Crotona Theatre
453 E. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
453 E. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10457
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This theater is being used by a warehouse and fabrication entity in the auditorium and a furniture store in the former lobby.
The auditorium is occupied by an apparel company. According to the owner “We gutted the theater so we could turn it into our warehouse and offices.”
Doesn’t sound like anything is left.
Looks like it is now a mattress and furniture store and a repair store(on the ground floor), Upstairs area unknown?
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i found this Fox Crotona Theater, 453 East Tremont Avenue, Bronx, NY – August 3. 1929 i belive this is near washington ave bronx, ny
anyone has photos
Brad, if you access the street view in the heading above you can see what the Crotona looked like as a retail outlet. That might help you with the identification you seek.
was this on Washington ave and up the street claremont parkway bronx ny?? i lived on the corner of 1575 Washington ave bronx ny and 451 claremont parkway i am trying to locate the theater across from our apt back in 1957 can any help??
Click here for an exterior view of the Crotona Theatre in 1929.
@ Robert Yes it was still there in 1958 our class went to see a show there “The World’s Strongest Man.” and after the show there was a display of smoking and the danger of it. It has had to be 1960 or 61. I have to double check with my classmate Gary Macchio. @ Ed many of the buildings on East Tremont Avenue in that area were wonderful and showed very good construction and had its own identity. I believe that the Am Classic picture is picture of an old club, if it was 483 E Tremont Avenue.If you are on Facebook you can see my link to my Bronx Pictures.
Just looking at the American Classic Images photo that drew so many comments above and the website doesn’t seem to be identifying the building as a movie theater at all. The caption merely indicates a Crotona storefront. The point of the photo was probably capturing that great vintage neon sign still intact in 1988. The edifice, however, is certainly reminiscent of theater architecture.
In the 1958 movie “The Colossus of New York”, there is a street view and the Crotona Theatre can clearly be seen. It is near the beginning of the movie. It was still operating as a theater at the time.
The Miles shore store was a block East from the Crotona. There were three shoe stores from Washington Avenue to Third Avenue on the North side of East Tremont Avenue. This one was a few stores from Woolworth’s which was on Tremont and Washington and two others between Bathgate and Third Avenue, of course my memory is a bit foggy but I lived there from 1957 to 1962.
This picture is taken from the 3rd Avenue El 1962.
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I agree. I’m wondering what the Am Classic theater is, if not the Crotona. Someone will recognize it.
I think the American Classic guy mislabeled the April 2009 photo. I looked at Ken’s photos from 2005 and the one on 6/30/08, and the buiding is dissimilar to the one in the last photo. If the last one is not the Crotona, I would be curious to know which theater it actually is.
William Fox in his biographical book, “Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox” speanking about the Audubon and Crotona Theatres he constructed is quoted, “One of these places opened Thanksgiving Eve and the other a few days before Christmas in 1913."
Since the audubon reprtedly opened on November 28, 1912 and the Crotona in 1912 it is probable that either Fox got his years mixed or some how the stenographer taking notes recorded the year wrong. The Crotona probably opened around December 23, 1912.
We went to the Crotona Theater two weeks ago and one of the managers kindly led us inside the auditorium part, which is now used as storage space for their textile manufacturing. Unfortunately, almost nothing remains from the original architecture as the ceiling and plaster was removed.
Three photographs I took of the Crotona Theatre in June 2005:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221214562/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221215179/
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/221215632/
Here’s the web page from which the pics posted by Damien Farley were taken:
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2002 photos of the theatre can be found here:
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The theatre is still standing—the mattress store is in the lobby, which is now walled off from the auditorium. The auditorium is now a light manufacturing facility.
It now houses a furniture and mattress store.