Marboro Theatre
6817 Bay Parkway,
Brooklyn,
NY
11204
6817 Bay Parkway,
Brooklyn,
NY
11204
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What I find amazing is that the theater deteriorated so quickly! Obviously, it was falling apart before they closd it already, as some of the deterioration couldn’t have happened overnight. But so quickly it looks like a cave!
The photos apparently were taken in the fall of 2003, so all the deterioration you see happened in just a little over a year, seeing that the Marboro closed in July 2002!
Bway,
Those photos are sad. To see such a once great theatre in such awful shape is depressing. Regal just walked away and threw the keys away, letting the vandals destroy the place. But they can never destroy our memories!!!
Here’s some photos I found on the web of the Marlboro’s interior in it’s current state of disrepair:
http://www.hopetunnel.org/ue/marboro/index.htm
An upcale cinema in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn? Where would the customers come from? Regal operates an indie/foreign division called Regal Cinema Art, maybe they will be in charge if the project goes thru.
I have heard the plans are to tear down the building and put in
a retail / cinema complex catering to the upscale clientele.
This may happen as soon as April 2005. Regal will not be the
operator of this cinema.
This is the other theater I went to when I lived on West 13th. I have seen many a film here including “White Nights” in 1985 and the last film I saw there was “L.A. Confidential” in 1997. My wife hated the theater because when they seperated the floors they kept the same screen. It was horrible.
Now continue talking about the plans for Regal cinema to re-open.
The Marboro has recently been sealed by the FDNY. Regal has made NO ATTEMPTS to seal this theater. The interior has been vandalized heavily. The lack of heat has caused the plaster ceiling in the balcony to collapse in many places. Whatever they plan to do, DO IT SOON!
The Marboro theatre will reopen in 2006 with stadium seating, Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound and a brand new interior, this has been confirmed by the Regal Entertainment Group Construction Department. A much needed and missed theatre will be coming back to serve the residents of Bensonhurst Brooklyn!
It is going to be a Kohls. The signs are already there.
The building behind Best Way was looked at by a few chains for a theatre but the rent and lease situation was more then a theatre could justify.
i think its going to be a kohls dept store but i love the idea of a theatre
Any new news on this theatre?
I really do not think Regal will re-open it.. in their eyes, people can go to the Sheepshead.
Also, there is no parking here… What are they going to do anout that?
Has anyone heard rumblings from years ago about a new theatre going next to the Belt Parkway behind Best Buy, before you get to Nelly Bly on the service road?
If you go to the NYC Dept of Buildings Website, you will see that permits have been issued for this theatres address. The building is still owned by Regal as well.
When JAWS opened here in its' initial release, this was still a single screen. Living in Flatbush JAWS, was playing a lot closer at Century’s Rialto but they were sold out virtually the first four weeks straight, I traveled to my old Junior High School neighborhood to see Jaws at the Marboro by bus and train.
I’ll believe when I see it.
Regal Entertainment plans to start construction sometime later this year with the work ending sometime in 2006.
Any idea when work will start?
I was told this is a definate Regal multi-plex site.
Yes it was 4.. but it DID have The Rocky Horror Picture Show there… I remmeber leaving from a movie with a friend and all these weird people were running up the stairs.. so we went back and watched….
Any word on further renovations to the theatre?
Wrong theater. This place was 4 screens.
If I remeber correctly this was a Quad that they converted to I think 8 theatres . It was the one movie theatre in the area that had discount matinee shows so it was always packed on saturday mornings. They were also one of the first theatres to have the midnight Rocky Horror Shows taking its cue from the Waverly in Manhattan. Most of the theatres were small and sound wasnt too great
The Midway prospers and no area is worse to park in then Forest Hills.
This would be great.. a tribute to my grandparents whose 1st date was here…. and then more first dates can lead into new families again… Please keep us up to date.
It is a good location although they will need to add parking to whatever they make someplace… with no lot, you only will get neighborhood traffic… OK for one screen or even 4 but not a lot.
Something is going on with this movie house and if Dolby is parked in front, you can expect it will reopen at some point soon.
NYC Department of Buildings issued a work permit on 7/25/03 for “Repair and Upgrade of Existing Theater where shown on plans – No change in Use, Egress, or Occupancy.”
An electrical contractor is in the theater this very moment, and a truck from a supplier of Dolby digital equipment is parked in front.