About This Item

  • Call NumberTHEA_0039
  • TitleGreenpoint Theater
  • SummaryCaption: "Greenpoint Theater [located at 825 Manhattan Avenue], photographed years ago, announces 'Matinee Today.' The billboard, dated March 7 (year missing in picture), lists some of the current acts such as 'At the Country Club,' Pringle and Whiting, Edna Philips, Hugh Lloyd, and The Four Hunting (the last word obscured). The theater is flanked by a florist, Mendelson's cigar store, and Wm. Levine, a tea merchant." Opened on October 10, 1908, as a vaudeville palace, it later became a movie theater. At the time of cataloging, it no longer exists.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteStamped on verso: date: Feb. 7, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMotion picture theaters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Theaters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Theaters: Greenpoint Theater