Costello Theatre

23 Fort Washington Avenue,
New York, NY 10032

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The Costello Theatre opened in 1914. It was located on Fort Washington Avenue near 160th Street and today is home to a church.

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Warren G. Harris
Warren G. Harris on April 16, 2006 at 5:02 am

The LOC image is apparently a print made from a nitrate negative. I’ve added some light to bring out more background detail:
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/costellofix.jpg

lostmemory
lostmemory on June 12, 2007 at 11:08 am

THEATRE PANIC AVERTED; Policemen Quietly Put Out Fire Uptown and Reassure Audience

NY Times August 9, 1937

Prompt work by the police prevented a panic among an audience of more than 400 persons in the Costello Theatre, a moving picture house at 23 Fort Washington Avenue, near 160th Street, shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon when fire broke out in several empty barrels stored in a shed in an alley adjoining the theatre.

Warren G. Harris
Warren G. Harris on January 25, 2008 at 7:09 am

The Costello first opened in 1914 and had Louis A. Sheinart as architect, according to Craig Morrison’s historical reference book, “Theaters.”

lellins
lellins on August 19, 2010 at 8:18 am

I lived at 160th street and riverside drive and went to the Costello on Satudays (in the 40’s). You could get in for free if you had the right colored card – cards were distributed to kids every week. Otherwise, it cost 25 cents. Later on it did become a spanish movie theatre.

It was located at the very beginning of Fort Washinton Avenue (159th street).

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on November 29, 2010 at 4:52 am

Andrew Craig Morrison’s book “Theaters” identifies Louis A. Sheinart as the architect of the Costello Theatre.

Smittysf
Smittysf on July 12, 2011 at 8:20 pm

My mom remembers going go the theatre with her friend Ruth schwartzman in 1932. They were thrown out of A Farewell to Arms and apparently a few others due to crying too much.

Tinseltoes
Tinseltoes on July 13, 2011 at 5:44 am

That would have been the original B&W Paramount version with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. “A Farewell to Arms” was later re-made in B&W by Warner Bros. as “Force of Arms” (William Holden-Nancy Olson), and still later in CinemaScope and color by David O. Selznick for 20th-Fox with Jennifer Jones and Rock Hudson.

Tinseltoes
Tinseltoes on May 18, 2012 at 11:14 am

Here’s a vintage view from the LaGuardia Archives: lunaimaging

bigjoe59
bigjoe59 on December 13, 2012 at 10:34 am

Hello-

i was looking at back issues of Moving Picture World on archive.org and happened upon a May issue which gave the opening date of the theater as May 20, 1914. it was built to honor star Maurice Costello. also the article gave a different address than the own stated at the top of this page.

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