Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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No, Warren, I was NOT joking. Thanks for your answer.
Thanks, Lost Memory. I wonder, any relation to the Fox Theater that once stood near Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street in downtown Bklyn, near the Brooklyn Paramount Theater ?
Any ideas how I can get this thing rolling are welcome. Need to slow the process of a developer getting hold of the theater and ruining it before we are able to at Least TRY to take it over…………..
Once again Koch…sorry for the misunderstanding LOL AGAIN….
AL
*In regard to this matter, it is best to correspond through e-mail, rather than on a forum that is open to the public. Those interested should post their e-mails here. I’ll start…
You’re welcome, Lost Memory.
AL, I didn’t think you meant me. I merely wanted to disclaim personal responsibility for the sin of omission that you had mentioned.
no no PKOCH I wasn’t talking about YOU!! I was talking about someone who was supposed to help us in negotiating for the theater. I did not mean YOU. When I said SOMEONE i didn’t want to mention who that someone was LOL Turns out they found out about the developer looking to buy and appraising and didnt mention it when they first noted it. Now I am lagging behind a person with millions to whip the theater out from under us and not only screw the whole project up but possibly ruin the building itself……
Sorry for the misunderstanding……………..
AL
AL
no no PKOCH I wasn’t talking about YOU!! I was talking about someone who was supposed to help us in negotiating for the theater. I did not mean YOU. When I said SOMEONE i didn’t want to mention who that someone was LOL
Sorry for the misunderstanding……………..
AL
ALthe Filmguy, I did NOT have a conversation with one of the Diaz brothers. I have no idea who did.
In your response to your request, LostMemory, here’s a slight modification of a post of mine from six weeks ago :
“I was in one of the adjacent buildings, 11 a.m. Tuesday April 4 2006, buying pants : Carl’s Army and Navy Store, two doors to the east of the Ridgewood Theater. The two people who waited on me said the Ridgewood is non-busy on weekdays, but very busy on weekends and holidays, especially when the kids are off from school. The pretty young lady who works in Carl’s said the Ridgewood is dirty inside : the floor is sticky, and should be cleaned up.”
Perhaps Monica, the young lady who lives nearby, who started her own site on the Ridgewood Theater, and who first posted in 2004 near the top of this page, could be of some help.
The problem is someone neglected to tell me that they had a conversation with one of the diaz brothers…..A developer has been appraising the theater. Instead of getting a commitment from the owner for US to generate the money through funding for the aquisition, the building was let slip through the cracks. Now with a step forward we were hit with TWO steps back!! They still will not let me appeal to the community or meadia for help because they say it is too premature and someone may move quicker in swiping the theater and possibly our project idea. There is no way to be able to raise the kind of funds they want for the building in such a short time. THEN we STILL have to get the funding to start the project….
Now I am extremely pissed that someone didn’t do their job and because of this, the whole community will suffer by loosing this theater and the possibility of a great project.
Actually, most of them are “new” movies, but again, the short time it’s open is discouraging.
I hope you are all correct, but how can they possibly pull a profit on a schedule like their current one, listed below? Granted, Mission Imposssible is a new movie, but look at the scimpy times!
An American Haunting
Rated (PG-13) • 1 hr. 31 min.
6:15, 8:15
Goal! The Dream Begins
Rated (PG) • 1 hr. 57 min.
7:30
Hoot
Rated (PG) • 1 hr. 30 min.
6:00
Mission: Impossible III
Rated (PG-13) • 2 hrs. 6 min.
7:00
Poseidon
Rated (PG-13) • 1 hr. 38 min.
6:00, 8:05
Scary Movie 4
Rated (PG-13) • 1 hr. 23 min.
8:00
Thanks, Lost Memory. In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over till it’s over !”
Very aptly put, after the “handwriting on the wall” has been seen :
The Ridgewood Theater has been weighed in the scales and found wanting !
The nails in the coffin are beginning to be nailed shut.
Atlas Cinemas kicks of a week of $2 movies and $2 concessions with all money going to variety and other charities. I am going tonight to check out “8 Below”. The Diaz brothers should have been doing upgrades at the Ridgewood a long time ago not worrying now. All they ever did was drain the property with little upkeep. They got away with it because there was no competition.
Another good idea. Thanks.
Keith Richards and the Xpensive Winos worked out very well at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan near 74th and Bway, late February 1993.
I didn’t see them there, but I saw them about five months later on the PBS program, “Center Stage”, which was put together from several live shows at a similar theater in Chicago. Both the band and the audience looked like they were having a great time.
Ok first….I doubt the owner will let us use the theater to hold a fundraiser towards buying it LOL
Also, we plan to restore that live room again, anyway. We need to be able to hold a fundraiser(s) outside of the theater itself. LOL
I am going to see if it’s ok to go public with our idea and then I am going to talk to the papers.
If my organization is going to get a hold of the theater and bring some life into it, we have to do it ASAP. Time to make some noise………….
AL
If I could see Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones perform at the Ridgewood Theater for $ 100 or less, and actually SEE them, not just little stick figures seen a quarter of a mile away, across an eighty thousand seat staidum, through binoculars, and hear them at a comfortable volume, I would pay that much and go.
Good idea, Lost Memory. Every little bit helps, and it seems like the Ridgewood Theater needs every little bit of help it can get nowadays. Also, the return of us native boomers to Ridgewood for such a concert may assist in, and would be symbolic of, the gentrification of Ridgewood.
The ridgewood theater is still functioning, but God knows for how long. We are working hard on trying to take it over. We already are in the process of starting some of the other programs involved at a seperate location for now. But we are trying to move swiftly. We were thinking as well, to hold a few fundraisers as well, so we have some starting capital to make it more enticing to take it over. Beats waiting for government funding to go through. At least we will know it’s safe. We are trying to figure out how we can get some fundraisers together, but it takes money to make money even for not-for-profit and we just started our for the purpose of saving the theater and taking it over and giving it a way to survive. Our project can do that.
Any ideas are welcome…..We need the community’s backing on this….
Hopefully we will be able to go public soon and I can talk to the papers and that will help out our project on this end….
AL
As was discussed, the Ridgewood Theater will NOT survive ala the status quo. They have the biggest competition to the theater present now since perhaps the RKO Madison and Oasis closed! The somewhat rundown Ridgewood will HAVE to clean up it’s act to keep customers. The attractiveness of a nearby, clean, brandnew, state of the art multiplex is enough of a draw to take away at least a good fraction of the Ridgewood’s current clientele. And the already struggling Ridgewood can’t afford to lose ANY patrons, much less a significant amount.
It doesn’t take much for people to go somewhere else. Like I said, when I lived only three blocks from the Ridgewood Theater in the 80’s and early 90’s, even I treked out of the neighborhood to other “cleaner” theaters.
This Friday is official opening of the Regal Atlas Multiplex. The Da Vinci Code is the first big title they’ll show. This week, starting today, a series of screenings for the neighborhood at the Atlas. Take advantage. Not good news for the viability of the Ridgewood unless it’s repositioned and reprogrammed and renovated a la Cobble Hill Cinemas, Kew Gardens Cinemas, or similar morphing.
This Friday is official opening of the Regal Atlas Multiplex. The Da Vinci Code is the first big title they’ll show. This week, starting today, a series of screenings for the neighborhood at the Atlas. Take advantage. Not good news for the viability of the Ridgewood unless it’s repositioned and reprogrammed and renovated a la Cobble Hill Cinemas, Kew Gardens Cinemas, or similar morphing.
When does the Atlas multiplex open ?
Yes, thankfully it is open, but unfortunately I fear not for long unless the management does something other than the status quo once Atlas opens. And as it stands, an evening schedule only is still not a good sign as to the health of the theater, ,however, still better than the alternative.