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The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater at 214 West 42nd Street, at the southern end of Times Square, in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City. One of the first Broadway venues to open in the Times Square neighborhood, the New Amsterdam was built from 1902 to 1903 to designs by Herts & Tallant .
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Feb 20, 2024 · In 1937, the New Amsterdam was sold as a movie theater, which remained in operation through the early 1980s — though by the ’70s, the area surrounding Times Square had become run down and crime-ridden, prompting the 42nd Street Development Project to announce plans for its revitalization before ultimately leasing the building to The Walt Disney Company.
About the New Amsterdam Theatre. When it opened in 1903, the New Amsterdam Theatre was the largest on Broadway. Originally owned by production team Klaw and Erlanger, the theater changed hands a number of times during the 20th century and was a movie house for around 40 years. The Disney Theatrical Company has been the leaseholder since the 1990s.
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- 214 W 42nd St, New York, 10036
The theater was then turned into a movie house and through its forty years never showed a pornographic movie, unlike all the other movies houses on that block. In 1979, the interior of the New Amsterdam Theatre was declared an historic landmark, but the theater continued to decline for the next few years.
- 11 Times Square, New York, 10036, NY
The New Amsterdam Theatre was built in 1903 by producers A.L. Erlanger and Marcus Klaw and was designed by architects Herts and Tallent. With 1,702 seats, it was the largest theater on Broadway at ...
By 1937 the New Amsterdam was the last legitimate theater on 42nd Street. It later became a movie theater and fell into disrepair. In 1992, under the aegis of the New 42nd Street, a nonprofit organization responsible for the revitalization of theaters, the New Amsterdam attracted the attention of Michael Eisner, then the CEO of Disney, who purchased the theater and hired Hugh Hardy to restore ...
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