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Nostrand Theatre
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Nostrand Theatre, June 18, 1961. One of a number of theatres along Nostrand Avenue that used the same name at various times, the theatre at nos. 2817-2825 was constructed in 1938 in an Art Deco style. Designed by John Eberson, the well-known architect of movie palaces. The auditorium had seating for 1000. Its first two screenings were 'A Man to Remember' and 'That Certain Age.' The building housed the movie theatre until 1984. Today the building remains and is occupied by a gym.
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Kingsway Jewish Center
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Kingsway Jewish Center, 1961. The Mid-century building is the home of a Modern Orthodox Shul that has served the surrounding neighborhoods since 1928. The building, designed by Martyn Weston and Herman Sohn and constructed between 1951 and 1957, includes a number of prominent mid century features, such as blocky massing and narrow vertically-oriented windows that frame the entrance. The building also includes 18 stained glass windows by well-known American Abstract Expressionist painter and sculptor, Adolf Gottlieb. The larger windows depict Jewish holidays, while the smaller ones include simple geometric motifs. Gottlieb's other major stained glass work (for the Milton Steinberg House in Manhattan) was dismantled in 1980 and reinstalled elsewhere, making his windows at Kingsway the only remaining example of his glass work in situ.

Photos(17)

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2721 Kings Highway

\[View of large apts. at E. 27th Street.] View of large apts. at E. 27th Street Kings Highway (n.e. corner).
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2802 Kings Highway

\[View of modern brick home.] View of modern brick home at s.e. corner of 28th Street and Kings Highway with apts. in background. Geo. Pollack, M.D., here. Geo. Pollack, M.D., 2802 Kings Highway.
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1501 East 27th Street

\[Apt. house.] Apt. house at s.e. cor. E. 27th Street and Kings Highway.
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2823 Kings Highway

\[House near Kings Highway in Flatlands] Two-story stucco house with tiled roof, awnings, and wall decorations near Kings Highway in Flatlands; flowers, bushes, and trees on lawn in foreground; wooden house in right background.
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Kingsway Jewish Center

\[Kingsway Jewish Center.] Kingsway Jewish Center, 2902 Kings Highway at s.e. corner of E. 29th Street and Kings Highway. View of entrance.
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Kingsway Jewish Center

\[Kingsway Jewish Center.] Kingsway Jewish Center, 2902 Kings Highway at s.e. corner of E. 29th Street and Kings Highway.
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3531 Bedford Avenue

How they got out Posed photograph of African American woman (top) and Caucasian man (bottom) emerging with baseball bats from a broken door. Caption: "HOW THEY GOT OUT: Monroe Meyerson, 21, and Mrs. Arline Tompkins, 26, demonstrate how, with baseball bats, they broke out of upstairs storage room at Meyerson home, 3531 Bedford Ave., in which they had been locked by robbers who helped themselves to furs and jewels."
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Nostrand Theatre

\[Nostrand Theatre.] Nostrand Theatre (on Nostrand Avenue, just south of Kings Highway) (on east side of avenue).
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1467 East 31st Street

\[1467 E. 31st Street.] 1467 E. 31st Street at s.e. corner of Kings Highway and E. 31st Street - a modern brick house.
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Madison Gardens

\[2425 Kings Highway.] 2425 Kings Highway (Madison Gardens) red maple at entrance.
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Avenue P & East 27th Street

Ave. P & E. 27th St Flooded street (Avenue P or East 27th Street) with vehicle moving through water between rows of slightly elevated, brick and stone houses; utility poles at right; children on stoop at far right; vegetation and debris in foreground.
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1581 East 24th Street

\[View looking along east side of E. 24th Street.] View looking along east side of E. 24th Street towards s.e. corner of E. 24th Street Kings Highway.
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2303 Avenue N

Ave. N & Delamere Pl Three-story brick and stone house with steeply tiled roof and dormer windows at corner of Avenue N and Delamere Place; sidewalk, lamppost, and street signs in foreground; hedges and conifer trees on lawn before house.
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2202 Avenue N

House at East 22nd Street & Avenue N Facade of back of two-story, white house at East 22nd Street, Avenue N, and Olean Street with backyard in foreground.
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2412 Avenue P

Ave. P & Bedford Ave Broad, tree-lined avenue (Avenue P?) with light traffic and some parked automobiles; mother with child and other pedestrian in right background; telephone wires overhead; houses mostly obscured by trees; smaller street (Bedford Avenue?) at intersection at right.
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2300 Kings Highway

\[Large red apt. building.] Large red apt. building at s.e. corner of E. 23rd Street and Kings Highway.
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3214 Kings Highway

\[Modern homes at south side of Kings Highway.] Modern homes at south side of Kings Highway between East 33rd Street and New York Avenue.
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