Eden Theatre

409 5th Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11215

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ERD
ERD on June 10, 2011 at 2:19 pm

KenRoe, I appreciate all your contributions to Cinema Treasures.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on June 10, 2011 at 11:54 am

Bway, I have 1,000’s, so it will some time to add them, but will work on it!

Bway
Bway on June 10, 2011 at 2:17 am

Ken, will you be adding your wonderful collection of photos to the site?

frankie
frankie on July 28, 2006 at 3:01 pm

I’m out here, fellas, reading all your great updates on my neighborhood. You guys are TERRIFIC ! If ya wanna cry, check out the apartment tower that’s going up right behind the site of the 16th Street Theater below Fifth Avenue. At least someone’s LIVING INSIDE the old Globe on 15th above Fifth !!!

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on July 26, 2006 at 10:06 pm

Lost Memory;I have submitted the Minerva Theatre. I have many more theatres in NYC to add, but first I want to catch up on posting photographs I took of theatre’s already listed, particulary those which currently have no image posted up.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on July 26, 2006 at 7:11 pm

No mike, just an amateur theatre enthusiast who goes around cities of the world, photographing the buildings and researching their history. Glad to hear you enjoy looking at my ‘work’.

mikemorano
mikemorano on July 26, 2006 at 7:04 pm

I enjoy your photo’s kenroe. Are you a professional photographer?

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on July 26, 2006 at 6:43 pm

Here is a photograph of the Eden Theater which I took in July 2003:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/199053442/

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on July 26, 2006 at 6:13 pm

There is currently no listing on Cinema Treasures for the Minerva Theatre, 419 7th Avenue, Brooklyn. Details I have for it are: Opened 1912 as the Palace Theatre (listed in the American Motion Picture Directory 1914-1915). Still listed in Film Daily Yearbook’s 1926 and 1927 as the Palace (450 seats). By 1930 it had been re-named Armory Theatre, still with 450 seats. By 1941 it was the 398 seat Minerva Theatre. Closed in 1951. Converted into apartments in around 2003.

frankie
frankie on July 26, 2006 at 4:48 pm

Finally ! I KNEW this theater existed ! I had its address in a Brooklyn newspaper clipping from the ‘80s. I live in that neighborhood and pass that superette all the time. Now if someone could confirm the Minerva on Seventh & 14th in The Slope ! The building is still there as a new apartment complex with a dumb top floor added, and the entrance on 14th.