Coliseum Cinemas
4260-4261 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10033
4260-4261 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10033
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Sorry to have to post this here but there’s no general info area on this website (if there is, someone please tell me!)…
Anyway…There is another theater on Broadway around (I’m guessing here…) 165th Street or so. It’s on the southbound side of Broadway in the 160’s or so. It looks like the auditorium ran parallel to Broadway. It’s no longer a theater.
Can anyone tell me what it might be so I can look it up on here?
Thanks…
When was the orchestra and its accompanying lobby separated from the balcony portion of the Coliseum?
Had they kept the orchestra they could have made this a real multi-plex.
It was possible to do this because there was always a seperate entrance for the balcony on 181st. At one time there was a small hole in the floor of one of the balcony theatres and you could see the store below it.
The only theatre I was ever in where the orchestra no longer existed was a dollor house in Scranton Pa. I dont recall the name or if it still exists. It may have been called The Strand.
When this theatre was first twinned. The Orchestra and Balcony were seperate theaters. When the Orchestra was closed and turned into retail space the bacony was twinned and later made into a quad.
Until Garth came to town there were no major theater renovations in nyc theaters all chains were milking the public..This is when the nyc theater boom began!
Even though I was never a big Cineplex Odeon ‘fan’ – charging for squirts of butter, offering the same major studio product at each of their venues… and the layouts of some of those C.O. houses (i.e., the First & 62nd), among other faults – I think Garth Drabinsky, for the most part, operated under the best of intentions… the best of intentions, though… well, we know how those sometimes go…
I new Garth very well as he made me dm of manhattan south for Cineplex Odeon i never felt i could not talk to him honestly at any time.
When Cineplex took over and The Grand Pooh-bah came down from Toronto to tour the theatres that he thought he bought, they went here and he proclaimed that in the lobby he would install a cafe with carrot cake and coffee in fine china cups (similar to what eventually ended up in the Carnegie Hall Cinema). The RKO person who was conducting the tour said ‘You can’t use fine china cups here – in this theatre they steal the toilet seats off the toilets’. – the RKO person was advised not to tell The Grand Pooh-bah what he could or could not do…
What is the lobby like here?
M.F.
The theatre seats approximately 250 in each house. The screens are decent size, and the presentation is very good. All equipment and seats are new.
Hey—longislandmovies, Rose wants to know if you’re initals are M.C.??
Just out of curiosity, what’s the approximate seating capacity for each of the Coliseum’s four auditoriums? What’s the size of the screens – tiny, decent, medium, etc.?
It’s a flat marquee, Robert, about five years old, and on the front of the building, directly above the theatre entrance.
Is the marquee on the front or the side of the building?
It was a better twin than as a quad. they split the existing twin down the middle. which was already split when making the twin in the first place reducing patrons to seing a movie like they did in the mayfiar theatre downtown(a.ka Embasy 2-3-4) in the balcony theatres through a long tube that rises upward. I don’t know if any of the original remnants of the theatre remain in the other auditoriums I only went to auditorium 2 which is the right half of the old twins theatre 1 the old projection booth remain but was covered up with drapery on the side walls. one good thing they replaced the seats with a more comfortable plush seating. It looked like a patch up job on the ceiling. They also finally removed the big black illuminated sign that read R.K.O. Colisuem sign that hung on the 181st street side
How is this doing as a quad?
God what a bad twin
The orchestra part of the theatre has been gone for eons. RKO and then Cineplex were only using the balcony.
Under Cineplex Odeon, the Coliseum was a twin. (I’m not sure if that encompassed the balcony being divided in half or an orchestra/balcony split.)
It went from Century to almi century to RKO century warner to just RKO to CINEPLEX ODEON
Joe show her this list and see if she remembers, my movie history centurys york mgr,rko commack twin mgr, warner twin ast mgr ,art mgr, national twin and new warner mgr both at the same time and then manhattan south dm Cineplex Odeon.We had many a joke and busted chops with each other and Ken N.
Yes, I work with her. I showed her your post yesterday, and she was wondering who you were…
joe do you know ROSE?