Royal Theatre

A 1913 Sanborn map of Newburgh shows “Moving Pictures” at 13 S. Colden Street, a few doors south of 1st street. There were no other theaters between that and Broadway, so that one must have been the Royal. Unfortunately, neither Google Maps nor Apple Maps nor Bing maps will show that address in its proper location, all three displacing it several blocks south. Addresses work fine on Water street, one block east, but fail on Colden Street. The entire neighborhood from the west side of Water Street to Grand Street has been ravaged by an Urban Removal project. The Royal’s site is now part of a park.