Cinema Kings Highway
711 Kings Highway,
Brooklyn,
NY
11223
711 Kings Highway,
Brooklyn,
NY
11223
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Brandt Theaters
Architects: Benjamin Schlanger
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Jewel Theatre
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News About This Theater
- Dec 8, 2011 — Come for the smut, but stay for the classics
The 650-seat Jewel Theatre, which stands a few blocks west of the Kingway Theatre, was opened in 1936. It later became a foreign film house until it was damaged by fire in the 1960’s.
It was completed renovated and reopened as the Cinema Kings Highway with an exclusive Brooklyn showing of "Thoroughly Modern Millie." But in the late-1960’s, the owner found he could make a lot more money running XXX and played "He and She" there for over a year.
The story goes that he ran off with all of the profits and the theatre fell into a dispute over the ownership. Before video shut it down, it was split into two theatres, with regular porn running downstairs and gay porn running in the small balcony. It reopened as a triplex, featuring XXX straight porn in one theatre, gay porn in the second, and obscure foreign classics in the third. This was basically the programming policy. By 2017 it was operating with 4 screens. It was closed on March 16, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The owner sold the building in the summer of 2021 and the closure became permanent.
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I must be honest here. I truly miss the Brooklyn Cinema and my trips to Kings Highway. I had so much fun at the theatre. I was young, full of life, full of energy. At 58, I deeply yearn for those days again.
Me too. Only The Fair in Queens is left.
Jeff,
Someone said the Fair Theatre is closing. Is that true?
Haven’t heard.
I don’t know of any other adult theaters in NY City.
I called the Fair and the person who answered said there are no plans to close the theater.
thanks
Garth you should also indicate that on the Fair site.
Good idea.
I posted it on their site. Someone on there says they saw it on Reddit, I searched Reddit for Fair Theater and nothing came up