Savoy Theatre
2341 Hughes Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10458
2341 Hughes Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10458
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This theater originally opened as the Hughes, and was later known as Cinell’s Italian-American Savoy Theatre and still later, simply the Savoy Theatre. It was located at Hughes Avenue and 186th Street, in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, the “Little Italy” of that borough.
The Savoy Theatre closed by 1970, and was later torn down to make way for the Enrico Fermi Cultural Center and Belmont branch of the New York Public Library.
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This is a similar photo.
I’m 55 and grew up on Beaumont Avenue. My best childhood memories are going to the Savoy every Saturday (and sometimes Sunday) for the children’s matinee. I really miss that place. I just found an 8mm film I took when they demolished the Savoy. I plan to put it on YouTube soon.
If it’s similar to another photo that someone displayed, why bother to post a link to it? Just so that you can add another post to your record of more than 20,000? Since you seem to be suffering from acute verbal diarrhea, I suggest that you change your moniker to Loose Bowels.
Because it is not an identical photo and it is not a duplicate. Why did you just post another idiotic comment? I see that your still keep track of my comments. Make sure none of them disappear. I wouldn’t want my comment count to fall to your paltry level. LOL
I just posted a short film I made about The Savoy. You can watch it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ftGm69Hs4&fmt=18
Bravo! Extremely well done! But at least the theatre was replaced by a public library, which hopefully will serve the community well for many generations to come. Thank God it didn’t become another supermarket or Duane Reade!
Thanks Warren. Yeah, most of the old theatres are unrecognizable, except for the ones turned into churches or bingo halls. They still have the marquee outside.
I recently updated the short film I made about the Savoy, which shows when the theater was demolished. You can watch it on YouTube at the link below…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU63XQghLMY&fmt=18
This was built as the Hughes Theatre by Isador Benenson, a real estate investor whose death, at age 68, was reported in The New York Times on 2/21/1946. According to the obituary, Benenson and sons Charles and William were also responsible for the Benenson, Freeman, and Winter Garden cinemas in the Bronx, and the Austin in Kew Gardens, Queens. The Winter Garden was apparently the earliest and closed in the 1920s. The address, according to Michael Miller’s list of Bronx theatres, was 1874 Washington Avenue. Miller gave no seating capacity.
If anyone has any stories about going to/ working at this threatre in its adult days, I would love to hear them. I am chronicling the histories of adult theatres in the US. Please contact me at Thanks!