Lyric Theatre

523 Tompkins Avenue,
Rosebank, NY 10305

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The Lyric Theatre is located in the Rosebank district of Staten Island. The first reference I have found for the Lyric Theatre is in the the 1927 edition of Film Daily Yearbook which lists it, but gives no seating capacity (usually this means it has just opened and no details have been passed on the F.D.Y.).

In the 1930 edition of F.D.Y. it has a seating capacity given as 350. By 1941 it has disappeared from listings.

The small single storey building still stands and in 2003 was in use as a retail/wholesale store known as Island Electronics. This business has since closed.

Contributed by KenRoe

Recent comments (view all 6 comments)

garth on February 5, 2006 at 9:39 am

thanks to KenRoe for this , i live in the area and had no idea there was once a theatre there. i’ll have to stop in there and look around….

garth on June 6, 2006 at 12:27 pm

island electronics is apparently kaput . wonder why the theatre didn’t last long , that was unusual back then…

lostmemory on June 6, 2006 at 4:15 pm

The street name should be Tompkins Avenue with a “p”. The building is listed as a restaurant in June of 1940.

lostmemory on July 30, 2007 at 4:22 pm

Here is a photo of the Lyric Theater.

KenRoe on July 30, 2007 at 4:45 pm

I believe 523 Tompkins Avenue now maps as Hylan Boulevard.

lostmemory on July 30, 2007 at 4:53 pm

Tompkins Avenue is not the same as Hylan Boulevard. Tompkins Avenue crosses Hylan Boulevard, but its not the same street.

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