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Tag: vaudeville

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

Greenpoint’s Vaudeville Era Theaters: Still Hiding in Plain Sight

by Geoff CobbJanuary 7, 2019January 8, 2019

It is almost inconceivable today, but in the 1920s Greenpoint had as many as eight Vaudeville theaters. Some of the buildings still survive, but with other uses. In the days […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint, Culture, Historical Greenpoint

When Freedom of Expression and Censorship Battled on Manhattan Avenue!

by Geoff CobbMarch 31, 2016March 31, 2016

The other day, I gave a talk on the Irish history of Greenpoint, and a long-time Greenpointer offered me a new twist on a famous old Greenpoint legend. Before diving […]

Posted inCommunity, News

From Vaudeville to Oil Slicks to Premium Condos — The Hook-Up 11/20

by Steph KoyfmanNovember 20, 2015

Though Greenpoint’s industrial history gets dredged up on the regular, it’s less often that we talk about its former status as a thriving hub of theatre and vaudeville. Today, the […]



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