New Yorker Theatre

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.”

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.

‘Frankly, we hope to make money’

Opening for the Talbot New Yorker in 1960;

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Closed in May 1985 after a run of “JUST OF THE GUYS” and “A PASSAGE TO INDIA”.

“Pull My Daisy” was/is a B&W “short” running about 28 minutes, and thus not considered a feature.

One of the best things about Toby Talbot’s book is a section reproducing numerous pages from the New Yorker’s business ledger, including film rentals, ad-pub expenses, and boxoffice takings. It even inlcudes the final booking for the Yorktown Theatre in March, 1960, which was a three-day subsequent-run engagement of “The Great Man” & “Face in the Crowd” that grossed a total of $1,036.50. The theatre then clossd for a day for refurbishing and opened as the New Yorker on March 17th with Olivier’s “Henry V” and “Red Balloon,” which grossed $7,048.93 in its first week, meriting a hold-over. A note in the book says that the entire ledger can be viewed on the Internet, but so far that is not possible: www.cup.columbia.edu/talbot

Thanks. I also just remembered that they actually twinned the theater at some point. Remember it as a pretty slapdash job, like they just put in a wall dividing the auditorium and the seats, which were not realigned. At least, that’s how I remember it.

When did the New Yorker Theatre close? An exhibit of hand-lettered posters for films that played there is currently on display in the gallery off the lobby of the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. According to that, the New Yorker ran from 1960 to 1973. This has to be wrong. I moved to NYC in January 1977, and attended many films at the New Yorker for several years. Could they have meant 1983?

Belated American premiere of a French and Italian film on the same 1965 program. Rouch and Fellini.

BROADWAY PLOT AT 89TH ST. SOLD; 3 Stores and a Theatre Included in Transaction

NY Times February 22, 1960

The Pamela Amusement Company has contracted to sell 2409-15 Broadway, southwest corner of Eighty-ninth Street, consisting of a three-story business building and the Yorktown Theatre. The property, 85 by 132 feet, is being acquired by R.J.K., Inc., a group including Sam Rosenberg and Albert Kaine.

Can anyone tell me if Elmer Gantry (1960) played at the New Yorker—or any other theater in the same Upper West Side neighborhood—in 1960?

In the 80s it played the Rocky Horror Show at midnight on weekends, with a couple of comic shorts as intro. The “Savannah” co-op now stands on the property.

A 1960 revival of “Sunset Boulevard"
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