I grew up in Boro Park, and the Loew’s 46th street and the boro park theatre were my neighborhood movie palaces. A few years back me and my friend who also grew up there went into the furniture show that now occupies the theatre and had a good look around making believe we were looking for furniture. A lot remained including the upstairs lounge and men’s room and the lobby. Of course it all looked smaller than I remember it. I moved to Manhattan in 1967 but now I’m back in Brooklyn. The photos of the theatre and the neighborhood surrounding it were heartbreaking. The area was never beautiful but now it really looks horrible. My father owned a luncheonette on 43th and New Utrecht ave.
I grew up in Boro Park, and the Loew’s 46th street and the boro park theatre were my neighborhood movie palaces. A few years back me and my friend who also grew up there went into the furniture show that now occupies the theatre and had a good look around making believe we were looking for furniture. A lot remained including the upstairs lounge and men’s room and the lobby. Of course it all looked smaller than I remember it. I moved to Manhattan in 1967 but now I’m back in Brooklyn. The photos of the theatre and the neighborhood surrounding it were heartbreaking. The area was never beautiful but now it really looks horrible. My father owned a luncheonette on 43th and New Utrecht ave.