rhett. the premiere (excuse the spelling if it’s incorrect) the premiere of the Damon Wayons movie “MO MOney” was there and I don’t know of hand but there were many more there.
Saps! the spelling is definatley correct it doesn’t turn up in your search then you have to look for it by chain that of which is R.K.O. CENTURY THEATRES. Or look it up under single screen cinemas which may be a broader search but the spelling is definatley correct!
yes it’s true they used to keep them open during the intermission and close and open them right before the presentation for what reason I don’t know. Now during the intermission they show slides like most modern multiplexes. Those large golden curtains don’t move at all now. They probaly close them with special engagements like premieres or exclusive re-issues
Oh and Vincent I’m definatley in agreement of razing that monstosity of a building next door that definatley has no historical/architectual value. yes they can get rid of that too the replace a lot of grand old theatres with hotels, and condos these days as if New York needs that much more residential space.
Vincent. I’ve been to all of those theatres you’ve mentioned with the exception of the above mentioned Astor HOtel. and yes granted it is a modern building with no historical and definely no architectual value but in an age of the impersonal and unattractive multiplexes that are springing up all over the city it’s a treasure to have at least one or two singled screened cinemas that are kept up nice to see event films without another films sound leaking into your auditorium.So yes one less singled screen is a tradgedy for me even if they twin or multiplex this theatre like they did the Rivoli,Strand,Criterion even the State as early as 1968 is as good as a theatre being razed because sometimes you desroy the intregrity of a theatre building.
Rhet, when you go on that site again and see the menu, click the french version at the top above the american flag and then click New York it’s definatley there try it and let me know if it doesn’t work i’ll walk you through it you just gotta see these pictures.
This theatre had a decent sized screen even though with a balcony it was still a small cinema. At the time that I visited this theatre it was near the end of it’s life, it switched to a first run policy sometimes It featured art films. But I enjoyed seeing “Shoot to Kill” there I also viewed “the Good Son” there but at that time the balcony section rattled as people walked up and down the stairs.But I won’t take that from it . It was a pretty good cinema.
It’s good that they are giving this cinema another chance it deserves a chance too bad it will probably open as a quad I think this theatre was best as a twin. The screens were nice when they were a twin they were alittle smaller as a quad but nonetheless it great that it’s reoponing and not going to used as retail space and yes i’m still eagerly awainting it’s grand reopening.
This theatre opened if i’m not mistaken from information i’ve recently found opened in the late 1920’s it was a single screen until the mid to late 70’s when it whent straight to a four screen cinema it had decent sound for a single screen to quad conversion but some times in the downstairs cinemas the sound leaked but aside from that had some nice elements to especially when it first reopened as a quad. It declined over the years. it’s now opened as a Moddell sporting good store with no sign of this once magnificent moviehouse but the stripped marquee reading Modell’s. and more retail space is being made in the areas which housed the screens and front auditorium areas of cinemas 1 and 2 down front.
This theatre was opened around 1919 and closed around the summer or fall of 1985. and was a single screen cinema all of it’s life as a cinema it now as before mentioned operates as a church and has since 1986. there is a site that shows current photos of the interior and it looks as if much of the interior is still in tact of couse except for the screen. and probably the projection booth which was housed under the balcony.
The original gold and brown color scheme was common for the more modern Loew’s theatres of the 80’s then as the new millenium came they changed their color scheme to red and grey featured in such theatres in the area as the Loew’s Kips Bay, 34th st (the new one on the west side, the Astor Plaza, E-walk 42nd, and the Tower East uptown).
The theatre building is not demolished I passed it one month ago it housed a baptist church and if i’m not mistaken it is still operated as such today.
The theatre is now the home of the Pilcgrim Baptist Church from looking inside from the door on the Broadway entrance it looks like some of the interior elements were spared. i’ll soon go inside investigate and post my findings.
I may be confused with another theatre that Walter Reade owned that was sold to Cineplex Odeon which in turn renamed it Biograph Cinema. is this the same theatre, because that theatre if it’s the same one it became an art house when Cineplex operated it and renovated it only to close it down only a few years later. I saw a couple of private screenings there. This theatre was gutted and reopened as an Associated Mortan Willams supermarket with absoulutley no trace of movie theatre inside.
Richard would it be a problem for you to e-mail me those pictures becuase I can’t find them anywhere especially those photos of house 2 I would appreciate it only if you could or would at
I didn’t really get to enjoy this theatre that much I saw “Star Trek4” and Eddie Murphy’s “Golden Child there and it became one of my favorites I loved that big entrance and marquee that graced the base of the scyscrapper just as I was waiting for the weekend to see the film "critical condition” with Richard Pryor it closed down on me with the tittle still on the marquee i was sorely dissapointed as I made this theatre my second home I mean I would sit back and get lost in that canervous theatre 2 upstairs which was the former balcony. I would sit in this theatre during intermission and imagine my self on that screen. I missed this theatre so much I watch them demolish it it was like losing a love one. For a coulpe of weeks from the 46th street side I watched in horror as my favorite section of this thetre was being dismantled. does any body got any interior shots of this theatre or know of any links that show interior or exterior of this this theatre. I had a picture of this cinema on that I got from an old photo site of times square but i lost it. It’ll be greatly appreciated.
downstairs theatre had a deep curved screen the curtains opened and closed after each presentaion and just like the Strand the upstairs theatre, theatre 2 was situated on a large stage that covered the orchestra section of the cinema. This was common for most single screen theatres that were converted. THe Rivoli retained it’s curved screen after twinning but it was only downstairs and it remained that way until the theatre was shuttered in 86.
yeah that was tripple tragedy they razed them at the same time There was a warning for the Rivoli but I think that year the State and the Strand which was called Cinerama twin and Warner twin in my lifetime closed without warning. I used to cut school to see movies at this theatre I loved the other two but this theatre was the only one at that time that would let me in at school hours I would spend all half the day gazing at that deeply curved screen in theatre one if a movie that I wanted to see played in theatre 2 I wouldn’t see it there. It was named United Artists twin at the time of closing.
this theatre is beautiful as far as modern multiplexes go. It’s very clean and intimate when it first opened I saw “Seige” in theatre 1 which was big and (I know i’m a bit obsessive with this) but the curtains even closed which no longer exists in Brooklyn I can vouch for that, but that quickly changed when they added 2 more cinemas in the complex going from 6 to 8 screens it still was a large cinema with the conversion a modern multiplex nicely done.
rhett. the premiere (excuse the spelling if it’s incorrect) the premiere of the Damon Wayons movie “MO MOney” was there and I don’t know of hand but there were many more there.
Saps! the spelling is definatley correct it doesn’t turn up in your search then you have to look for it by chain that of which is R.K.O. CENTURY THEATRES. Or look it up under single screen cinemas which may be a broader search but the spelling is definatley correct!
yes it’s true they used to keep them open during the intermission and close and open them right before the presentation for what reason I don’t know. Now during the intermission they show slides like most modern multiplexes. Those large golden curtains don’t move at all now. They probaly close them with special engagements like premieres or exclusive re-issues
Oh and Vincent I’m definatley in agreement of razing that monstosity of a building next door that definatley has no historical/architectual value. yes they can get rid of that too the replace a lot of grand old theatres with hotels, and condos these days as if New York needs that much more residential space.
Vincent. I’ve been to all of those theatres you’ve mentioned with the exception of the above mentioned Astor HOtel. and yes granted it is a modern building with no historical and definely no architectual value but in an age of the impersonal and unattractive multiplexes that are springing up all over the city it’s a treasure to have at least one or two singled screened cinemas that are kept up nice to see event films without another films sound leaking into your auditorium.So yes one less singled screen is a tradgedy for me even if they twin or multiplex this theatre like they did the Rivoli,Strand,Criterion even the State as early as 1968 is as good as a theatre being razed because sometimes you desroy the intregrity of a theatre building.
Rhet, when you go on that site again and see the menu, click the french version at the top above the american flag and then click New York it’s definatley there try it and let me know if it doesn’t work i’ll walk you through it you just gotta see these pictures.
This theatre had a decent sized screen even though with a balcony it was still a small cinema. At the time that I visited this theatre it was near the end of it’s life, it switched to a first run policy sometimes It featured art films. But I enjoyed seeing “Shoot to Kill” there I also viewed “the Good Son” there but at that time the balcony section rattled as people walked up and down the stairs.But I won’t take that from it . It was a pretty good cinema.
It’s good that they are giving this cinema another chance it deserves a chance too bad it will probably open as a quad I think this theatre was best as a twin. The screens were nice when they were a twin they were alittle smaller as a quad but nonetheless it great that it’s reoponing and not going to used as retail space and yes i’m still eagerly awainting it’s grand reopening.
This theatre opened if i’m not mistaken from information i’ve recently found opened in the late 1920’s it was a single screen until the mid to late 70’s when it whent straight to a four screen cinema it had decent sound for a single screen to quad conversion but some times in the downstairs cinemas the sound leaked but aside from that had some nice elements to especially when it first reopened as a quad. It declined over the years. it’s now opened as a Moddell sporting good store with no sign of this once magnificent moviehouse but the stripped marquee reading Modell’s. and more retail space is being made in the areas which housed the screens and front auditorium areas of cinemas 1 and 2 down front.
This theatre was opened around 1919 and closed around the summer or fall of 1985. and was a single screen cinema all of it’s life as a cinema it now as before mentioned operates as a church and has since 1986. there is a site that shows current photos of the interior and it looks as if much of the interior is still in tact of couse except for the screen. and probably the projection booth which was housed under the balcony.
The original gold and brown color scheme was common for the more modern Loew’s theatres of the 80’s then as the new millenium came they changed their color scheme to red and grey featured in such theatres in the area as the Loew’s Kips Bay, 34th st (the new one on the west side, the Astor Plaza, E-walk 42nd, and the Tower East uptown).
I beleive it’s stil operating as a multiplex hidden in the hylan plaza mall complex.
correction! pardon me I don’t think it was ever a triplex. when it closed it was a twin.
I think this theatre was a twin if i’m not mistaken. I don’t think it was ever a twin.
The theatre building is not demolished I passed it one month ago it housed a baptist church and if i’m not mistaken it is still operated as such today.
The theatre is now the home of the Pilcgrim Baptist Church from looking inside from the door on the Broadway entrance it looks like some of the interior elements were spared. i’ll soon go inside investigate and post my findings.
it was a huge cinema even as a twin.
thanks for painting that picture of that theatre for me i’ve never visited this cinema as a single screen.
I may be confused with another theatre that Walter Reade owned that was sold to Cineplex Odeon which in turn renamed it Biograph Cinema. is this the same theatre, because that theatre if it’s the same one it became an art house when Cineplex operated it and renovated it only to close it down only a few years later. I saw a couple of private screenings there. This theatre was gutted and reopened as an Associated Mortan Willams supermarket with absoulutley no trace of movie theatre inside.
the current new Loew’s State is a terrible substitution for the original which is the same stunt they pulled on the Loew’s Orphuem, uptown.
Richard would it be a problem for you to e-mail me those pictures becuase I can’t find them anywhere especially those photos of house 2 I would appreciate it only if you could or would at
I didn’t really get to enjoy this theatre that much I saw “Star Trek4” and Eddie Murphy’s “Golden Child there and it became one of my favorites I loved that big entrance and marquee that graced the base of the scyscrapper just as I was waiting for the weekend to see the film "critical condition” with Richard Pryor it closed down on me with the tittle still on the marquee i was sorely dissapointed as I made this theatre my second home I mean I would sit back and get lost in that canervous theatre 2 upstairs which was the former balcony. I would sit in this theatre during intermission and imagine my self on that screen. I missed this theatre so much I watch them demolish it it was like losing a love one. For a coulpe of weeks from the 46th street side I watched in horror as my favorite section of this thetre was being dismantled. does any body got any interior shots of this theatre or know of any links that show interior or exterior of this this theatre. I had a picture of this cinema on that I got from an old photo site of times square but i lost it. It’ll be greatly appreciated.
downstairs theatre had a deep curved screen the curtains opened and closed after each presentaion and just like the Strand the upstairs theatre, theatre 2 was situated on a large stage that covered the orchestra section of the cinema. This was common for most single screen theatres that were converted. THe Rivoli retained it’s curved screen after twinning but it was only downstairs and it remained that way until the theatre was shuttered in 86.
yeah that was tripple tragedy they razed them at the same time There was a warning for the Rivoli but I think that year the State and the Strand which was called Cinerama twin and Warner twin in my lifetime closed without warning. I used to cut school to see movies at this theatre I loved the other two but this theatre was the only one at that time that would let me in at school hours I would spend all half the day gazing at that deeply curved screen in theatre one if a movie that I wanted to see played in theatre 2 I wouldn’t see it there. It was named United Artists twin at the time of closing.
this theatre is beautiful as far as modern multiplexes go. It’s very clean and intimate when it first opened I saw “Seige” in theatre 1 which was big and (I know i’m a bit obsessive with this) but the curtains even closed which no longer exists in Brooklyn I can vouch for that, but that quickly changed when they added 2 more cinemas in the complex going from 6 to 8 screens it still was a large cinema with the conversion a modern multiplex nicely done.