Niblo Garden Theatre
170th Street and 3rd Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10456
170th Street and 3rd Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10456
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A Theatre Historical Society card cites a July 23, 1910 Bronx Star article saying that the annex at Niblo’s Gardens on 170th Street was to be converted into an airdome moving picture theater.
Address should be 170th Street and Third Avenue.
Niblo Garden Theatre was the name once used by an indoor house opened in 1870 as Zeltner’s Hall, but which later became known as the Bronx Lyceum. The building was adjacent to a large pleasure garden and picnic park originally operated as an adjunct of Zeltner’s brewery, located across the street. The complex appears to have been renamed Niblo Gardens sometime after an earlier complex of the same name, located in Manhattan, was closed and demolished in 1895.
The airdome was likely built on part of the pleasure garden site, and it may be that its opening under the name Niblo Garden Theatre was what occasioned the renaming of the indoor theater to Bronx Lyceum.