Heights Theater
159 Washington Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11201
159 Washington Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11201
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CJDV…..I never doubted that the Madison theater existed. I even said that it was most likely named after Madison St. I was just trying to find a place to put it. It had to be in the fenced in area in the photo posted a few messages up. Which theater was built first? The address is still out of range unless the street next to the fenced in area didn’t exist at that time. 1410-1422 would take up almost seven lots and would bring the Madison theater out into the street in the photo. Do you want me to add the Madison Theater? Did it have any seats or was it SRO? :)
The Bushwick was built first. The Madison opened in September 1914. After looking at the address and reading your responses, I realized the problem. This appears to be an early typo from whatever publication I got the original information from. It must have been 1410-1412. The newspaper ads only say Broadway and Madison. Don’t have a seating capacity. In my posting, I was just trying to present some information on this movie house. The theatre fits quite snugly in the triangle shown your above photo. If there was anyway I could get the newspaper photo to you, I would do so. You seemed to be annoyed or was the SRO a joke? Once again my apologies if I caused any offence.
CJDV…..I’m not annoyed in the least. You provide valuable info on theaters that I could never find on my own. If I didn’t believe that the Madison existed, I wouldn’t have spent the time trying to make it fit. Yes, the SRO comment was a joke. When I add the smiley face :) I’m joking. Sometimes these posts are taken the wrong way. I never disrespect people on here unless their messages warrant it. Anyway, back to the Madison/Bushwick theaters. I would have thought that the Madison was built first and its presence was the reason that the Bushwick theater didn’t occupy the entire block. Its difficult to understand the logic that these theater owners used almost a hundred years ago. The address was the main problem. I could not understand how a building with an address range such as that could fit into that small of a space. Basically we were trying to squeeze a building that needed seven lots into a three lot area. Now it fits. Thanks.
Pretty cool. Thanks….I still say we should have moved this conversation over to the RKO Bushwick page a bunch of posts ago, but anyway, I’m glad the confusion was solved….although it must have been a pretty small theater!
A C/O was issued for a new building at this address on January 11, 1928. Purpose of building is an 834 seat motion picture theater. Architect was Herbert J. Krapp.
I was finally able to decipher the owners name on the 1928 C/O. It was David Hauser.
Ah, so this is where we were talking about the “second” Madison Theater.
A Wurlitzer theater organ opus 1375 style 135 was installed in the Heights Theater on 6/28/1926.
Here’s an undated exterior view of the Heights Theatre: View link 366
I think the el to the left was torn down by the late 40’s, so this is older than that.