Loew's Victoria Theatre
233 W. 125th Street,
New York,
NY
10027
233 W. 125th Street,
New York,
NY
10027
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Hello. Does anyone know how this place was cut up. Thanks.
I do have an organ pipe from the Victoria. Given to me by one of the demolition crew. My plan is to clone the theater back from this wooden organ pipe.
What went wrong with Movie Center 5 that it only lasted 4 years?
Please update, theatre closed January 4, 1990
Uploaded a ad when it became Movie Center 5 on 125th Street
I mean its all nice this plan they have. But the 1500 seat theatre is saved, which is great, but the 2300 seat theatre gets demolished. What a shame.
What remains of the Victoria Theatre will provide two new performance spaces for the nearby Apollo Theatre, according to a report in The New York Times. Link here
As of last week, the Loew’s Victoria is demolished except for the entance lobby. The land that the theatre sat on is leveled to broken bricks laid out evenly. The bricks were from the ROSE Brick Co. I got a whole brick back in August and a half broken brick last week. Headline description should be changed to DEMOLISHED. Asta la vista!
I went to the Loew’s Victoria and the tryphons are still atop the facade. While this one goes, the Apollo next door is more stunning than ever. All new neon and other innovations. A beauty at night in neon. The Alahambra is also being fixed up (the Ballroom) and other amenities as stores, etc. etc. Lobby has been gutted and who knows what the auditorium looks like. 125th Street is getting a major overhaul (unlike Flatbush Avenue between Empire Blvd. to the Junction). Alas, only Thomas White Lambs Victoria Theatre will be gone. Money Talks and the monolith tower that will rise there is most unfitting to this block.
The two murals have been pulvarized. Demo inside first, then outside.
Another one into the dumpster. Really really sad
Interior demolition continues, a worker told me historic ledgers from Loew’s, marquee letters, seats (aisle standards from balcony were trashed into the dumpsters behind the building. NYCB permits show full demolition, however new photos of facade show a vertical sign saying Hotel Victoria (nice). A man walking by cried and I asked if he was OK. He said his mother brought him to the Loew’s Victoria in the 1950’s and he was sad that it was being demolished. Very, very sad! The hotel could have been built between 2nd & 3rd Avenue where a empty Pathmark sits. Who’s running the show, “Big pockets” who don’t care about history! The Victoria should have been saved on this three theatre block. It Could have beeb “the Kings” of Harlem.
I’m happy to see that my comment above was wrong and that the theatre is still standing. I had not recognized the back wall of the Apollo and confused that with the Victoria when I was checking last time. According to the 2016 aerial view and the street views of the front (2015) and back (2014) the theatre is indeed still standing.
1941 photo added credit Walter Payton.
This theater’s exterior is briefly shown in “Cotton Comes to Harlem” which was on Bounce TV Channel 41.3 a few weeks back and will likely be repeated a few more times as with all their films…
Thank goodness. Still hope it can be saved.
I’m saying that person is wrong, and the auditorium is still there. You can see it clearly on google maps (dated September 2014) or just look up the job permits on the New York City Department of Building’s website. There are demolition permits, but they have not been approved yet, so nothing has been demolished yet.
Matt, it was posted earlier the auditorium is demolishede. Are you saying it still there? Or just the lobby as has been previously posted.
The theater is still there. No construction work has started yet.
Nice nighttime shot of the marquee in the movie The Pawnbroker.
From the Google Street View from 126th street (dated September 2014) the auditorium has been demolished and the new tower (about 8 floors) has been built. The street view on 125th street (from 2013) shows the lobby portion of the Victoria still standing. I hope they keep the interior architecture.
Here is the direct link.
It’s working for me and it is the Victoria.
SAVE LOEW’S VICTORIA page on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Loews-Victoria/446620328709389
Also, Ed Solero, that is the box office but it is not a free standing one. It is still there though. The entry is rather small for such a large theater.