It was was re-opened under new independent management on June 28, 1991, operating a a quad. Cineplex Odeon closed the twin on November 9, 1989. The spectacular RKO ‘lightening bolt’ neon lit marquee that wrapped around the corner entrance was removed in 1984. At this time the ornate original ceiling in the auditoriums could still be seen and appreciated by those who have a passion for nostalgia. On Novemit was twinned by dividing the mezzanine, while the orchestra section was converted into retail use occupied by New York & Co., Bravo Supermarket, Radio Shack and Easy Connections. It became a full-time movie theatre in 1934.
Fields, Eddie Cantor, Uncle Don’s Kiddie Show, and Gertrude Berg of television’s “The Goldbergs” were among the performers who had been there. Keith’s Vaudeville and many of the most famous vaudeville acts came to the stage of the Coliseum Theatre. It later came under the management of RKO. The orchestra pit had a capacity for 25 musicians. It was equipped with a Moller 3 manual 15 ranks theatre organ. Moss Enterprises who launched the theatre.
The plans by architects Eugene DeRosa & Percival Raymond Pereira were approved by B.S. Original plans were drawn by architect William H. Moss' Coliseum Theatre boasted to be the third largest theatre in Manhattan, with 3,462 seats, when it opened on September 23, 1920. Located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, on the northwest corner of W.
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