Comments about Loew's Pitkin Theatre in Brooklyn, NY

PKoch on March 21, 2006 at 12:46 pm

Thanks, KenRoe.

BTW, are you Kenneth Roe of the engineering firm of Burns & Roe ?

Herbie, are you the fabled and famous “Prince Of Pitkin Avenue” ?

Ken Roe on March 20, 2006 at 9:15 pm

hdl37 on March 20, 2006 at 7:32 pm

you are just jealous

Ken Roe on March 20, 2006 at 7:21 pm

Hey Guys, Interesting as this may be to to the two of you, but this has nothing to do with the Pitkin. My e-mail box is filling up fast here! Can you chat on another forum or swap e-mails please. Thanks

hdl37 on March 20, 2006 at 7:16 pm

Monroe exit 8A NJTPK

PKoch on March 20, 2006 at 7:14 pm

Where in NJ ?

hdl37 on March 20, 2006 at 7:13 pm

small world. I live in NJ now

PKoch on March 20, 2006 at 7:09 pm

My father went to ENY VOCATIONAL high, near the Atlantic Avenue station on the Canarsie and Fulton Street elevated lines. I was delivered by a Dr. Joseph Berman whose office was at, I think, 25 Logan St. near Jamaica Avenue.

hdl37 on March 20, 2006 at 7:05 pm

I went to HS at ENY VOCATIONAL Logan and Wells 1 block from Liberty Ave

PKoch on March 20, 2006 at 7:03 pm

I’m from Bushwick and Ridgewood myself. My father was from Bushwick but he knew Pitkin Avenue from about the Pitkin, past Rockway Avenue, to about Pennsylvania Avenue.

hdl37 on March 20, 2006 at 7:00 pm

Sutter and Strauss 3 blocks from the Pitkin 1937 thru 1959

PKoch on March 20, 2006 at 6:59 pm

Thanks, Herbie, what was your old neighborhood ?

hdl37 on March 20, 2006 at 6:57 pm

since you are probably from my old neighborhood I forgive you.

PKoch on March 20, 2006 at 6:52 pm

Yes, that was rather tasteless and cynical of me. I apologize.

hdl37 on March 20, 2006 at 5:47 pm

P.Koch

Do you still have your arm bands?

PKoch on March 20, 2006 at 12:26 pm

a.k.a., “Oy Gut Gevalt, There Goes The Neighborhood !”

Co-directed by David Susskind and Steven Spielberg.

“This week’s current social controversy is brought to you by …”

PKoch on March 20, 2006 at 12:23 pm

Herbie, you’re not a Volkswagen, are you ?

Ah, Brownsville : militant and criminal blacks vs. corny old show business and Garment District Jews !

Tune in next week for yet another episode of that ever-popular Marxist game, “Class Struggle” !

Same Bat Time, same Bat Channel !

Directed by Spike Lee.

It’s better than Ghettopoly !

PKoch on March 20, 2006 at 12:17 pm

Thanks, Herbie, laugh riots are better than race riots.

Nary a dry eye or seat in the house, eh ?

hdl37 on March 20, 2006 at 11:52 am

Hopkinson theatre was on Hopkinson between Sutter and Pitkin.
I lived on Sutter and Strauss. Used to go there for 5 hour laugh riots.

Herbie

StatenIsland1 on February 6, 2006 at 8:15 pm

Who owns this theatre? I would love to see the inside and pictures on how it looks now. Maybe someone can do a documentary of closed theatres in new york and they can show us the insides.

Kris

PKoch on January 19, 2006 at 2:33 pm

alkan, have you looked for “Brein’s Theater” on this site, or on Cinematour ?

morralkan on December 27, 2005 at 10:22 pm

I’m not sure it was a Yiddish theater, but, when I was riding my bike down Pitkin Avenue a few years ago, I noticed an old building perhaps 15 blocks east of the Loew’s Pitkin that had “Brein’s Theater” carved into the stonework over its front door. Has anyone heard of this place before? Its name certainly sounds like it could have been a Yiddish theater once upon a time. (As I remember, it is some sort of church now.

PKoch on December 27, 2005 at 8:53 pm

Thanks, Warren.

PKoch on December 27, 2005 at 5:25 pm

Thank you, Sylvia. Please, where is the Manhattan JCC that the Folksbiene now does its productions at ?

I know there used to be a thriving Yiddish Theater scene around Second Avenue and East 7th St. in Manhattan (corrections welcome).

Was there ever a Yiddish Theater scene in Brooklyn, perhaps at Loew’s Pitkin ? Not off-topic at all.

creativa on December 27, 2005 at 4:03 pm

Off-topic.Yiddish theater is still alive and well. New Yorkers can check out the Folksbiene, now in its 90th consecutive year, doing productions at the Manhattan JCC.

Sylvia Schildt

Loew's Pitkin Theatre

1501 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11212

1501 Pitkin Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11212