Trylon Theater
98-81 Queens Boulevard,
Rego Park,
NY
11374
98-81 Queens Boulevard,
Rego Park,
NY
11374
18 people
favorited this theater
Showing 51 - 75 of 207 comments
You’re welcome, Lost Memory.
Good explanation, Life’s too short. Thanks.
Some Jewish people are very, very defensive. It probably has something to do with persecution they have received at various times in history. In the modern-day United States they most likely don’t have much to worry about. But it takes a long time for human beings of any type to change behavior. I definitely wouldn’t take the actions of this young man personally.
I think that’s Uzbekistan, Lost Memory.
Nor I. Good reading you again, Ed Solero. Thanks for stopping by the Trylon and taking photos.
I happened to be driving by the former Trylon this soggy morning and snapped the following low res – and rather sad -image of what has become of the old theater facade since the current owners completed their renovations:
OHR NATAN
I snapped a couple of other close up images, but my photobucket acct isn’t letting me complete their uploads at the moment. I’ll get back here once I’ve been able to fix that problem.
Funny… while I stopped to grab the photos (which took me all of 3 or 4 minutes) a young man wearing a yamulka and carrying a back-pack snapped a photo of my license plate and another of me standing in the street as I was finishing up. I gave him a nice wave “hello.” He never said a word to me. Just shook his head as if in disgust and walked away. I wonder what was going through his mind…. that I was plotting some sort of nefarious scheme against the center?
I’m surprised this theatre isn’t listed as the Loews Trylon. I will remember it as such from my time at Loews. This tiny gem being managed by the incomperable Gene Thompson and Loews legend Julia Albanese of Loews Gates fame.
Those are some large dwellings behind the Trylon. Are they anything significant?
My copy of this Marquee (2nd Q 2007)arrived in today’s mail.
That issue was mailed from Elmhurst on 10/20. Bulk mail might be cheap, but it’s “expensive” in other ways. Drop me a line at and we can talk more about this.
Which gives me a chance to reiterate that if anyone else is interested in a copy of the latest Marquee magazine, just go to www.historictheatres.org and order one for yourself! The issue also includes a great article on projection methods over the years and a piece on the home museum of the late Jim Foley of Syracuse NY. (Shameless THS promotion – yeah i know!)
: )
It depends on how much you care about the Trylon, but, it’s academic, now that you have your answer.
I think what you are saying is that I should have spent the time sifting through all of this for the sake of the Trylon, an assertion I disagree with. It’s a confusing stew of posts reporting that demolition had begun, but that they fight was not over. And no, the post above did not answer my question.
At any rate, the whole reason I got back on here was to mention that a great article on the Trylon appeared in the latest Marquee magazine from THS. The Marquee article answered my question very quickly:
The project was finished, the Jewish center is now open, most of the interior was destroyed, and the “Friends” group is still trying to get the exterior landmarked.
“Life’s too short” to spend half an hour reading this page, for the Trylon’s sake ? I think you’re in too much of a hurry.
Hope you got your answer.
That post is from May 3, 2006 if you want to look up the whole post.
THIS IS EXCEPTED FROM A PREVIOUS POST BY NATIVE FOREST HILLER:
… CM Katz’s flip-flop of decisions is particularly disturbing in the Trylon case, since she opposed landmarking, then publicly stated her support, and then said she never felt it was suitable. She made no effort to encourage the LPC to calendar it. LPC won’t act without strong political support.She has the power, since she’s the Chair of Land Use. How can an elected official choose to suit her own interests, and mislead her constituents rather than serve them?
The Committee To Save The Trylon Theater & the community communicated. It was Melinda Katz who failed (to meet after promising, respond to letters, etc)! The effort isn’t over. Will her lack of intervention in this scenario be an obstacle in other neighborhood preservation efforts? Let’s continue to bond together for the benefit of the community, and not let this happen. “Power to the people!!!!!” ……
HOPE THIS SHEDS SOME LIGHT. YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO SEE WHAT IT’S SHINING ON, BUT THIS IS THE SAD TRUTH.
It would take at least half an hour, for God’s sake. I started reading it and didn’t find my answer. I thought one of you people in the know might write a couple of sentences to fill me in. Instead you wrote a couple of sentences giving me attitude.
That’s pretty weak.
My thoughts exactly PKoch – let her constituents fill in those blanks! Not for me to say. :X Ditto on the current status.
Mikeoaklandpark, rather than confuse you further, I suggest you read all of this theater’s page and, if that does not answer your question, I leave it to “NativeForestHiller” to do so.
Whi is Melinda Katz and what does she have to do with this theatre?
I don’t have a clear idea of what happened here. Did they finish converting the theatre into another use, or is it still sitting there?
All too true !
See? No matter how bad, there is always something worse! : D
Better than Roseanne Barr grabbing her crotch and spitting on the ground !
Hmmm…. yes. Isn’t it ironic…. : (