Knickerbocker Casino Theater

274 Knickerbocker Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11237

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Ken Roe
Ken Roe on February 15, 2024 at 10:48 am

Comfortably Cool: Many thanks for your informed reply. Case closed.

Comfortably Cool
Comfortably Cool on February 15, 2024 at 10:43 am

The Knickerbocker (originally Abbey’s) and Casino were neighboring “legit” playhouses on Broadway between 38th and 39th Street that were demolished in 1930 to make way for commercial buildings and lofts.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on February 14, 2024 at 1:40 pm

Lori, Unfortunately, I have not received an e-mail from you. The address and name of this theatre is definitely correct as being on Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn. It is listed as such in the well researched book “The Brooklyn Theatre Index Volume 1 authored by the late Cezar Del Valle. I cannot find any reference to the same named theatre or any other theatre in Manhattan at the address you give (looking at lists in 1914 and 1926). Do you have any dates of operation for the 1396 Broadway theatre?

Lori
Lori on February 14, 2024 at 10:19 am

I sent an e-mail to the admin of this site to tell them this is NOT on Knickerbocker Ave. The Knickerbocker Casino Theater was in Manhattan. He said he would change the listing but that has not happened. It was located at 1396 Broadway (and West 38th St.)

Bway
Bway on April 20, 2009 at 7:23 am

This theater would have been right on the opposite corner of the Willoughby Theater.

Bway
Bway on June 8, 2006 at 5:34 am

Lost, it appears to be space for two buildings when I drove by there, so yes, it should be (or have been in the past) a double lot.

Bway
Bway on October 7, 2004 at 11:52 am

Actually, it’s two stores in that photo, one is obscured by the awning of the Meat Market. The meat market is the corner, and the other one story store is right next to it, on the next lot, then the wooden apartments.

Bway
Bway on October 6, 2004 at 3:31 pm

I drove by the site of the Knickerbocker Casino Theater today, and interestingly although of course the theater is gone, there never was a “normal” apartments-over-stores building built there.
Here’s a photo of what’s on the site of the Casino now, a non-descript building that to me appears to date to the late 1920’s or early 1930’s going by the brickwork of the structure:

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