Morningside Theatre

2135 8th Avenue,
New York, NY 10026

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Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 5, 2011 at 2:07 pm

Fixed the street view above. Looks like the theater building has been replaced by entirely new construction. I think we can call this one demolished.

Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 5, 2011 at 2:05 pm

Seems to have happened on more than a couple of theaters, Al. I wonder if there’s a fix available for that? Perhaps data stored somewhere than can somehow be retrieved. Of course, in a lot of cases, it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to start anew with the introductory comments.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on September 4, 2011 at 7:35 pm

I just noticed that the NEWS ABOUT THIS THEATRE link on the right of this page has a link from 2009 with a photo and information that dates this theatre back to at least 1908.

The intro has also gone missing.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on January 31, 2011 at 10:08 am

Does anyone know if this operated as the Spanish language Santurce in the early sixties?

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on January 31, 2011 at 10:07 am

“According to the 1925 New York City directory, the Morningside Theatre (a neighborhood theatre owned by Trocadero Amusements) was located 2139 8th Avenue.”

from BLUES OF A LIFETIME: The autobiography of Cornell Woolrich

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Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on January 31, 2011 at 9:53 am

The Morningside appears in a NYT ad for the wide release of “YOUNG DILLINGER” in May 1965. It was apparently still open or re-opened then.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on February 27, 2010 at 9:45 pm

A motion picture theatre was already at this location in 1917 according to the NYT.

googuse
googuse on May 16, 2009 at 1:46 pm

Located at 2135 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. There is a quick shot of the marquee in the 1970 film “Cotton Comes to Harlem”. It appeared to be a church at the time.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on July 15, 2008 at 10:48 am

This was already showing movies in 1919 according to a Paramount Week ad in the NYT.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on July 13, 2008 at 8:42 pm

There is a bank on the corner of Eighth (Frederick Douglass Avenue) and 116th, listed as 2149 Eighth. The rest of the block up to 115th is a very large hole in the ground. 2139 Eighth would have been part of that side of the street. Perhaps the theater is no more.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on November 14, 2007 at 7:05 am

The Morningside Theatre is listed as operating in editions of Film Daily Yearbook from at least 1926 though to 1957 and possibly beyond.