New York Theatre
1482 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
1482 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10036
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I am working on a project to document the history of adult theatres in the US. If anyone has any person memories of the Globe/ Big Apple they would be willing to share, please contact me at mjprigge at uwm dot edu
The New York’s marquee can be seen at bottom right in this classic 1950 photo by Andreas Feininger: staticflickr
This 1940 film clip opens with views of the New York Theatre marquee, then switches to views of the Embassy Newsreel: View link
Nice article Al.
Registering.
This article appeared in the NYT on February 27, 1940.
View link
This intro needs to be adjusted. The New York opened in March 1940 on the site of the Geo. M. Cohan which had last showed movies in 1938.
The New York’s marquee can be seen at left in this late-night view of the Times Square area in the 1950s: View link
Here are two photos from 1986.
Photo1
Photo2
Here is a 1971 photo from Life Magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/6h6ama
D.O.A. opened at the Criterion in early May 1950.
Here is an undated photo from skyscrapercity.com:
http://tinyurl.com/3gamyc
That works. Thanks.
Here it is again:
http://tinyurl.com/59vldh
That’s odd, as they come up on my computer. I will try PB.
The link doesn’t work. This might be one of those times where you should put the photo in your Photobucket.
Here is an October 1975 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5wsvlb
In early television (late 40s and 50s) The New York theater’s marquee was always prominent in the coverage of New Year Eve’s celebration in Times Square. As a Midwesterner I was always surprised each year to see that the New York with such a great location was always showing a second-run film.
I saw something here once…The Opening of Misty Beethoven, I think. I wish I had appreciated the theater more at the time, and paid less attention to what was on the screen.
Hey Hollywood – what happened to your photos?
Damn you, Hollywood!
Now I’m craving Nathan’s hot dog and I am nowhere near New York.
I think we’re confusing two different theaters.
The theater on Broadway near Nathan’s was at one time known as the Cine 43 when it was running kung fu movies in the early ‘80s, then switched to Spanish language movies before changing its name to the Big Apple and finishing off its existence as a porn theater.
The Cine 1 and 2 was further uptown on 7th Avenue, and it did run mainstream stuff for a while, after doing the Spanish language programming, then porn, then doing the Giuliani 60/40 video grindhouse thing.
I apparently wrote the introduction about three years ago, and have no recall except that some of the information came from the theatre’s clippings file at the Lincoln Center Library. However, the first comment after the introduction, by Seth Lewis, seems to confirm that this was operating as two screens at the end. When I am next at the library, I will request the file again to see what I can find that will either prove or disprove the existence of Cine 1 and 2 at this location.
Thanks, Al. I think the latter is most likely the case. Warren’s description as to how Cine 1 and 2 operated here sounds too much like the history of the Agee/Cine/Show Palace that was between the DeMille and the Doll a few blocks up Seventh Ave to be coincidence. Unless he can clear this up, my guess is that he got his facts crossed up a bit between the two sites when posting this submission.
Ed, I can’t find any proof that this sight was ever operating as that although it may very well have done so as a porn site.
It is also quite possible that the Big Apple named the screens Cine-1 and Cine-2 once you went inside. This was not rare in the mini cinema era.