Queens Theatre
219-36 Jamaica Avenue,
Queens Village,
NY
11428
219-36 Jamaica Avenue,
Queens Village,
NY
11428
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The former Queens Theatre stands on Jamaica Avenue at Springfield Boulevard. It was a Century theatre for many years and the movie house then went XXX for a time. The theater was independently operated as a porn theater, before closing as a movie house for good.
It was then restored and reopened as a concert venue named the Queens Theatre, but it never really took off and sadly closed.
Finally it found its true calling as a church.
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Even though the Church acquired a 2,500-seat facility, that doesn’t necessarily mean that all the seats will be used for services. The 2,200-seat Elmwood in Elmhurst has also become a church, but only the main floor is being used for services. And its original fire escapes are still in place on both sides of the auditorium.
Even though the Church acquired a 2,500-seat facility, that doesn’t necessarily mean that all the seats will be used for services. The 2,200-seat Elmwood in Elmhurst has also become a church, but only the main floor is being used for services. And its original fire escapes are still in place on both sides of the auditorium.
The Elmwood used to be one of my favorite places to work because the booth had a door that goes into the lower roof. Some guys used to barbarque out there….until someone called the fire dept. to report a fire and they evacuated the theatre.-lol
I wonder if or how much damage the Queens might sustain with this hurricane? I’m only a few miles away but on higher ground….and I’m afraid because of the wind.
At least they won’t have to worry about the marquee blowing off. I remember a hurricane way back when when the marquee of the Green Acres wound up on the parking lot with the letters in tact. The movie? A revival of Gone With the Wind. True. I wish there were camera phones in those days.
Hey, I remember when that happened at Green Acres, that wasn’t even a “real” hurricane or bad as this one is supposed to be.
It’s too bad that of all the pictures there are of the Queens Theatre, they picked one that shows the marquee all ripped up from trucks hitting it.
Once they cut those steel beams off (which go DEEP into the structure) they can never put a “real” marquee back up again. It was pretty stupid to take them out, even if they didn’t want a full marquee.
I assume the marquee that you guys are talking about, that was blown off the Green Acres Theatre, was the flat board that was on the back of the building facing the mall? I remember the old main marquee on Sunrise Highway being huge – I think it spanned the width of the entire facade!
As for the photo of the Queens, techman, looks like it is the only one that has been posted here. In fact, it was ME who posted it! Ha ha! I snapped it back in 1993 when the theater had been shuttered and recently acquired by the church. I know there are other photos out there – particularly the great set on the American Classic Images website – but I believe posting those here may infringe upon their copyrights.
Ed, I have movie film of the theatre in 1957. Maybe if I’m ever feeling better (with emphysema I seem to get worse every day) I can tranfer it and pull out a few nice stills of the theatre that aren’t too grainy.
Queens Theatre is now being used as the name for a “live” venue in Flushing Meadows Corona Park: queenstheatre
I wouldn’t count any of the junk in Flushing Meadow Park as a theatre. If they want to STEAL the name “Queens Theatre”, good luck to them. As long as “WE” all know where the Queens Theatre really is, let them delude themselves.
A delayed comment to Ed’s 8/26 on the Green Acres. No, it was the big guy facing Sunrise.