The New Howard was indeed on 159th ROAD, which runs for only 1 block between Coleman Square and 102nd Street. Google ‘No. 1 Auto Body’ or ‘Sal’s Food Market,’ which now occupy the building, and you will see they have a 159th Road address. 159th Avenue is one block north, where the post office was then and still is.
We moved to Howard Beach in 1963, so I didn’t get too many opportunities to enjoy the New Howard before it closed. I remember seeing “Kings of the Sun” there, the Native-Americans-vs-Mayans action movie with Yul Brynner and George Chakiris, and I also remember that for years afterward the marquee still advertised “The Prize” with a Saturday matinee of “Zotz!” the comedy fantasy with Tom Poston.
I also remember Fr. Harrigan and his “sermons” complaining about worldly issues (such as his denunciation of sex education as a “Swedish communist plot”), so I’m not surprised to read that he preached against the management of the New Howard.
The New Howard was indeed on 159th ROAD, which runs for only 1 block between Coleman Square and 102nd Street. Google ‘No. 1 Auto Body’ or ‘Sal’s Food Market,’ which now occupy the building, and you will see they have a 159th Road address. 159th Avenue is one block north, where the post office was then and still is.
We moved to Howard Beach in 1963, so I didn’t get too many opportunities to enjoy the New Howard before it closed. I remember seeing “Kings of the Sun” there, the Native-Americans-vs-Mayans action movie with Yul Brynner and George Chakiris, and I also remember that for years afterward the marquee still advertised “The Prize” with a Saturday matinee of “Zotz!” the comedy fantasy with Tom Poston.
I also remember Fr. Harrigan and his “sermons” complaining about worldly issues (such as his denunciation of sex education as a “Swedish communist plot”), so I’m not surprised to read that he preached against the management of the New Howard.
Photo taken May 2, 1922.