Coliseum Cinemas
4260-4261 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10033
4260-4261 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10033
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Does anyone know anything about a small theatre that was located about a block from the Coliseum at 150 Wadsworth Ave? It was showing porno films until the mid-nineties but I know this theatre had been showing films since about 1915. There is a store in the theatre building now but the original facade is still intack.
Wow! once again you Wowed me and probably every one on this site with your photos Warren. were they from THS. and if so do they have blueprints of these old theatres in there original form or is it possible to get blueprints of theatres of there oroginal or later forms.
Doesn’t 3,095 refer to the original seating capacity, not the current overall capacity of the “multiplex”? If you look at the picture Warren posted of the original auditorium, it doesn’t seem at all implausible to me.
By the way, Warren, thanks for posting those great pictures. I had no idea that the Coliseum had a marquee that wrapped around the corner, or that there was a vertical sign on Broadway as well as 181st Street. (The vertical on the 181st St. side was still in place until just a few years ago.)
3462 is the correct number of seats—-that’s what it had when B.S. Moss opened it in 1920.
Currently, the four theatres now housed in the former balcony seat around 250 each.
no way this theater has 3095 seats
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The engagement of ‘Santo Domingo Blues’ at the Cinema Village on 12th Street (according to Cinema Village’s web site) has been pushed back until February 4, 2005; I suspect the same is true for its run at the Coliseum, Julio and Divinity. To confirm that, my best advice would be to shoot an e-mail to Mambo Media, the company releasing ‘Santo Domingo Blues’, at
dont know, but acorrding to the website of the documentary (http://www.santodomingoblues.com) this theater is showing it:
http://santodomingoblues.com/upcoming.html
so im not sure whats up.
Hello Julio,
The telephone number of the New Coliseum is 212 740-1545.
Do they regularly play documentaries? It sounds interesting.
hey, anyone know about a documentary called “Santo Domingo Blues” being played there??? also can i get the number for this place?
Sorry to have to post this here but there’s no general info area on this website (if there is, someone please tell me!)…
Anyway…There is another theater on Broadway around (I’m guessing here…) 165th Street or so. It’s on the southbound side of Broadway in the 160’s or so. It looks like the auditorium ran parallel to Broadway. It’s no longer a theater.
Can anyone tell me what it might be so I can look it up on here?
Thanks…
When was the orchestra and its accompanying lobby separated from the balcony portion of the Coliseum?
Had they kept the orchestra they could have made this a real multi-plex.
It was possible to do this because there was always a seperate entrance for the balcony on 181st. At one time there was a small hole in the floor of one of the balcony theatres and you could see the store below it.
The only theatre I was ever in where the orchestra no longer existed was a dollor house in Scranton Pa. I dont recall the name or if it still exists. It may have been called The Strand.
When this theatre was first twinned. The Orchestra and Balcony were seperate theaters. When the Orchestra was closed and turned into retail space the bacony was twinned and later made into a quad.
Until Garth came to town there were no major theater renovations in nyc theaters all chains were milking the public..This is when the nyc theater boom began!
Even though I was never a big Cineplex Odeon ‘fan’ – charging for squirts of butter, offering the same major studio product at each of their venues… and the layouts of some of those C.O. houses (i.e., the First & 62nd), among other faults – I think Garth Drabinsky, for the most part, operated under the best of intentions… the best of intentions, though… well, we know how those sometimes go…
I new Garth very well as he made me dm of manhattan south for Cineplex Odeon i never felt i could not talk to him honestly at any time.
When Cineplex took over and The Grand Pooh-bah came down from Toronto to tour the theatres that he thought he bought, they went here and he proclaimed that in the lobby he would install a cafe with carrot cake and coffee in fine china cups (similar to what eventually ended up in the Carnegie Hall Cinema). The RKO person who was conducting the tour said ‘You can’t use fine china cups here – in this theatre they steal the toilet seats off the toilets’. – the RKO person was advised not to tell The Grand Pooh-bah what he could or could not do…
What is the lobby like here?
M.F.
The theatre seats approximately 250 in each house. The screens are decent size, and the presentation is very good. All equipment and seats are new.
Hey—longislandmovies, Rose wants to know if you’re initals are M.C.??
Just out of curiosity, what’s the approximate seating capacity for each of the Coliseum’s four auditoriums? What’s the size of the screens – tiny, decent, medium, etc.?
It’s a flat marquee, Robert, about five years old, and on the front of the building, directly above the theatre entrance.