City Theatre
114 E. 14th Street,
New York,
NY
10003
114 E. 14th Street,
New York,
NY
10003
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Previously operated by: Fox Circuit
Architects: Thomas White Lamb
Styles: French Renaissance
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The City Theatre was built for William Fox in 1909, and was the first theatre to be designed by architect Thomas White Lamb. In the 1930’s it was given an Art Deco style makeover. It was closed around March 1952.
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William Gabel
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Judging by the above picture this theatre looked really nice on the outside. I found an ad from sometime in 1948 and the two films on the program were very exploitation looking. “Panic” promised sex, suspense and murder and the second feature was called “Fiesta”. No studio is in the ad but I’m sure it was Monogram or Republic.
This disappears from the New York Times movie ad pages around March 16, 1952.
A great shot from 1938
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What a shame. All those years that I worked at the Academy of Music I never knew that it was ever there. Based on what I saw in the picture and seeing the alley way and parking lot it does look like it could have been a theatre there. Dang all that time and I never knew.
Nice 1938 photo of City Theatre Robert R.
Ad for the newsreel theatre in April 1942, after America entered the war.
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EcRocker, you are right! OMFG!I know that alley intimately. Rode my bike to connect 14th and 13th St ALL the time and I NEVER KNEW!! Went to the Academy of Music, Palladium (concerts AND disco) many times; and also went to Luchows when it was a “club” at the end….Lived at 14th and 2nd, then 11th St. That alley and the parking lot would be an exact footprint of a movie theatre!
What’s that burlesque theatre on Irving Place and 13th street, seen in the first photo…?
The Irving Place Theatre on 15th Street. Showed movies in 1916 and then again from 1939 to 1952.
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This was designed by Thomas Lamb for William Fox in 1909. According to the New York Times it was the first theater building Lamb ever designed. Pity it’s no longer around.