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Stunning Vintage Photos Of New York City’s Theatres From the 1930s

The first theatre in New York City was built in 1750 on Nassau Street, Manhattan. By the 1840s, P.T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in Lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblo’s Garden opened and soon became one of New York’s premiere nightspots. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown and then to the Theatre District. There are many other theatres, restaurants, hotels, and other places of entertainment in the area. There are currently 41 Broadway theatres in operation in New York.

Here below are some amazing vintage photos of New York theatres from the 1930s. These photographs were captured by Brad Smith.

#1 Loew’s Paradise Theatre, Bronx, New York, December 6, 1930

#2 Side-street view of Loew’s Pitkin Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, May, 1930

#3 Loew’s Metropolitan Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, April 12, 1930

#5 Loew’s State Theatre, Manhattan, New York, June 1930

#6 Academy of Music (later converted to the Palladium), New York, 1931

#11 Loew’s Orpheum Theatre, New York, NY, January 1930

#12 Loew’s Valencia Theatre, Jamaica, NY, December 13, 1930

#13 Loew’s State Theatre (now Landmark Theatre), Syracuse, New York, February 1931

#18 The Roseland Ballroom and Cine Roma Theater, NY, 1938

#20 Loew’s Gates Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, May 7, 1930

#21 Loew’s Pitkin Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, November 1930

#22 Loew’s Rochester Theatre, Rochester, New York, April 26, 1930

#23 Loew’s State Theatre (now Landmark Theatre), Syracuse, New York, April 19, 1930

#24 Shea’s Buffalo Theatre (now Shea’s Performing Arts Center), Buffalo, New York, January 1930

#26 Fox’s Great Lakes Theatre (also known as the Paramount Theatre), Buffalo, New York, February 6, 1931

#27 Loew’s Rochester Theater, Rochester, NY, February 13, 1931

#28 Loew’s Yonkers Theatre, Yonkers, NY, March 1931

#31 Loew’s Rochester Theater, Rochester, NY, September 23, 1932

#35 Shea’s Buffalo Theatre, New York (now Shea’s Performing Arts Center), February 1932

#38 Paradise Cabaret Restaurant in the Brill Building, New York,1937

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