Kings Theatre
1027 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11226
1027 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11226
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After a long absence, I am back on CinemaTreasures! Unfortunately, I lost my password and no matter how many attempts I made to reach CT, they never got back to me.
Anyway, there seems to be some doubt here on CT as to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s true intentions toward restoring and reopening the Loew’s Kings. I have talked
to Markowitz and he has assured me that he is indeed serious. He wants to see the theater
used as a Center for the Performing Arts and not become a multiplex, catering hall or some
kind of TV Production Studio facility.
As far as the theater owner, NYC Economic Development Corporation. They have received
bids and are reviewing their applications.
In fact, today, I was contacted today by the NY Daily News. They are researching a possible new article on the Kings and are very interested in any response to the RFEI (Request for Expression Of Interest). The News was told by EDC that the city plans to conduct a cost analysis and marketing study. This must be considered progress—-it’s slow—-but progress!
I just hope he does something. Brooklyn could use a real entertainment center, and, being an old vaudeville house, the Kings could do.
If I don’t get a response by Thursday, I will give him a call.
I would also like to be kept informed on this.
Hey Warren, I got an e-mail back from the NYEDC with a contact name and number. Rather than call him I sent a detail e-mail asking where the process stands on the redevelopment of the Kings so that I could keep the CT public up to date. I’ll post the response as soon as I hear back.
Don’t I know it! :–)
Nonetheless, I thought it was worth a shot.
I have just sent an e-mail to the New York Economic Development Corporation asking for the status of the Loew’s Kings redevelopment. Markowitz was supposed to make an announcement in July, but……………..
I’ll report back as soon as I get any news.
Memoirs of a Movie Palace will be shown on Saturday, September 15 at the Portage Theater in Chicago, IL as part of the “Preserving Palaces” documentary film festival, along with The Wizard of Austin Boulevard and Loew’s Paradise Theatre. The festival begins on Friday, September 14 with Uptown: Portrait of a Palace and Preserve Me a Seat (chronicling efforts to save the Indian Hills in Omaha, Gayety/Publix in Boston, DuPage in Lombard, and Villa in Salt Lake City). A theatre preservation discussion panel will follow the films on Saturday night. For complete information, visit www.portagetheater.org.
Dan, Dan, Dan.
That’s a very Nazi sounding name now that i think about it. Perhaps this was a hoax post?
Can anyone confirm or deny this astonishing claim that someone posted to the Across the Park blog:
“I understand that a developer has been found to rebuild and reopen the Loews Kings. It is a German company (Reichswerks) which specializes in urban areas. They have done similar work in Amsterdam and Naples. They will partner with an Amercian firm, possibly Disney, as this would be their first project in the USA.”
Posted by: Brooklyn Born | August 26, 2007 at 06:13 PM
Yeah, I live many states away. I wouldn’t make a trip to Brooklyn just to see the latest Broadway musical. I would, on the other hand, send a contribution to the theatre if someone ran a legitimate capital drive.
Just like LOEW’S KINGS, LOEW’S PARADISE has thousands of words on this website about restoring and reopening the theatre. Now at long last someone spent $4.5 million and reopened it with occasional live stage shows. However, I think I was the only person to post a message on the PARADIDE page saying we’d actually attended a show there since the reopening. I don’t live in the Bronx. It’s 525 miles round trip to the Bronx. My question is: for all the YACK! YACK! are any of you going to attend LOEW’S KINGS if it reopens, or are you all just empty barrels making noise?
brilliant. Thanks so much
brilliant. Thanks so much
I am urgently trying to find photos of the original architecture of Loew’s Kings Movie Theatre. It is for a book we are publishing on New York City and I would be really grateful if anyone could let me knoow of any photos they may have seen or know exist.
Many thanks…
Thanks, Warren
Is this the theatre I see close by when I get off the “B” train and exit at the west end of the Prospect Park station?
Guys, when is the next tour?
I darn well hope that they reopen the Kings
Do they ever.
I hear through the rumor mill that an announcement is expected to be made by Borough President Marty Markowitz in July regarding the future of The Kings. I’m assuming that means that the city will announce that a developer has been selected based of the RFP that the city requested back in the Fall of 2006. Let’s keep our fingers crossed! Markowitz was present the day that I toured the theater and he seemed genuinely determined that this theater be saved. Actions, however, speak louder than words.
Well said LuisV! I don’t think there’s much doubt that Brooklyn can handle a second performing arts center, but the hurdle is dealing with the sizeable capital investment required to get the Kings back in operation. And then finding a use for it that will pump in sufficient revenue to keep it going. Those aren’t small problems, but I share your optimism that the Kings can live again. Seems like many people are in favor of it, and very few opposed to it.
As I posted above in October, I was very surprised to see how nice the immediate area around the Kings actually was. As a lifelong New Yorker, I too had heard about how terrible the area was back in the 70’s and 80’s. On my walk from the subway station to the theater I did not spot a single empty storefront and the streets were clean and orderly. The only time I did see a gaping empty storefront was the reatil space attached to the King’s theater itself.
Brooklyn, and pretty much all of New York, has made incredible strides in the last 15 years. Anyone who hasn’t been to the “old neighborhoods” would be shocked to see what has happened in Park Slope, Williamsburg, Dumbo, Long Island City, Hell’s Kitchen, Harlem, The South Bronx, I could go on and on. A booming economy and the lowest crime rates since the early 60’s bode well for projects like the resurrection of The King’s. Surely, there is room in a borough of 2.6MM people for a second major performing arts center (after The Brooklyn Academy of Music).
I did not mean that in a literal way……