

Sign at Amsterdam Avenue and the 181st Street end of Washington Bridge. (The Alexander Hamilton Bridge – Trans-Manhattan Expressway – George Washington Bridge route is the main traffic express route) … Your webmaster took advantage of one of the March breaks in the monsoons to wander about High Bridge in the Bronx, and as my fleece jacket allowed the sun to soak my shirt through with sweat, a march across Washington Bridge to 181st Street, the main east-west shopping artery in northern Manhattan. Demolition began in March 2020 and was completed in November 2020.Early 2010 in NYC has featured some crazy weather - three feet of snow in February, which fell in three storms sunny and very warm in March, accompanied by several rounds of flooding rain and at this writing on April 7, 85 degrees is expected for a high temperature in the afternoon. It was being prepared for demolition in November 2019. By 2009 it was named Coliseum Cinemas using a former exit off the original main foyer as its main entrance. The theatre closed in 2002, but reopened in July 2004, as the New Coliseum Theatre, operated by Jesus Nova. It was was re-opened under new independent management on June 28, 1991, operating a a quad.

Cineplex Odeon closed the twin on November 9, 1989. The spectacular RKO ‘lightening bolt’ neon lit marquee that wrapped around the corner entrance was removed in 1984. At this time the ornate original ceiling in the auditoriums could still be seen and appreciated by those who have a passion for nostalgia. On Novemit was twinned by dividing the mezzanine, while the orchestra section was converted into retail use occupied by New York & Co., Bravo Supermarket, Radio Shack and Easy Connections. It became a full-time movie theatre in 1934. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Uncle Don’s Kiddie Show, and Gertrude Berg of television’s “The Goldbergs” were among the performers who had been there.

Keith’s Vaudeville and many of the most famous vaudeville acts came to the stage of the Coliseum Theatre. It later came under the management of RKO. The orchestra pit had a capacity for 25 musicians. It was equipped with a Moller 3 manual 15 ranks theatre organ. Moss Enterprises who launched the theatre. The plans by architects Eugene DeRosa & Percival Raymond Pereira were approved by B.S. Original plans were drawn by architect William H. Moss' Coliseum Theatre boasted to be the third largest theatre in Manhattan, with 3,462 seats, when it opened on September 23, 1920. Located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, on the northwest corner of W.
