West End Theatre
52nd Street & New Utrecht Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11219
52nd Street & New Utrecht Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11219
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The West End Theatre was a small movie house built after the first decade of the 20th century. It showed silent movies. It closed around the time the fancier Boro Park theatre was built next to it in 1923. It had a large vertical sign in front but no marquee. A 1919 photograph of the facade is in the Brooklyn Library collection.
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The West End theatre was built on New Utrecht avenue when the West End train line was on street level. It was one of the earliest movie theatres built in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn
Here is another photo from the Brooklyn Library:
http://tinyurl.com/y3woz2
The photo from the Brooklyn Library was taken in 1918 after the “El"
was built on New Utrecht Avenue. The silent picture featured was Paramount’s "My Cousin”, a comedy starring Enrico Caruso.(Adolph Zukor had signed the famous operatic tenor to make three silent movies for his studio. Although Caruso couldn’t be heard, his movie debut was a success)
Unlike Pavarotti, whose only film in 1981 was a dud.
The correct zip code is 11219.