Loew's Grand Theater

2463 Jerome Avenue,
Bronx, NY 10468

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Located on the corner of Fordham Road and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. You can still see the painting on the brick wall that faces Fordham Road – “Loew’s Grand – Vaudeville and Photo Plays”. The paint is covered by a thin veil at the moment.

Completely gutted and turned into retail stores that took up the entire two floors. In the 1980’s it was a Loehmann’s clothing store, then a Lionel Kiddy City, a Wiz, and now a cheap department store called El Mundo.

Contributed by Arleen Colon

Recent comments (view all 17 comments)

Warren G. Harris on September 18, 2005 at 10:43 am

The 2004 photos show the auditorium portion still standing, but housing at least a portion of a Wiz retail store. However, the Wiz chain has since closed down, so I don’t know the present status of the site. Perhaps one of our Bronx residents could check it out and file a report.

lostmemory on September 28, 2005 at 2:27 pm

A Robert-Morton organ Size 3/14 was installed in the Loew’s Grand Theater in 1927.

joemasher on September 28, 2005 at 5:32 pm

The auditorium of the Grand was long ago gutted completely and refitted with two or three complete levels. There is a college operating in it. The Wiz was in the former lobby and some of the other retail space.

lostmemory on October 12, 2005 at 3:41 pm

This photo of the Loew’s Grand is the same as Damien posted on Jun 24, 2004 only this one is alot clearer. The date given with the photo is 1928.

Warren G. Harris on May 5, 2006 at 6:51 am

A Loew’s circuit ad in the March 1st, 1943 issue of The New York Times says that the Grand Theatre sold $153,000 in U.S. War Bonds in one day. I don’t know why the Grand was singled out for mention, but perhaps just to inspire patrons of all Loew’s theatres to try to equal or suprass that mark.