When exiting at the Gates Avenue station on the JMZ line, the neighborhood appears to be your typical Brooklyn residential area. Shops and stores litter the iconic Broadway street under the subway tracks; the side streets are populated by houses and apartments, that have seen residents come-and-go for decades.
At 1239 Broadway, most pedestrians walk by what is now the Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology. But what most people are unaware of, is the building has been restored from an old vaudeville theater, that is now nearly a century old. The ornate moulding around the windows and imposing stature of the facade is indicative of a once vibrant and rich theater scene that resided in this part of Brooklyn.
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Cover image courtesy of Cinema Treasures.
