Paradise Theatre

The theater stood on the corner of 28th street and 4th avenue. After the theater was torn down a bowling alley was erected in its place named Paradise Lanes. This too was torn down years later after it suffered a second fire, a little over two years after the first fire that temporarily knocked it out of business around St. Patrick's Day.

The Paradise Theatre seated 594 people.

Does anyone have a photo of the KFC that's now on the Paradise site?

As a kid I lived on 4th Ave. and I recall going to a movie theater only a few blocks from my house. I believe it was the Paradise. I remember the bowling alley vividly. I bowled there several times but I could never recall the name of the theater.I saw "Attack of the 50 ft. Woman" there so the place must have closed in the late 50's.Thanks to this site I can finally put a name to those movie memories.

The Paradise Theater was owned by Anthony Paolillo. He sold it and the new owners built the Bowling Alley in its place.

I've always wondered if my late parents ever went here, because when I was born, they lived on 28th St. between 3rd & 4th Aves. I know my neighbor across the street from me now on 22nd St. remembers going here, and she's about 80 !

I lived on 4th Ave. between 23rd & 24th Streets in the late 50's. I always remembered a movie theater being close to my house but forgot the name. My friends would say that there was always a bowling alley at that site. Now I can see I was right. As a kid I remember walking to the Paradise with my parents,it was only a few blocks away. I must have been 4 or 5 at that time. I have great memories of that neighborhood.