@Al Alvarez, that’s actually incorrect. It’s a holdover from how Queens developed and how its post offices were organized before it joined NYC in 1898. Queens was a collection of separate towns, villages, and Long Island City, each with its own identity and postal arrangements. Those local names survived consolidation, so addresses still use names such as Astoria, Flushing, Jamaica, or Ridgewood. That’s unlike Brookly, in which all the towns had already consolidated into one independent city before joining New York.
If you look at the THSA website on the Manhattan index cards (card 186) it says Pollard started work on a theater at 4023 Broadway that wasn’t completed, but De Rosa built the Uptown at 4037.
https://historictheatres.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MM-Manhattan-Index-Cards.pdf
As I said, I’ve been in there and if you see the dome and the proscenium you’d immediately recognize it as a De Rosa theater.
@Al Alvarez, that’s actually incorrect. It’s a holdover from how Queens developed and how its post offices were organized before it joined NYC in 1898. Queens was a collection of separate towns, villages, and Long Island City, each with its own identity and postal arrangements. Those local names survived consolidation, so addresses still use names such as Astoria, Flushing, Jamaica, or Ridgewood. That’s unlike Brookly, in which all the towns had already consolidated into one independent city before joining New York.
@tdickensheets that’s a different Egyptian Theatre that is still standing on Capital Hill. This one was in the U District
I added a photo from May 2023 when it was abandoned but mostly intact
This theater is demoished. The entire block is gone
If you look at the THSA website on the Manhattan index cards (card 186) it says Pollard started work on a theater at 4023 Broadway that wasn’t completed, but De Rosa built the Uptown at 4037. https://historictheatres.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MM-Manhattan-Index-Cards.pdf
As I said, I’ve been in there and if you see the dome and the proscenium you’d immediately recognize it as a De Rosa theater.
@Joe Vogel I’ve been inside this theater. It looks like a Eugene de Rosa theater, and various lists of De Rosa theaters have him as the architect.