New York Cinema

In contrast to Fred Steward’s first cinema, the Silver (orginally the Electric), which was a conversion of an existing building, the New York (the Silver’s replacement, further up the same busy street but on the other side), was custom built. Cinema author Tom Hughes, writing in ‘How Belfast Saw The Light’ (2014) said, ‘The architect was Thomas Houston of Wellington Place and he produced an unfussy, compact looking building with a basic classical facade. The auditorium was spacious with a high ceiling; seating was for 750 patrons’.