Cumberland Theatre
327 Cumberland Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11238
327 Cumberland Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11238
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The Cumberland Theatre was a small neighborhood venue located on Cumberland Street, between Greene Avenue and Fulton Street near Brooklyn’s downtown area. It is listed as operating from 1914, and was closed in 1938.
It was converted to an A & P grocery store. All structures on this block have been demolished to create a vest-pocket park.
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Thx to Patrick Crowley for re-supplying this link to me. The theater had vanished from my profile list. Now I have to ask: Wha' happened to the dozen or so posts that were here earlier this year?
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LOL! You did a certificate of occupancy (?) and some organ info, LM. According to my ancient aunt, she had said the theater employed a decent piano player there about 1924-25.
I recall posting about my grandfather’s restaurant at 722 Fulton St. He allowed the theater owners to post a sign weekly in his front window that advertised the current movie(s). For that, he got a free pass each and every week. Not too shabby a deal.
Maybe the posts got lost when the CT brass upgraded? Quien sabe?
Been busy with the latest novel and on another site PKoch invited me to join (BB). Great to read you again, too!
I was on leave from Camp LeJeune July, 1967, and had visited my grandmother one block away. I recall that the 327 building address was still the old A&P grocery store, but I cannot be certain whether it was still doing business at that time.
Today it remains a vest-pocket park, traffic-free (Cumberland St. is no longer a through street to Atlantic Ave.), and is owned by the city. Thx for checking, LM.
[For anyone with a modicum of interest in this tiny nabe, there was some discussion of it on the Ridgewood page prior to its being listed here. Good luck finding it, however…]
The January 10, 1914, issue of Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide mentioned the project that became the Cumberland Theatre in an item about recent projects in Brooklyn’s Hill section: