Flatbush Pavilion
314 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11238
314 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11238
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The Flatbush Pavilion, located in Brooklyn’s now fashionable Park Slope, is down the road from where such former movie palaces as the Fox and Albee once stood.
A small twin, the theater was closed in May of 2004.
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Ross Melnick
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Here is a recent photo of the marquee.
A color photo of the marquee being used by American Apparel can be found on the front page of today’s NY Daily News. The site happens to be adjacent to a subway station that was closed by this week’s storm flooding.
Here is another photo of the marquee:
http://tinyurl.com/3275jh
Yawn.
The closeing of this dive was a mercy killing. The place was a horrid place to see a film. The lobby was dark and dank; the auditoria were even more forboding. The film presentation was beyond bad. In a day and age of 6 channel digital sound, this place was still sporting a mono system in both rooms.
It was a scouting exhibition just to find a seat that wasn’t broken, and even those that were in decent shape were very uncomfortable.
The screens were placed much too high making the viewing angle very hard on the neck muscles. Because it was twined, the rooms were long and narrow, giving you the feeling that you were in a tunnel. This shape was detrimental to speech intelligibility, which sank to near zero; it was a good thing they ran lots of foreign films so you could read the dialogue.
This abomination is an example of just how terrible a movie theatre can be when it is tortured into more than one screen, even though it was designed as a single — a sorry practice in the rush to multiplex. It is no wonder it drove patrons away.
Sadly, there are many, many theatres that should have been saved; this is not one of them.
B&W photo of the theatre when it was the Plaza.
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Here’s a photo when it was Cinema Plaza in 1980:
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I remember passing by the theater when it was the Plaza and the for a quite awhile the community was up in arms because it was showing XXX rated movies. Then it went back to first run for a short time before closing.
After it switched back from porn, it played mainstream for many, many years.
Back in the late 50’s, early 60’s it showed most foreign and “art” movies.