Pavilion Theatre
188 Prospect Park West,
Park Slope,
Brooklyn,
NY
11215
188 Prospect Park West,
Park Slope,
Brooklyn,
NY
11215
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Does anyone know how the theatre is layed out. Which screens are downstairs and which are upstairs.
Did they ever put a elevator in the complex.
When I was last their in 1996, screens 1,2, 6 and 7 were on the main level and 3,4 and 5 were upstairs. When was the two added screens added to.
I remember passing this place in about 1989 and thinking that it would probably never be used as a theatre again.
How amazing to learn that it not only still stands but has been successfully rehabbed and reopened!
If the name on the marquee reads The Pavilion, then why not list it on CT under that name? Also, how about we update the seating to 1108 seats. Thats the amount of seats given for a nine screen theater at this address.
The New York Post – online edition, lists it as ‘The Pavilion’
The Big Screen Cinema Guide (online), lists it as ‘Access Digital Theatres-Pavilion Cinema’
Is this now really called the Pavilion Digital Showcase Theatre? I examined advertising and “movie clock” listings in yesterday’s newspapers and it was always just The Pavilion. And photos taken by Ken Roe in May/June of this year also show only The Pavilion in the neon lettering on the marquee. Also, this seems to be one of the rare theatres that actually has “The” as part of its name.
Some photographs I took of the Pavilion Theatre in May/June 2006:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/214949396/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/214950137/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/214950935/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/214952153/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/214956030/
NYC issued a c/o to a New building at this address in August of 1928. On that date there was a 1516 seat motion picture theater located here. The owner was The 15th Street Amusement Co. The architects were Harrison G. Wiseman with Edward Kleinert as associate architect. There is a second associate architect whose name begins with an “M” and looks like Magrueson. Spelling could be wrong.
As a nine screen theater, NYC gives the seating as of 2004 as follows:
Theater#1-255
Theater#2-96
Theater#3-82
Theater#4-56
Theater#5-202
Theater#6-122
Theater#7-90
Theater#8-93
Theater#9-112
Here is a recent 2006 photo of the Pavilion.
dOES ANYONE KNOW THE CAPACITY HOW DID THEY MAKE A NINETH SCREEN
I live ten or fifteen minutes from this theater, and a friend tells me it may be closing. Anybody else know anything about this ?
This is a night photo of the Pavilion Theater.
This is an article about the Pavilion Theater going digital.
Is there a listing for the Pavilion Brooklyn Heights?
Today’s New York Post reports The Pavilion will become the city’s first theatre with all-digital capability this Spring.
The architect of the 1928 built Sanders was Edward Kleinert. It originally had a seating capacity of 1,501. The original architectural style of the interior was Middle Eastern and it had a Wurlitzer 2 Manual/7 Rank (Opus 1816) theatre pipe organ installed, which was removed many years ago.
It is certainly nice to have one of our neighborhood theatres still standing, but I’ve always thought the chop job on this building was cramped and ridiculous – eight screens where there was one. Anyhow, nice to have it, but it freaks me out in a fire-trap sort of way. There’s really very little left of the interior. I think most of us can usually figure out “what was where” in these old theatres, but this place is tough. Every inch of this building is being used as something. I go here now and then, but more often I find myself at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas – chopped up, but not as severe and they really managed to retain a great deal of the building’s integrity.
This theatre dates back to 1908, when the brothers Harry & Rudolph Sanders opened a nickelodeon called the Marathon on the site. Rapidly expanding into adjacent storefronts, the Marathon developed into a theatre of 500 seats. In 1928, the owners replaced the Marathon with the entirely new and self-named Sanders Theatre, tripling their seating capacity to 1,581. When the Sanders finally closed in 1978, plans to convert it into retail or residential space never bore fruit. In 1993, exhibitor Norman Adie and three local investors bought the property. In 1996, they re-opened it as the Pavilion Theatre with three screens. Five more have been added since.
The spelling for this theatre is Pavilion, not Pavillion.
A vintage view of the former Sanders Theatre can be seen here.
this theatre is beautiful as far as modern multiplexes go. It’s very clean and intimate when it first opened I saw “Seige” in theatre 1 which was big and (I know i’m a bit obsessive with this) but the curtains even closed which no longer exists in Brooklyn I can vouch for that, but that quickly changed when they added 2 more cinemas in the complex going from 6 to 8 screens it still was a large cinema with the conversion a modern multiplex nicely done.
This theater building stands on the site of the former one-story Sanders Theater, which was razed in the 1920’s to construct this much more opulent movie house. Also, after the Sanders closed in the late ‘70s, it remained vacant for over 20 years, as various plans were hatched as to what to do with it. They ranged from turning it into a co-op to splitting the building into two halves. The bottom portion being a hardware store, and the balcony turned into a twin cinema. RKO Century looked at it during this “closed” period and thought it not wide enough to convert into a quad so they scrapped their plans. Yet the new owners have had little problem transforming the building into a very popular eightplex.