From Curbed:The old Fox Savoy Theater just north of Eastern Parkway on Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights will be demolished to make way for a 114-unit residential development. The neo-classical building opened in 1927, and it's been used as a church since 1969. Last year it sold to a developer, who will now build a Issac & Stern Architects-designed 10-story, 90,806-square-foot apartment building with a rooftop terrace and underground parking.
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A photo of the interior plus some history, and comments with links to more vintage photos: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6069
Once again we see the application of the tactics of urban renewal and "Black" removal!
Let's displace those "darkies" and way for "progress" through gentrification.
These troublesome minority groups have been holding valuable real estate hostage since the 1950s.
You don't have to travel to the heart of old Dixie. Racism is still alive and well in NYC,
even in 'liberal, tolerant" post civil War 2013!
Maybe they can get Tommy Huang to destroy it, just like he did with Flushing's RKO Keith's Theater.
As usual another travesty in New York. Our history is just disappearing, years from now we will have crappy glass buildings standing and third world shit hole 3 story apartment Fedder specials.
Miss those old movie houses.
Stale popcorn.
A Baby Ruth.
A grope with your date in the balcony.
You can't get that with streaming!
Yeah, I guess you could go "solo-sexual" with a bowl of Orvil Redenbacher at your side.
Depressing, Jackie Gleason and "Grampa" Al Lewis, and countless other “Real New Yorkers” performed there.
The whole locale from Coney Island to Great Neck is starting to look like those commie cities in Europe, Ukraine and China. Massive bland buildings and neighborhoods colonized by horrific vivid individuals.
God help NYC with this new socialist super-liberal mayor who has spent a good 1/4 of his life living blissfully in 3rd world slums south the border.
Ned said...
The whole locale from Coney Island to Great Neck is starting to look like those commie cities in Europe, Ukraine and China. Massive bland buildings and neighborhoods colonized by horrific vivid individuals.
Oh god, another scared, resentful old geezer.
Do bear in-mind that those buildings are built by capitalist developers. The rents they extract are non-regulated.
Now you know who to blame, it isn't the "horrific, vivid (code: colored) individuals".
"Capitalist" developers in outer borough neighborhoods these days are generally not white, and neither are their tenants. In fact, the first ones to usually screw over an ethnic community are those of their own kind.
Observing this trend does not make one a "scared, resentful old geezer."
True. The sales are "all cash" and generally bought with foreign money.
I will remember this the next time a read yet another breathless email from that Greenwich Village group about expanding their historic district that has about 10 times the designated buildings as the entire boro of Queens, and the lawsuits in support of them by that other 'city wide' preservation group that uses the dues collected from the rest of the city to support preservation efforts in perhaps a half dozen communities - mostly in Manhattan and white Brooklyn.
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