Flatbush Avenue under the marquee and the vertical sign, through the bronze doors and the low ticket lobby into the foyer: gilt plaster, pink marble, a coffered ceiling with chandeliers, the red carpet to the grand stair, the auditorium curtain glimpsed through an arch.
The Loew's Kings Theatre opened in Flatbush in 1929 as a movie and live performance house at 1027 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. It struggled as multiplexes drew audiences away and shut its doors in 1977. The building sat dark for decades. After a 95 million dollar restoration the 3,074 seat theater reopened in 2015 in its original glory and now hosts concerts and live performances.
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The 1929 Loew's Wonder Theatre by Rapp and Rapp, French Baroque after Versailles and the Paris Opera: the marquee and blade sign on Flatbush, the three storey foyer with gilt pilasters, pink marble columns, coffered ceilings, chandeliers, and the grand stair to the mezzanine. Mood: the grand foyer, doors at seven. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.