Cinema Kings Highway
711 Kings Highway,
Brooklyn,
NY
11223
711 Kings Highway,
Brooklyn,
NY
11223
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Brandt Theaters
Architects: Benjamin Schlanger
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Jewel Theatre
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News About This Theater
- Dec 8, 2011 — Come for the smut, but stay for the classics
The 650-seat Jewel Theatre, which stands a few blocks west of the Kingway Theatre, was opened in 1936. It later became a foreign film house until it was damaged by fire in the 1960’s.
It was completed renovated and reopened as the Cinema Kings Highway with an exclusive Brooklyn showing of "Thoroughly Modern Millie." But in the late-1960’s, the owner found he could make a lot more money running XXX and played "He and She" there for over a year.
The story goes that he ran off with all of the profits and the theatre fell into a dispute over the ownership. Before video shut it down, it was split into two theatres, with regular porn running downstairs and gay porn running in the small balcony. It reopened as a triplex, featuring XXX straight porn in one theatre, gay porn in the second, and obscure foreign classics in the third. This was basically the programming policy. By 2017 it was operating with 4 screens. It was closed on March 16, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The owner sold the building in the summer of 2021 and the closure became permanent.
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I don’t know of any other adult theaters in NY City.
I called the Fair and the person who answered said there are no plans to close the theater.
thanks
Garth you should also indicate that on the Fair site.
Good idea.
I posted it on their site. Someone on there says they saw it on Reddit, I searched Reddit for Fair Theater and nothing came up
The Fair is definitely open. Called them yesterday. They do allow crossdressers… I haven’t been there since COVID but will visit over the weekend. Also going to dress. 👠
Some of the best years of my youth were spent at this theatre. Is there another adult theatre close to NYC? There’s got to be another place like this theatre once was. Does anyone know?
The Fair is definitely open. Astoria B'lvd and 100th Street, Queens
sure miss this place…had some “nice” times here…looking at the photos here brings back many memories…meloncholy