Kossuth Theater
6911 Fresh Pond Road,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
6911 Fresh Pond Road,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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The Kossuth Theater was a short lived theater in the Ridgewood section of Queens. According to the Timesnewsweekly:
“It was a triangular-shaped building, bounded on the south by 70th Avenue, on the west by Fresh Pond Road and on the east by Cypress Hills Street. On the north it came to an apex”.
It was a short lived theater, probably never making it out of the silent era, opening some time around 1916 and closing some time around 1926 according to some accounts.
It was named the Kossuth Theatre, because Cypress Hills Street was once known as Kossuth Place.
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In the 50’s Strauss Stores Auto Parts store was at this location, I am not sure if was the theater building altered, or if it was a new buiding that replaced the theater. I do remember terra-cotta on the Fresh Pond Rd side of Strauss, but again, I don’t know if it was the old theater building or not. Strauss closed, and it became Crown Auto, and currently it’s a laundromat.
I drove by this location about a week ago, but didn’t have my camera with me. Anyway, there is a lot of terra-cotta on this building. I can’t be sure it is the actual theater building or not, but I guess it could be.
Here’s an aerial photo of the location. The Kossuth Theater location is the building with the blue awning, which is now a laundromat. I am not sure if it’s the same building or not. It’s an old building, with lots of terra-cotta, but can’t be sure without some further research:
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I totally forgot about this theater. There is some ornamentation that survives on the exterior of this building in the form of terra cotta. It did at least when Strauss was on there.
The Motion Picture supplement of the 1921 Cahn guide lists the Kossuth Theatre at 973 Fresh Pond Road, so the entrance must have been on that side of the building. Despite the fact that a search for that address at Google Maps goes right to the intersection of Fresh Pond and 70th Avenue, for some reason Street View gives two-digit addresses to this block.
973 Fresh Pond Rd would have been an address before they converted the address numbers into the QUeens grid system. It would be a 69-XX number now because it’s between 69th and 70 Ave. Halleck Ave must have been the old Queens street name before being converted into Queens street numbers.
The building’s current occupant, Citi Island Laundry Service, has the address 6911 Fresh Pond Road, but Google Maps sticks the pin icon for that number a block off. Using the old address 973 Fresh Pond Road actually gets you closer to the building on Google Maps.