
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!
Man all these great memories being told on this website is great man, the neighbors, the sense of pride man itâ€\s magical.
Monica H man even made a website for
everyone to enjoy to show her love not just for Ridgewood Theatre and all of us on this web page not even for New York man but the world, she is just like all of you are taking this global for the world to see and that is the most far out thing you can do man.
The things people say about New Yorkers and you see on T.V. like NYPD 24/7 is not the real New York this little website page about an old 1913 theatre has proven that man, there is so much more to New York than Broadway, hookers, and just the crime man. New York has real people like all of you who post your memories; you guys are the real New York that shows like NYPD/27 donâ€\t show us. The only time they show New York is when a crime is going on, which happens everyday in almost every city with more than 2,000 people living there. And this is something I donâ€\t like to talk about but 9/11, see the “the media†only wants to show New York crimes or in pain because that New Yorkâ€\s stigma, but you guys on this page you are the real New York and is what New York is all about and we love you guys, because no matter what anyone say or shows us about New York is wonâ€\t matter because….“New York is the Best Place in the WORLDâ€!!
Monica H
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GOD BLESS NEW YORK &
Father Kelly
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Mock, you can see the bright yellow sign for Selinger’s Furniture in the distance, in this image of the Wyckoff Avenue el station, between the right (near) end of the train, and the green control tower :
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6398
O.K., Mock, we lived on the same block (Cornelia between Cypress and Wyckoff) between 1970 and 1991. You wrote your house was “a couple of doors down” from the house in the middle with the big floral tree.
Was your house closer to Wyckoff Avenue than that “house in the middle” ? I always liked those two-family gray brick houses between that more modern house in the middle, and the synagogue at 1616 Cornelia, near Wyckoff Avenue, because of the wide sidewalk and old large trees in front of them. They still seems luxurious to me.
I knew the Greek hot dog guy. He kept his wagon in a garage on Cornelia between the synagogue and Wyckoff Avenue. He’s the brother of Teddy, the Greek guy who owned the Bank Restaurant, now managed by his sons, on Seneca between Catalpa and Myrtle next door to Rudy’s Konditorei (bake shop). I’ve seen the Greek hot dog guy at Myrtle and Seneca.
The Ridgewood Theater had a Bruce Lee double bill in early November 1980 : “Fists of Fury” with “Chinese Connection”. I saw part of it the night of Saturday November 8, 1980.
Just registered because I read Peter K.’s comments. My parents bought a house in 1970 on Cornelia St. between Cypress Avenue and Wyckoff Avenue, a couple of doors down from the house in the middle that used to have this big, floral tree (what was it, cherry blossoms or something? Fragrant, pretty tiny pink petals). Did you know the Greek hot dog guy in front of the bank on Myrtle Avenue, off Cornelia St.? We used to get hot dogs from him for $0.35 each in the 1970s. He now has a spot further Myrtle Avenue and Seneca Avenue. We went to P.S. 81Q, on 559 Cypress Avenue and Menahan St. We didn’t go to parochial school.
Ridgewood theatre: I remember dropping my ice cream from my cone walking by it one afternoon in the 1970s; I almost cried. Remembered watching a Bruce Lee double matinee there. It was $3.50 then, I think? Haven’t been to the theatre in about 15 years because of the hygiene and rowdiness, as well as the selection of the movies (action and related; not into that stuff anymore).
Madison St. & Myrtle Ave. furniture store: Has been a VG Nichols for a long time, but from roughly the 1970s until the late 1980s, it was a “Selingers” furniture store. The Selingers lived in Huntington, LI; I remember vaguely their son, Ross, who went to Pratt Institute. I think he’s a real estate broker, or something now. On the other corner on the same intersection, there used to be this little newspaper stand there, an older, slightly built fellow was there all the time. Royal Pizza across the street: I remember their pizza, have only had two slices there in the last 25+ years, mostly within the last two years. I don’t go by there, anymore. I remember the skinny, spindly son (I think he’s my age, maybe slightly younger?). He grew up, looks much taller and more muscular, but still a lean build.
I’m just amazed at the number of people from Ridgewood and the memories; I guess my age was as a kid there in the 1970s to early 1980s.
DABOC :
Jack McCabe, SFP Class of 1974 (the last class to graduate from the old building on 186 North 6th Street in Williamsburg) was and is a (Grateful) Dead Head and amateur musician, not an athlete, except maybe in intramurals. He and some other members of his class agreed among themselves what parts of the old building each would take as a souvenir upon graduation. I’m not sure who got the sign over the front door.
“For the first time since mid to late 70’s I probably will be going back to Ridgewood this Saturday!”
Here’s hoping the 25 year absence doesn’t cause you moderate to severe culture shock !
“Now after hearing about Father Kelly, maybe I will skip seeing St. Brigid’s again.”
On the contrary, if you’re going to visit your old block, why not stop by St. Brigid Rectory and offer your condolences and get-well wishes for Father Kelly ?
“On for Old St. Francis” ……on red and blue oh my gosh how we can remember things from a song!
Was Jack McCabe a basketball player? I think I remember him from my cheering days.
For the first time since mid to late 70’s I probably will be going back to Ridgewood this Saturday!
I have to go to Woodhaven so I thought I’d drive through Ridgewood first and see my old house on Madison Street around the corner from the Ridgewood Theatre.
Now after hearing about Father Kelly, maybe I will skip seeing St. Brigid’s again.
For those present and former Ridgewood residents who wish to express their condolences and get-well wishes to Father Kelly, the address is :
St. Brigid Rectory
409 Linden Street
Brooklyn, New York 11237
To return to the grim present for a moment, off topic, Monsignor James Kelly was mugged in his St. Brigid’s rectory bedroom earlier today for $ 60 cash. The rectory is on Linden Street between Wyckoff and Cypress Avenues. 1010 WINS and CBS and ABC TV news are calling it “Bushwick”, but it is really lower Ridgewood or Wyckoff Heights. Channel 7 Eyewitness News is describing the mugging as “brutal”. Father Kelly fought back, forcing his attackers to flee through the same window that they entered through. He says he forgives his attackers. He may have facial fractures and has reported difficulty seeing with his right eye. Possibly more on TV news today and tonight at 6, 10 and 11 p.m. This happened three blocks from the former RKo Madison Theater and five blocks from the Ridgewood Theater.
The Ridgewood Theatre is still open and showing movies after 91 years, you just don’t see that much anymore. That is why I love NEW YORK, however NYC “areas” have lost some classic theatres of late one is the NOVA CINEMAS, which I loved when I visited NYC. There is just something magical about these old theatres with the big sidewalk marquees and it is just a feel they give. The big multiplex cinema just doesn’t have that. The “Multiplex Cinemas†chain around the NYC area are owned by National Amusements which owns the “Showcase
Cinemas"
chain
they
all
look just same the ones in OH, PA, MA and elsewhere they have no identity and that is what lacks in today’s Cineplex world.
Oh, and to add, I was thinking about it some more, The Ridgewood Theater used to be surrounded by other theaters, I can’t think of one nearby right now, and that is going into Queens or Brooklyn around it!
The Atlas terminal is quite a way away from the Ridgewood though. It’s possible that it would be damaged by it, but then again, The Ridgewood is the only theater for the Brooklyn area around there too. The Ridgewood’s location could save it further.
If that Atlas Terminal multiplex is built, I suspect that it will bring the closing of the Ridgewood Theatre, which is now 91 years old and has only survived due to lack of nearby competition.
Today I had a chance to see the main level of the Ridgewood theater for the first time in 20 years!! (The last few movies I had seem there, also over 15 years ago, always seemed to be in one of the balcony theaters).
Anyway, I didn’t see a movie there, but got a great peak inside. I was in Ridgewood today, and had some time to kill, so decided to take a walk over to the Madison Theater to check out what can still be seen now that it’s the Liberty Dept store (see the Madison’s section for those comments). On my way back, I decided to take Madison Street around the back of the Ridgewood theater. Workers were repairing one of the emergency exit doors, and the doors were wide open to the left (if facing front) orchestra theaters.
I peaked in, and so many memories came rushing back. I immediately envisioned in my head sitting in the theater when it was still one theater, and looking at that exact same exit door from the indside.
A column still stands adjacent to the door (one of two columns that were on either side of the original large theater’s stage when it was one theater).
The theater looked to be in pretty decent shape inside. It appeared clean, and well cared for. Of course it was pretty dark inside, and I couldn’t stay too long as the workers were on their way back to finish repairing the doors. But it was sure nice to see the inside again.
Rumor has it that an 8-plex is going to be part of the Atlas Terminal development project in Glendale on Cooper Avenue between Woodhaven Boulevard and 80th Street and oposite the southern end of St. Johns Cemetery. At the moment, I do not know who the operator will be.
No news is good news, or so they say. But there’s no indication of any multiplex opening in the Queens Center, which is being expanded to about twice its original size. Many of the new stores have already opened, and the Center now seems concentrated on re-building the portion on Queens Boulevard that was most recently occupied by J.C. Penney, which is now in much larger quarters in the new addition…When the Elmwood was on the verge of closing, there was community sentiment that it should be replaced by a new theatre, but the politicos involved were apparently not able to raise the necessary support. The nearest theatre now is probably the Jackson Triplex, which shows all Hollywood movies with Spanish subtitles. Curiously, one of its three current films, “Maria, Full of Grace,” is being presented in Spanish with English subtitles!
Thanks for the update, Warren. Yet another old movie theater becomes a church ! Any news on a brand new multiplex cinema opening in Queens Center on the opposite side of Queens Blvd. ?
The Elmwood is still with us, but no longer used as a movie theatre. It’s now affiliated with the Rock Community Church. Attempts are being made to restore some of the original interior. But the exterior is little changed from the way it looked in 1946, when the former Queensboro re-opened as the Elmwood. The neon roof sign is still in place, and so is the marquee, though the latter is apparently in the process of being removed.
Rich Dittus, I e-mailed you privately at your Ave Maria U. e-dress. Hope to get a reply from you soon.
To keep this on topic, there was also the Chopin Theater, at Manhattan and Greenpoint Avenues, where Joe Kuceluk and I saw “Cry Of The Wild” and “Bigfoot” in January 1974, and where our SFP classmate, Bob Dunas, saw “The Exorcist”, later in 1974.
One of the last few times we met face to face, Labor Day 1985, was by the LIRR tracks at 68th Street and Otto Road. I was walking home from a cinema in Lefrak City, Queens, where I had just seen “Godzilla 1985” with Raymond Burr. That cinema is no longer there. You expressed mild amusement that “Godzilla” had been remade. As I recall, we met that way several times, while I was walking back to my Ridgewood home after having seen a film elsewhere in Queens, anywhere from 4 to 7 miles away, from Jackson Heights to Kew Gardens, mostly Forest Hills and Elmhurst, in between. Once, we sat on your front stoop and talked with Kathy and your kids. I remember Kathy mentioning one of your kids putting pennies on her pregnant belly. I also recall walking around your block with you a few times at night in summer 1987 after seeing “Robocop” at the Elmwood (also no longer there), talking about meeting at a Pat Costa concert at St. Adalbert’s in Elmhurst, yet that fell through somehow.
Peter Koch
Wowww… Thanks to my brother Bob Dittus, I have learned about this website and the SFP / St. Paul’s reunion. January 16th – 19th, 1975 was the St. Paul’s weekend that many of us attended – including Joe Kuceluk (leader). John Kiely, Kathy Kennedy, and I were at the same discussion table. Peter Koch, weren’t you at this weekend too? Wasn’t there a moment when we sang “On for Old St. Francis?”
Mike Daley, where is he living in Florida? Kathy (Kennedy) and I are now married for 25 years and have 6 children ranging from 21 to 8 years old. I am the Director of Admissions at Ave Maria University. You can contact me at
Rich D, remember Brother Thomas, our tennis coach and matches where you would drive us in a station wagon to Highland Park? Whatever happened to John Nowak?
My sister, Susan, graduated St. Nicholas High School in 1975. As mentioned, many of us from SFP went there for driver’s ed, dances, and participated in the school plays.
Pete Koch, whatever happened to the old gang on 37 ½ Dobbin Street – including Tony Yanni, Joe Kuceluk, and Jack McCabe?
My brother tells me things are really changing back in Greenpoint / Williamsburg – not quite the same old neighborhood.
I lived in Glendale (68th Street) from 1982 to 1992 and walked home via Mrytle Avenue from the LL train station. I can’t remember the old movie houses – except for the Rainbow on Graham Avenue in Williamsburg, the Grand, the Graham, the Arion in Middle Village where they had movies for $1.50 or $2 before it closed in the 1980s. Remember Eddie’s Sweet Shop near a theatre in Forest Hills – went to see ET there on February 25, 1983.
Rich Dittus