Comet Theater
856 Gates Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11221
856 Gates Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11221
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The Comet Theater was located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. It opened in the early 20s and closed in 1955.
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This theatre was know as the Comet no later than October 1935 (there was slight fire damage reported in the New York Times).
The Comet was demolished to build a large apartment building. Here’s the site of the Comet Theater. The Southeast corner of Gates and Malcom X Blvd:
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There is a listing for the Comet Theater at 852 Gates Avenue in the 1937 Brooklyn phone book. Jefferson 3-5529.
Thanks J.F. Lundy, 852 Gates Avenue is the correct address. The first c/o that I find for a motion picture theater at 852 Gates Avenue is dated August of 1928. It was an existing building so a theater was most likely already operating here prior to that date. Seating is given as 561. The owner was the 852 Gates Avenue Corp.
Is this the same Comet? View link
Saps….Thats the Bijou Cinema.
There was a Comic Movie House on Gates Avenue just off Reid Avenue when I was a kid.
The Comet was listed at 852 Gates in the 1940 phone book, but with a different phone number than 1937, GLenmor 2-4800.
That is the correct address as I posted back in August of 2006. The address above should be updated.
I believe this is the site of the old Comet:
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