Flatbush Pavilion
314 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11238
314 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11238
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This website has a page of photos of the Flatbush Pavilion. Click each thumbnail to expand it.
A 2005 marquee photo of the Flatbush Pavilion can be seen here.
Some tricksters/PR people for a new restaurant rearranged the letters on the marquee to read “revel in fish in non glaring semen from Havana.” Passed it by a few days ago; made me want to cry, and reminded me of the last days of the old Times Square, when titles of movies were rearranged into “poetry.”
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http://www.picpatrol.com/category.php?category=18
Now the word is the store will be an American Apparel. Wonderful.
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A photo of the marquee can be seen here:
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Thanx dailyheights
yes.
Is the marquis still up?
A link to some history and photos of the Flatbush Pavillion,Plaza/Bunny.
http://www.bijou-dream.com/
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They’re converting it into a pool!!!
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1930 gives a seating capacity of the Bunny Theatre as 450 and lists it as ‘closed’. By the 1941 edition it still has the same seating capacity, but has been re-named Plaza Theatre.
Was it attractive?
The ALSO KNOWN line at top should also read “THE BUNNY”
2005 is another bad year for classic theatres closing. It’s very sad.
I talked to an employee of the health club next door. She told me they bought the theater and are going to build a swimming pool in the space:
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A current real estate report lists this address as a two story store/office building built in 1913. I did a search from 312 to 350 Flatbush Ave and not one building is listed as a movie theater.
314 Flatbush Avenue, Crown Heights, New York 11238
Block & Lot #: 01057 – 0014
Building Class: Store Building, Two-Story Or Store/Office (K2)
School District: 13 map/schools
City Council District: 33
Police Precinct: 78 (Crime Statistics)
Political Contributions: search
BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS
Zoning R7A
Building Size (F x D): 131.25ft x 51.58ft
Lot Size (F x D): 131.25ft x 167.25ft
Building Height: –
Total Gross Area of Building:
Year Built: 1913
Historic District?: No
Corner Lot?: No
Has Garage?: No
Number of Floors: 2
Units: 0
FAR as built: 1.50
Allowable FAR: 4.00
And this listing should probably go back to Plaza, as it seems that was its name for most of its life.
Still closed, with Man on Fire and Van Helsing still on the marquee.
Any updates on this theatre?
Hello all…
I and my company would be very interested in this theater. Does anyone have contact information on the previous owners? We are interested in opening an Art House/digital distribution house.
Please contact me
Ralph Scott
thanks in advance
Between the Marboro UA/Regal Theater and now the Flatbush Pavillion theater it is just terrible that old Screen Gems like these theaters are going out of operation. I remember when the Elgin theater on 8th Avenue in Manhattan became the Performing Arts Space for the Joyce Theater Company. I went to the Elgin when I was a teenager and loved to watch all the Janus movies and 16mm and 35mm classic art pictures from Europe. The Pavillion should be re-opened somehow and it’s audience re-vified…..maybe by showing the “Night of the Living Dead” or a horror “Clone” movie….which has yet to appear on the horizon.
Does anybody a script for the first and foremost “Clone” Horror Movie?
Yehudah Rubenstein
Here’s a link to a brief piece running in today’s NY Times, recounting the recent closing of the Flatbush Pavilion –
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I was there on the last day of business, May 23 and saw Van Helsing. The place was in pretty much good shape, the seats fairly new, the carpets clean, the staff was pleasent, the sound and pictue quality great. It’s a shame this theatre had to close, now all we have is the Park Slope Pavillion (formerly the Sanders).
Got inside this theater today and everything has been removed. All the seats. The projection and the sound equipment. The ticket machine. The screens remained intact and the concession stand—albeit empty—stood akimbo to its usual postion. Oddly the lights in the screening rooms were still on.
The marquee still advertises “Van Helsing” and “Man on Fire” so it must have been a quick decision to shutter it. With its closing Flatbush Avenue which once had nearly 20 theater buildings from end to end, no has only the Kings Plaza Sixplex.
Was at the pavillion park slope with the family yeasterday. While there I spoke with the manager who told me that the Flastbush pavillion closed due to lack of patronage. The theater did okay on weekends but during the week it was a ghost town. It just couldn’t keep up the rent and taxes. So don’t expect the oldest operating movie theater in NYC to come back to life soon, if at all.