New Yorker Theatre
2409 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10024
2409 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10024
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Originally opened as the Adelphi Theatre, and later called the Yorktown Theatre, 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.
The Walter Reade Organization took it over, and they twinned the theatre in 1979. Sadly 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-1970’s or so.
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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.”
2 newly found photos taken in front of this theatre to add…
http://www.thelmagazine.com/imager/b/magnum/2243536/4592/sarris-hitch-new-yorker.jpg A. Sarris and Hitchcock
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/02/03/nyregion/03COVER/03COVER-articleLarge.jpg Ed Koch in 77
Just curious why the top header has it listed as 1 screen but the last photo in the photo section shows a picture that says A Walter Reade Twin Theatre. When was it twinned and how? Down the middle etc??
I went there one time in 1982 to see the re release of Mary Poppins and it was a twin than.
It was twinned in 1979 by Walter Reade. I suspect the 150 seat balcony became a screen.