Places that Matter
Place Explorer: Theater
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Place Name | Neighborhood | Borough | |
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Alhambra Theatre and Ballroom (former) | Central Harlem | Manhattan | The last standing of Harlem's historic dance halls |
Apollo Theater | Harlem | Manhattan | Legendary music and performance venue |
Beekman Theatre (former) | Upper East Side | Manhattan | Lovely single-screen movie theater |
Koster & Bial's "The Corner" (former) | Flatiron | Manhattan | Site of theaters and burlesque halls closed by anti-vice police |
Loew's 175th Theater, Washington Heights (former) | Washington Heights | Manhattan | Once, the most elegant movie theater in the city |
Loew's Paradise Theater (former) | Fordham | Bronx | Sumptuous former movie palace turned theater |
New York State Pavilion | Flushing | Queens | 1964 World's Fair pavilion designed by Philip Johnson |
Oak Room, Algonquin Hotel | Midtown | Manhattan | Historic cabaret supper club |
Pearl Theater Company | East Village | Manhattan | Classical theater company, no longer at its St. Mark's Place location |
RKO Keith's Movie Theater (former) | Flushing | Queens | Elegant neighborhood movie palace |
Saint George Theater | St. George | Staten Island | Historic Staten Island theater |
Slave Theater (former) | Bedford-Stuyvesant | Brooklyn | First opened as the Regent Theater, then as Slave One, identified with African American activism |
Studio 54 (former), now Roundabout Theater Company | Midtown | Manhattan | Nightclub renowned for hard partying |
Teatro Puerto Rico (former) | Mott Haven | Bronx | Featured Mexican movies and Puerto Rican music |
The Actors' Temple | Hell's Kitchen | Manhattan | Once the spiritual home of Jews in show business |
The Shore Movie Theater | Coney Island | Brooklyn | Coney Island Theater built in the 20s |
The Town Hall | Times Square | Manhattan | Performance space originally built as a lecture hall and meeting place for the women's suffrage movement. |
Triskelion Arts | Williamsburg | Brooklyn | Alternative performing arts venue |