Regent Theatre
1215 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11216
1215 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11216
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Previously operated by: Brandt Theaters
Previous Names: Slave #1 Theatre
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This small theater sits on Fulton Street near Bedford Avenue. In its later years, it was a grind house.
After the Regent Theater closed, it was sold and renamed the Slave One, complete with an African-motif marquee. It showed movies for a brief while, before closing in 1998. It has since occassionally been used as a meeting hall for African American issues, but after several years sitting vacant, it was demolished in mid-December 2016.
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This theater is about to be auctioned on August 9th at 2:30 PM:
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/07/foreclosure-auction-set-for-slave-theater/
The news today is that there is a grass roots effort to save and restore this theater. There is a cool photo on the link below:
News that Bed-Stuy’s historic Slave Theater was headed for the auction block prompted two theater professionals to form the non-profit New Brooklyn Theater and take to Kickstarter to try to raise $200,000 to buy the building. Brownstoner notes that the individuals have no apparent ties to Slave Theater, but they plan to restore the building and keep it as a performing arts venue for Brooklyn artists. They estimate the $200K to be enough for the downpayment, and they think the full renovation should cost between $3.5 and $5 million. “We are deliberately foregoing other more traditional development formulas that would require unnecessary and costly plans,” they write. “Instead we turn to you to help spark Brooklyn interest in the restoration of this landmark space.” So far, 62 backers have pledged more than $15,000.
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/08/09/200k_kickstarter_campaign_to_buy_bedstuys_slave_theater.php#reader_comments
Hmmm…thanks Chuck. I’ve never had that happen before.
New Brooklyn Theater is incorporated to restore the theater and turn it into a 3-stage performing arts center. You can learn more about our efforts at www.newbrooklyntheater.com. We have launched a crowd-funding campaign at bit.ly/NBTKickstarter and need to continue the momentum as we now have 3 weeks left so please contribute and spread the word. Thank You, New Brooklyn Theater
Theater has been sold to a developer; conversion to condos rumored. New York Daily News article here.
Seeing this site brings back many memories. How many Saturdays and Sundays did I spend at the Regent theater watching the old ‘B’ movies, westerns of many of the old forgotten cowboy stars, The Bowery Boys (or East Side Kids) Charlie Chan movies. Many of these movies did not play at the first run movie houses. They also played Cab Calloway and Louis Jordan movies, great entertainment. Many of the first run films would wind up here a year or so after they played the first run movie theaters. When Bill Elliot would comment that he was a peaceable man all the kids would scream. Yes, it was only yesterday, another world, another time. Who remembers ‘Dirty Butch’.
There a campaign to save the Slave http://www.bkmag.com/2015/03/19/the-continuing-saga-of-the-slave-theater-gets-curiouser-and-curiouser/
Too late, Fred…
Here is the story on the demolition. This piece says that the building was essentially gone by December 2016.
No longer Standing its been torn down.