New Yorker Theatre
2409 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10024
2409 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10024
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everything I’ve read was that…
All 39 episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed at the DuMont Television Network’s Adelphi Theatre at 152 West 54th Street in Manhattan, which is a bit of a distance from here.
Where they filmed The Honeymooners in 1955-1956.
randytheicon, are you the former manager for the Walter Reade Organization?
Please update, became a twin on November 9, 1979 with New Yorker 1 at 390 and New Yorker 2 at 412 seats. Theatre closed May 16, 1985
The theater known as the New Yorker was opened in 1914. I guarantee that it did not have the Boak & Paris streamlined look as that was not a thing in 1914. Does anyone know if the Adelphi had a stage? Or who the original architects where?
Indeed, it was opened as the Adelphi. I just posted a photo from 1914.
Screen grab added. Arnold Schwarzenegger Filming A Scene From His Movie Debut, “Hercules In New York,” Outside Of The New Yorker Theater, 1969. (Cinematography By Leo Lebowitz.) Via Ruben Iglesias.
Saw a number of films at this theatre such Evil Under the Sun, All of Me, Turk 182, Fast Forward, Protocol, Sluggers Wife, I was there on the last day of operation for this theatre in spring of 1985 and the last movie I saw here before closing was Just One of the Guys.
Too bad not many of these twin theatres are not around in 2015
“Rocky Horror” played there in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and at one time had one of the country’s longest-running engagements of the movie. The official NYC “shadowcast” performed there briefly in early 1978 after the Waverly in the Village stopped showing the movie; however, the New Yorker’s “uptown clientele” weren’t as supportive as the Village fans. The New Yorker also hosted an ongoing run of “Shock Treatment,” the sequel to “Rocky Horror,” after its opening in late 1981. The re-release of “Mary Poppins” was in summer 1980, and the movie hasn’t had a general reissue since then.
It was twinned in 1979 by Walter Reade. I suspect the 150 seat balcony became a screen.
I went there one time in 1982 to see the re release of Mary Poppins and it was a twin than.
Just curious why the top header has it listed as 1 screen but the last photo in the photo section shows a picture that says A Walter Reade Twin Theatre. When was it twinned and how? Down the middle etc??
2 newly found photos taken in front of this theatre to add…
http://www.thelmagazine.com/imager/b/magnum/2243536/4592/sarris-hitch-new-yorker.jpg A. Sarris and Hitchcock
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/02/03/nyregion/03COVER/03COVER-articleLarge.jpg Ed Koch in 77
Can’t really make it out completely, but it reads something like “Closed visit our market at” such-and-such street “and Broadway” (the R in Broadway is missing from the marquee). Can’t make out the first two words on the last line of the marquee, but the line ends with “to the area.”
Thanks for the info. How bizarre. I couldn’t make out what was on the marquee but it didn’t look movie related.
Hey robboehm… The Japanese Garden was located several blocks to the north of the New Yorker, near 96th Street, and would not be visible in the shot above. The marquee you are looking at belonged to the former Stoddard Theatre, which had been closed and converted into the Garden Supermarket in the 1950’s. It was located on the next block to the north of the New Yorker, between West 89th and West 90th Streets.
In the background of the picture is the marquee of the Garden. Would this have been the Japanese Garden on CT or a theatre not on the site. I reviewed all the theatres named Garden. The Japanese Garden was on upper Broadway and the only possible match.
Another one gone.
Closed in May 1985 after a run of “JUST OF THE GUYS” and “A PASSAGE TO INDIA”.
This page has a 1959 magenta-tinted picture of The New Yorker’s marquee showing a triple-feature: View link
New book on Talbot theatres.
View link
Thanks. I also just remembered that they actually twinned the theater at some point. Remember it as a pretty slapdash job, like they just put in a wall dividing the auditorium and the seats, which were not realigned. At least, that’s how I remember it.
The theatre closed sometime in the 80’s. I saw a re release of mary poppins there in 1982.
When did the New Yorker Theatre close? An exhibit of hand-lettered posters for films that played there is currently on display in the gallery off the lobby of the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. According to that, the New Yorker ran from 1960 to 1973. This has to be wrong. I moved to NYC in January 1977, and attended many films at the New Yorker for several years. Could they have meant 1983?
I actually own the Coming Attractions art deco glass side piece of the theater. The workers were nice enough to deliver it to me!