From Flicks to Fischer on 15th Street
A couple of years ago the old Globe Theater on 15th Street between 5th and 6th avenues was demolished. Cinema Treasures says the second-run movie house closed decades ago and was later used as a warehouse. What’s risen in its place is a 48-unit apartment building, according to DOB records, that came from beneath the…
A couple of years ago the old Globe Theater on 15th Street between 5th and 6th avenues was demolished. Cinema Treasures says the second-run movie house closed decades ago and was later used as a warehouse. What’s risen in its place is a 48-unit apartment building, according to DOB records, that came from beneath the sea! was designed by architect Karl Fischer.
Development Watch: 226 15th Street [Brownstoner] GMAP DOB
Old Globe photo from kencta.
I’m with bob 🙂
Now if only we could get those 1956 cars again, my day would be complete. But I actually do like the Fischer building.
it is a terrible building, though I have seen worse. My heart breaks every time I walk by it.
While I much prefer the 1956b photo, the new building ain’t half bad (not that I’d want to live in it, mind you).
My vote: 2009.
BTW: note the sign on the movie theater advertising that it is air-conditioned. Even into the 1960’s, this was a big draw for the theaters, as most folks still didn’t have AC in their home (at least in Brooklyn).
“if one minority family moved in to a neighborhood all the whites would have a panic attack and flee in terror”
Minard,
I think you know what neighborhood was an exception to this (at least in the sense that, while many whites fled, encouraged, among other factors, by unscrupulous blockbusters, a sizable number stayed).
I want a car with fins and a chrome bumper.
Check out these beauties. The showroom is open to the public.
http://www.cooperclassiccars.com/Inventory1.asp
Check that car with the tail fins in the old photo. It’s a 1957 Plymouth. I know that because it was the first car I ever drove. The car was a tank and I drove it until I got ’66 Lemans convertible which was way cooler when I was in college.
Check that car with the tail fins in the old photo. It’s a 1957 Plymouth. I know that because it was the first car I ever drove. The car was a tank and I drove it until I got ’66 Lemans convertible which was way cooler when I was in college.
I agree that the 1950’s were not the heyday of western civilization. In fact, it was when people abandoned cities like Brooklyn by the hundreds of thousands; if one
minority family moved in to a neighborhood all the whites would have a panic attack and flee in terror.