Woodrow Theater
610 Wilson Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11207
610 Wilson Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11207
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This theater didn’t appear to last too long.
The Woodrow building had been replaced by two small one story buildings at some point:
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Ken….Whatever the name of that theater was, I just added it. Okay, I have another fifteen Brooklyn theaters for you to look up. (just kidding) Thanks for all of your help.
I think your change of name theory could be correct. No listing after 1927 at this address, so it probably only lasted a few years and closed as talkies came in. It’s not in the 1930 Film Daily Yearbook. Better get it listed lostmemory before this page becomes the Arcade Theatre/Greene Street Arcade Theatre debate. Thanks!
Since this theater is listed as Green “Street” in 1926-27 regardless of the spelling, it had to be in Greenpoint. The other Greene St was renamed to Greene Ave back in the teens so that eliminates that street. We have a real theater with a probable location. Thats good enough for me. If the location turns out to be wrong, I’ll pay the $1.59 wrong location fee. :) If we don’t take some risks with these Brooklyn theaters, they will always be missing from here. One more question before I add this theater, is there any listing for this theater after 1927?
There is a Majestic Theater listed in 1914 on Seneca Avenue and Greene Street? Thats my theater! Wow, I didn’t think that the Majestic was that old. The Majestic is already listed on here and it was in Ridgewood, Queens. I need to update that theater.
Forget the airdome theory, there was only one building on this property. When this property was first registered with Kings County it was two lots with two addresses. It was known as 153 and 155 Green St. If the build date is correct, there has been one 50 x 100 foot building that spanned both 25 foot lots since 1908 using the address of 153 Green St. How about a vaudeville theater being built in 1908 and later becoming a movie theater. Could this theater have changed names around 1925-26 and that is the reason for the two names in the 1926 FDY?
I had difficulties mapping, which is why I left it alone rather than make mistakes. No, it’s not listed in the American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915. There is a Majestic Theatre listed in that book, located at Seneca Avenue and Greene Street, Brooklyn, but I believe this is actually in Queens! As I said>>>>>confused!
This one is a little confusing because of the spelling of the name Green(e). There is a Green St listed for Greenpoint. When you map 153, the map returns 153 George Apen St. Thats okay because the street name could have been changed. There is also a Greene Ave (with an “e”) and its original name was Greene St. There is no 153 address listed for Greene Ave. The only number close to that is 154 which is a public school. The odd numbers close to this address are 145 and 165 Greene Ave.
I’ll assume that it was Green St aka George Apen St in Greenpoint. That would be located by Manhattan Ave. The City lists a warehouse at that address with a build date of 1908. Is this theater listed in the American Motion Picture Directory? If it was in Greenpoint, this theater would have been about one block from the Midway Theater.
Thanks Ken. Okay, we have two names with one address. Sounds like another theater with an airdome built next to it. Its a Brooklyn theater, I should have known that it wouldn’t be simple. Maybe we should let shoeshoe14 add this one. :) I’ll snoop around and see what I can find on this theater.
Film Daily Yearbook;1926 listed under Brooklyn has Arcade Theatre, 153 Green Street with 475 seats and Greene Street Arcade Theatre, 153 Greene Street with 400 seats.
Film Daily Yearbook;1927 listed under Brooklyn has Green Street Arcade Theatre, 153 Greene Street with 400 seats.
Spellings given here are as published. Confused?
I will leave this for someone with a more local knowledge to add
Then please list it under “submit theaters” and enter as much info as you can find. Within a few hours, you’ll have more info added by site users.
Thanks for taking the time to look for the theater on Evergreen Avenue, Ken. I came across one other possible theater in Brooklyn. It was either called the Greene Street Arcade or just plain Arcade on Greene Street.
Iv'e looked through reference books 1914-1915, 1926, 1927, 1941 and no record of a theatre at that address on Evergreen Avenue, in fact no theatre on Evergreen or Grove at all. I admit the building does look theatrical though.
Do you believe in ESP? :) The Woodrow was open in the mid 1920’s and maybe into the late 20’s so I was wondering if the drugstore could be the theater building with a “makeover”.
Hahaha, lost, we must have been typing at the same time….were both thinking the same thing!
As for your question about the Woodrow (your message wasn’t there when I started typing my above message), That corner building is quite old because of the cornices on it. I don’t believe it was the theater building, but it was built long ago.
You are welcome. I’ve had the photo on my computer for the last year, but had “no place to post it”. I don’t even remember where we all discussed it. It had to be somewhere on this site, ,talked about under another theater, for me to photograph it last year.
BTW, speaking of “mystery theaters”, I found noticed this old theater when I was in Bushwick a few weeks ago. I have no idea what it was. It’s 435 Evergreen Ave, at the corner of Grove and Evergreen. If anyone with one of those theater books could look up anything on Evergreen Ave, it would be appreciated.
Lostmemory did a little research on it, and found out the building is now owned by HUD.
Here’s the links to photos of it:
Photo 1
Photo 2
Bway….When do you think that the drugstore was built? After the 1920’s? The City doesn’t give a build date for this address so I listed it as closed.
Next project: Bway took a photo of 435 Evergreen Ave in Brooklyn. The building looks like it could have been a theater at one time. Doing a property search didn’t turn up much. It seems that HUD acquired the property in the 1980’s and no records prior to their takeover are listed. It is classified as a nursing home. This is one of the photos. Does anyone know if a theater was ever located at this address?
Bway;Thanks for the photo and confirmation of the site’s current status. Much appreciated.
Well, anyway, we can obviously change the status to demolished, because it doesn’t appear these buildings were ever a theater, but obviously the two lots had “something” tornn down at some point.
Somewhere on this site, we must have been talking about this theater last year some time (probably when everyone was researching for missing Brooklyn Theaters in the Ridgewood Theater section), because I took a photo of this site last year when I took a whole bunch of theater photos.
Anyway, here’s the link from last September
Thanks for all the great info on this theater. I didn’t think that it was the other Decatur theater because of the different address. I was just hoping that this theater wasn’t listed on here under another name. I think that there are many other old Brooklyn theaters missing from C.T. We can take the picture of this theater off the milk carton because its home now. :)
The American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915 has this listed as the Decatur Theater, 612 Hamburg Avenue (today Wilson Avenue).
In the 1926 edition of Film Daily Yearbook it has been re-named the Woodrow Theater, 610 Wilson Avenue with a seating capacity of 300 and has the same details in the 1927 edition. In the 1930 edition of F.D.Y. it has disappeared from the listings and I can’t see an operating theatre listed at this address in any further editions of F.D.Y.. Maybe it never made it into ‘talkies’
Regarding the ‘other’ Decatur Theater at 1674 Broadway, Brooklyn (600 seats) mentioned above by shoeshoe /theaters/7929/ it is listed as operating in the 1926 edition of F.D.Y., this could perhaps? have been the People’s Pleasure Palace which is listed in The American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915 as being located at 1676 Broadway, Brooklyn.
According to cinematour.com, the Decatur Theatre was located at 1674 Broadway in Brooklyn. The Woodrow has no listing.