Mid-Town Theater

Open since at least 1913, originally known as the Colleen Theater, this small house, first operated as a nickelodeon by Hyman Lieberthal, stood on 47th Street at Emerald Avenue in the Canaryville neighborhood.

By the early-1920’s, the theater was called the New Lyric Theater, and by the late-1940’s, had been renamed the Mid-Town Theater. The former theater most recently housed a bar, but has since been razed along with most of the block it stood on and replaced by a condominium building.

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