Chopin Theatre
910 Manhattan Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11222
910 Manhattan Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11222
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Could “The Mozart” have been the Rivoli Theater at the Knickerbocker Ave el station?
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Was the “Mozart” you are thinking of under the el section of Myrtle Ave, or past Wyckoff where there is no el?
The only other theaters I can think of in RIdgewood were the Glenwood, the Madison, The Ridgewood, The Parthenon (near Myrtle at Wyckoff), the Wagner.
I think there may have been a theater (or open air theater) at Seneca and Myrtle at one time many many years where the C-Town and Banco Popular is now (which used to be the Chase manhattan Bank)
Are you sure your not thinking of the Wagner?
The American was at 910 Manhattan Avenue near Greenpoint Avenue.
This was the American Theatre.
I saw a double feature of “Cry Of The Wild” and the short, “Bigfoot”, there, with a friend, a Greenpoint native and resident, in January 1974.
The whole theatre was never demolished. Just gutted it became a Roy Rogers until they closed, then it became a Burger King, then Popeyes Fried Chicken opened there also.As of today its just Burger King at this location.Littke do people know, there was also an upstairs section to the American Eagle theatre (the Chopins former name). That upstairs section only accessable by stairs, was used as a bingo hall…when I was a kid, me and my friends would carry shopping carts up the stairs and roll them down.Somewhere after the movie closed down, the bingo hall closed too.Currently there is a polish nightclub there: The Exit.
Back in 1983, DC Cab was playing here for about 2 months.
I remember it well. A very small place. I saw Midnight Express, some Sinbad movie, Friday the 13.