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- Closed in the 1950s, it was converted into retail space on the ground floor and a warehouse in the theater space, but the last retail tenant vacated in the 2000s. The facade was designated a NYC landmark in 2010 but plans to revitalize the space or to convert it into condos have all fallen through.
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Jul 1, 2024 · The Loew’s Canal Theater was built in 1927 and was the second largest theater in New York City. It was sold a year later to a company that went bankrupt and bought back in 1929.
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Jun 28, 2014 · The Loew's Canal Theatre at 31 Canal Street has seen better days. Once a famed movie palace at the center of life on the Lower East Side, it is now neglected and rotting.
The theatre is entered through a narrow entrance on Canal Street, which leads towards a large auditorium whose west wall is shared with a side street. It was equipped with a Wurltzer 3 manual organ. The theatre was opened and operated by Loew’s Theatres, until the 1960’s. Then, it became an ‘indie’ before it closed circa 1979-1980.
Inside the old Loew's on Canal Street, which sits abandoned.
Dec 30, 2014 · The Loew’s Corporation contracted with Thomas W. Lamb, one of the foremost theater architects of the 20th century, to design a theater on Canal Street in Manhattan. The 2,314 seat theater was the second largest motion picture theater in the city when it opened.
The theater closed in the late 1950s, and by the early 1960s the lobby was converted to retail space, while the auditorium was being as a warehouse.
May 27, 2011 · In January 1926 Loew’s company contracted architect Thomas Lamb to design a theatre at 31 Canal Street. Lamb had already established himself as a designer of theatres and for this one he produced an ornate terra-cotta clad façade, completed in 1927.
