Screen grab added.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Filming A Scene From His Movie Debut, “Hercules In New York,” Outside Of The New Yorker Theater, 1969. (Cinematography By Leo Lebowitz.) Via Ruben Iglesias.
Good photo added of the Normal Theatre after closing.
Looks like it may have been a church briefly given the signage on the right.
Undated photo courtesy of Tim O'Neill.
1986 photo added, photo credit Stephen Harmon.
Circa 1930’s photo added, Ottendorfer Branch of the NYPL. Photo credit Victor Volnar/NYPL
1972 photo added, photo credit Henry Bonham Houchins.
1952 marquee photo added, photo credit Gordon Parks.
1978 photo as the Forum added, photo source unknown. Appears to be from a book.
1964 photo added, photo credit National Geographic Magazine.
1952 photo added, photo by Weegee (Arthur Fellig).
Screen grab added. Arnold Schwarzenegger Filming A Scene From His Movie Debut, “Hercules In New York,” Outside Of The New Yorker Theater, 1969. (Cinematography By Leo Lebowitz.) Via Ruben Iglesias.
Undated marquee photo added, photo credit Stephen Harmon.
December 1969 photo added, photo credit Amalie Rothschild, via New York Historical.
Scale model added of the Roxy auditorium displayed at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Photo credit and copy Jeffrey Nickora.
10/28/54 photo credit Frank Larson. Website below. Copy & paste to view this and his other works.
http://franklarsonphotos.com/
1984 photo added, photo credit Ghislian Bonneau. Pussycat on left.
1984 photo added, photo credit Ghislian Bonneau.
Circa 1940’s photo added, photo credit Andreas Feininger.
1953 photo added, photo credit Frank Larson.
Three 1960 images added courtesy of Monique Carboni. Her mother is pictured in the exterior photo.
Two photos added. 06/06/1944 photo copyright Howard Hollem. 1959 photo copyright Dave Gelinas.
1941 photo added credit Walter Payton.
Good photo added of the Normal Theatre after closing. Looks like it may have been a church briefly given the signage on the right. Undated photo courtesy of Tim O'Neill.
Reverend Lincoln Scott who saved the building has died. Copy & paste to view.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-met-lincoln-scott-obit-0902-20150902-story.html
2003 photo added credit & copyright Scott Hamilton.
Slightly clearer version of the Riviera profile photo added via Len Laurro.
Newspaper image added courtesy of Len Laurro.
Photo added credit Len Laurro.