[Greenwich Avenue: IND Eighth Avenue Line, New York, NY]
Survey photograph taken in preparation for construction and maintenance of the IND Eighth Avenue Line, New York, NY. View of Greenwich Avenue, at West 11th Street, showing The Sheridan Theatre and laborers with ladders below the marquee. The Sheridan Theatre was opened in 1921 and taken over by Loew's the same month this photograph was taken, December 1926. The Theatre closed in 1969.
New York Transit MuseumSheridan Theatre, 1926.
The theatre seen here is at the southern tip of the triangle formed by Seventh Avenue, Greenwich Avenue, and West 11th Street. The Sheridan Theatre opened in 1921 and was taken over by Loew's in 1926. The house sat 2,342 patrons. The building was demolished by St. Vincent's Hospital in 1969 for a proposed nurses residences (which never came to be).
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