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Metro Theater
Metro Theatre may refer to: * Metro Theater (New York City), 2626 Broadway, Upper West Side, New York City, New York, U.S. * Metro Theatre (San Francisco, California), Cow Hollow, San Francisco, California, U.S. * Metro Theatre (Toronto), Toronto, Canada * The Metro Theatre, Sydney, Australia * Metro Arts Theatre, Brisbane, Australia {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Theater (New York City)
The Metro Theater (formerly the Midtown Theater and Embassy's New Metro Twin) is a defunct movie theater at 2626 Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by architecture firm Boak and Paris and built between 1932 and 1933. The theater is designed in the Art Deco style and originally contained 550 seats. Although the theater's interior was demolished after it was closed in 2005, the original facade remains intact and is a New York City designated landmark. The Metro Theater's facade on Broadway is about three and a half stories tall. The ground story contains an entrance, storefront windows, and ticket windows. Above the theater's main entrance is a Marquee (structure), marquee, which spans most of the theater's frontage and extends almost to the curb. The upper portion of the facade is made of terracotta and is divided vertically into three sections; the central section includes a decorative polychromed medallion. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
