New Yorker Theatre
2409 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10024
2409 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10024
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Originally opened as the Adelphi, and later called the Yorktown, this was THE neighborhood theater to go to on the upper west side. “I worked there in concessions and box office as a teenager.”
Woody Allen filmed one of his movies within the lobby. It was a great revival theater showing plenty of Marx Brothers films and other wonderful artists. It had a sign in book inside, to which many patrons complained about the projector, etc.
When the Walter Reade Organization took it over, it was downhill from there and the upper west side lost another gem.
During an awful storm, the Art Deco relief of Diana the Huntress, which hung over the marquee, toppled over and remained on top of the marquee until the theater was finally demolished in the late 70’s or so.
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This page has a 1959 magenta-tinted picture of The New Yorker’s marquee showing a triple-feature: View link
“Pull My Daisy” was/is a B&W “short” running about 28 minutes, and thus not considered a feature.
For those in the NYC area, Toby Talbot’s recent hardcover book about the New Yorker and other Talbot theatres can be found for only $12.50 at Strand Books at 828 Broadway (corner of 12th Street). Today, I spotted a substantial stock of what are probably “review copies” in both the film and New York City sections of the store. The book’s list price is $25.00.
Closed in May 1985 after a run of “JUST OF THE GUYS” and “A PASSAGE TO INDIA”.
Another one gone.
‘Frankly, we hope to make money’
Opening for the Talbot New Yorker in 1960;
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In the background of the picture is the marquee of the Garden. Would this have been the Japanese Garden on CT or a theatre not on the site. I reviewed all the theatres named Garden. The Japanese Garden was on upper Broadway and the only possible match.
Hey robboehm… The Japanese Garden was located several blocks to the north of the New Yorker, near 96th Street, and would not be visible in the shot above. The marquee you are looking at belonged to the former Stoddard Theatre, which had been closed and converted into the Garden Supermarket in the 1950’s. It was located on the next block to the north of the New Yorker, between West 89th and West 90th Streets.
Thanks for the info. How bizarre. I couldn’t make out what was on the marquee but it didn’t look movie related.
Can’t really make it out completely, but it reads something like “Closed visit our market at” such-and-such street “and Broadway” (the R in Broadway is missing from the marquee). Can’t make out the first two words on the last line of the marquee, but the line ends with “to the area.”