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A Second Act for Brooklyn’s Extravagant Kings Theatre

by Benjamin Sutton on January 27, 2015

The exterior of the Kings Theatre (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)

“Brooklyn, the county of kings, has cleaned off its crown, and it’s the Kings Theatre,” Borough President Eric Adams proclaimed during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the long-shuttered and lovingly restored movie palace on Flatbush Avenue on Friday. Between the boisterous presence of former borough president Marty Markowitz and a man who arrived on his unicycle, the event reflected the mix of Old and New Brooklyn audiences to which the Kings Theatre will be catering.
Designed by architecture firm Rapp and Rapp and opened in 1929 as one of Loew’s five “Wonder Theatres” in New York and northern New Jersey, the Kings Theatre operated as a cinema for nearly 50 years. It was shuttered in 1977, seized by the city in 1979, and left to deteriorate for the next three decades — save for an emergency repair to its leaking roof in 2007.

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