Eden Theater
409 Fifth Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11215
409 Fifth Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11215
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KenRoe, I appreciate all your contributions to Cinema Treasures.
Bway, I have 1,000’s, so it will some time to add them, but will work on it!
Ken, will you be adding your wonderful collection of photos to the site?
A Wurlitzer theater organ opus 990 style 108 was installed in the Eden Theater on 1/30/1925.
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 !!!
You are fast Ken. No grass grows under your feet. LOL Take your time. I was just curious if you were going to add the Minerva.
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….I did a quick check on 419 7th Avenue. I believe the first c/o I found for this address was from 1927. Its listed as a 414 seat moving picture theater. Actually NYC gives the address as 419-21 7th Avenue but 419 is just fine. Are you going to write this one up?
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’.
I enjoy your photo’s kenroe. Are you a professional photographer?
Here is a photograph of the Eden Theater which I took in July 2003:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/199053442/
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….There was a Minerva theater at 419 7th Avenue in Brooklyn. The only problem is, I don’t know if its listed on this site under another name.
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.
This is a current real estate report for this address:
Block & Lot #: 00999 – 0006
Building Class: Miscellaneous Store Building (K9)
School District: 15 map/schools
City Council District: 39
Police Precinct: 78 (Crime Statistics)
Political Contributions: search
BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS
Zoning R6
Building Size (F x D): 39.42ft x 94.00ft
Lot Size (F x D): 39.42ft x 96.83ft
Building Height: –
Total Gross Area of Building:
Year Built: 1925
Historic District?: No
Corner Lot?: No
Has Garage?: No
Number of Floors: 2
Units: 0
FAR as built: 1.94
Allowable FAR: 2.43
With a build date of 1925, it appears that the Eden theater building still stands. Located at this address today is the 409 5th Ave Food Corp (718-499-7547), classified as a Convenience Store. Function should be Retail.
A June 1933 c/o shows a 438 seat motion picture theater located at 409-411 5th Ave.