Tivoli Theatre
365 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11201
365 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn,
NY
11201
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Here is a view from circa 1935 showing marquee from above.
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?52027
Here is an earlier photo showing previous marquee circa 1935.
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?52026
Sorry, here is link that was omitted from above posting.
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?52024
Here is a photo of the Tivoli Theater’s Fulton St main entrance in 1940. The marquee, new in 1938, can be seen to the left of the Fulton Street El tracks from the platform of the Boro Hall Station, taken probably on June 1, 1940, which was Unification Day. The last train left Fulton Ferry earlier that day at 12:01 AM for ENY when the City of New York took over operation of all BMT lines and abandoned the Fulton and 5th Avenue El lines.
Thank you, ken mc. The link to the 1954 photos are a help.
I don’t think the earlier links are working. Here is a 1954 photo of the Tivoli:
http://tinyurl.com/jdnvh
From “J.F. Lundy” :
“The Tivoli was located in downtown Brooklyn near Borough Hall. As has been stated by others, it was first known as Hyde & Behmans Theater with its entrance on Adams Street marked by a large vertical.
“The street pattern has been greatly altered since the early 1950’s in this part of Brooklyn. Back in the old days, Fulton Street ran westward to a point immediately beyond Adams Street where it veered northward past Borought Hall to Fulton Ferry. Adams Street ran northward from Fulton Street and intersected Myrtle Avenue one block north of Fulton.
“On the west side of Adams, three quarters of the way up the block from Fulton, was the original entrance to the theater. Immediately behind and to the south of the theater was the large Arbuckle Building situated on Fulton Street after it turned northward, facing Borough Hall Park.To the north of the Arbuckle building were several smaller multi storey buidings, all with store fronts housing various types of retail trade.
“In August of 1925 a sign went up on the third floor of one of these buidings about two stores north of the Arbuckle. It announced that the building would be remodeled to provide a new entrance for the Olympic Theater, formerly the Hyde & Behmans, to open on Labor Day. The theater would seat 2000 people. The building housed the Peterson Lunch Room with a "Formal Attire Clothing Rental” business on the second floor.
“This theater was later renamed the Tivoli. Century Circuit ran it in the 1940’s.
Warren…You are correct that the Tivoli must have had two entrances. A blowup of the marquee of the March 18th,‘54 photo reveals not the name of the double feature playing at the time but…NOW TWO HITS…BOX OFFICE OPEN AROUND THE CORNER ON FULTON STREET.
Tivol1 viewed from steps of Brooklyn Boro Hall March 1954
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Tivoli Theater as it looked on March 18, 1954
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A circa 1935 photo of the Tivoli which is behind the Fulton El in this link:
Here is a link to a photograph of the Tivoli Theatre.
The address of the Tivoli Theater in downtown Brooklyn NY is given as 365 Fulton St. at : www.cinematour.com, apparently where Fulton St. intersected Myrtle Avenue, when Fulton extended all the way north to the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, (this north-south segment of what was once Fulton Street is now named Cadman Plaza)and also when Myrtle Avenue extended far west enough to intersect Fulton St. there, which it no longer does.
The western end of Myrtle Avenue was first moved east to Jay Street by the construction of NYCTA headquarters in the 1950’s, and further east in the 1990’s to Flatbush Avenue by the construction of the new MetroTech Center.
The Tivoli Theater appears in the middle photo on p. 47 of “Unifying The Subways” by Frederick A. Kramer. The view is apparently east on Myrtle Avenue from its intersection with Fulton St. The photo is of the Adams St. station of the BMT Brooklyn elevated, which crosses Myrtle Avenue and runs horizontally across the photo. The Tivoli appears at the extreme right of the photo. The marquee is an arc of a circle, concave to the front of the theater. On the portion facing directly across Myrtle Avenue one can read : AT 10 A.M. NEW SHOW TUES SAT. NITE. On the portion facing the point of view (camera) one can read : NOW SH[OWING] O DE HAVIL[AND] GOVERNMENTCHOS[EN ?]
The caption of this photo reads : “This view of the Adams Street station was taken looking east on Myrtle Avenue from Boro Hall.”