THE BAY RIDGE THEATRE

7120 3rd Avenue
Robert T. Rasmussen, 1915

Bay Ridge once had many theaters, but like most of the others, the Bay Ridge Theatre ceased to function as a theater in the early 1960s. The building, however, has retained much of its ornament, including arched windows, fluted pilasters, and the theater’s name carved below the dentilled cornice. Hubert Selby Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, grew up across the street and set one of his short stories in the Bay Ridge Theater.

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