Bay Ridge Theatre
7120 Third Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11209
7120 Third Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11209
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The Bay Ridge Theatre was opened on December 27, 1915 with 1,919 seats. It was closed in around 1963 and became a bingo club for many years. In a later conversion, the Bay Ridge Theatre’s 1,796-seat auditorium was gutted to make way for retail space.
Today, candy is still sold at the theater’s location, but only at the drug store which now occupies the former theater’s lobby. There is also a Macdonald’s restaurant, and a gymnasium on the upper levels.
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John Chappell
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I’m looking for information on the Trans Art Theater at 4805 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn. It was around in 1940. Perhaps here under another name, or a live theater? Thanks.
Never heard of it. Look in the Yellow pages.
The 1943 Film Daily Year Book has a listing for a 445-seat theatre called the Grand Art at 4805 Third Avenue, Brooklyn. It was listed as “closed” at the time. This was likely an early cinema and might have had other names over the years.
My Uncle was an Usher at the Etude. His boss also owned the Grand. This was in 1915-16. One of his duties was to run reels from the Etude to the Grand.
This was the building in 1968.
It looked pretty run down in 1968 already!
I assume the McDonalds only uses the lobby area. What is the rest of the theater used for? Does any ornamentation inside remain?
This is from an item datelined Brooklyn, in the trade journal Engineering & Contracting, issue of June 9, 1915: “Robert T. Rasmussen, architect… will let contracts at once for a 3-story, 88x169-ft theater here for the Bay Ridge Theater Corp…. estimated to cost $200,000.”
Here’s a photo of the Loew’s Bay Ridge c.1959
http://twitpic.com/3gz4o4
The 1959 photo has been moved to the following website:
http://yfrog.com/h80mohj
Great photo of this theater. A block away and across the street was Lento’s. Taking in a show at the Bay Ridge theater then getting a pizza at Lento’s must have been a good night.