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No Movie Today -- 1930

39 Rutgers Street,

Lower East Side, Manhattan

 

Rutgers Vaudeville Theatre opened before 1910.

Vaudeville was dropped in 1917 for motion pictures.

The theater closed in 1929 and was demolished in 1931.

 

Now the area is the site of Rutgers Houses,

a New York City public housing development

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Photographer unknown,

New-York Historical Society

 

 

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Uploaded on March 12, 2022
Taken sometime in 1930