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Astor Theatre (New York City) The Astor Theatre was located at 1537 Broadway, at the corner with 45th Street, on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It opened on September 21, 1906, with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream [1] and continued to operate as a Broadway theatre until 1925. From 1925 until it closed in 1972, it was ...
Nevertheless, it was the deadly infamous Astor Place riot, only a year and a half after opening on May 10, 1849 which caused the theatre to close permanently – provoked by competing performances of Macbeth by English actor William Charles Macready (1793–1873), at the Opera House (which was then operating under the name "Astor Place Theatre ...
The Astor Place Theatre is an off-Broadway house located at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan. The theater is located in the historic Colonnade Row, originally constructed in 1831 as a series of nine connected buildings, of which only four remain. Though it bears the same name, it was not the site of the Astor Place Riot of ...
22-31 killed. 48 wounded. The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849, at the now-demolished Astor Opera House [1] in Manhattan and left between 22 and 31 rioters dead, and more than 120 people injured. [2] It was the deadliest to that date of a number of civic disturbances in Manhattan, which generally pitted immigrants and nativists against ...
Astor Place. Coordinates: 40.729861°N 73.991434°W. Astor Place is a street in NoHo / East Village, in the lower part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is divided into two sections: One segment runs from Broadway in the west (just below East 8th Street) to Lafayette Street, and the other runs from Fourth to Third Avenues.
Astor Place Theatre, off-Broadway, New York City. Astor Theatre, New York City, on Broadway, New York City. Dixie Center for the Arts, formerly the Astor in Ruston, Louisiana.
1967. Hotel Astor was a hotel on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States. Built in 1905 and expanded in 1909–1910 for the Astor family, the hotel occupied a site bounded by Broadway, Shubert Alley, and 44th and 45th Streets. [1] Architects Clinton & Russell designed the hotel as an 11-story Beaux ...
486 Broadway (Mechanics & Traders Bank) E. V. Haughwout Building. New Era Building. 502 Broadway (C. G. Gunther's Sons Store) 503 Broadway (Loubat Stores Building) 521 Broadway (St. Nicholas Hotel) 517 Broadway (De Forest Building) 555 Broadway (Charles Broadway Rouss Building) Scholastic Building.