Tremont Theatre (Bronx) Explained

Tremont Theatre
City:	The Bronx, New York City
Country:	United States
Location:	Webster Avenue and East 178th Street
Type:	Movie theater
Capacity:	942 seats
Built:	Around 1910
Closed:	Around 1960

Tremont Theatre was a theater constructed in about 1910 with seating for 942. It was located on Webster Avenue and East 178th Street, beside a New York Telephone Company building.^[1] One of the earliest purpose-built cinemas, it was known by various names during its use including Tremont Yiddish Theatre,^[2] Cinema Tremont, Moss's Tremont Avenue, and the Hamilton Theater. The theater closed around 1960.^{[3] [4]}

Organ Specifications: It had a II/7 "Style 3" Wurlitzer, Op. 9 in 1912 and an M. P. Moller pipe organ, Opus 2952, 3 Manual/17 Rank installed in 1921 at a cost of $8,000.^[5]

Weblinks

• New York City Chapter of The American Guild of Organists listing (with photograph of storefront)

References

40.849°N -73.899°W

Notes and References

1. Book: Twomey, Bill . South Bronx . 2002 . Arcadia Publishing . 978-0-7385-1020-0 . 90 . en.
2. Book: Back in the Bronx: celebrating the experience of growing up and living in the Bronx . 1995 . S.M. Samtur . Internet Archive . 978-0-9657221-0-0 . 2 . Scarsdale, NY . 23.
3. Web site: NYPL Digital Collections . 2024-11-07 . NYPL Digital Collections . en.
4. Web site: (still image) Bronx: Webster Avenue - 178th Street. Digital Collections, The New York Public Library . May 4, 2021 . The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
5. Web site: Tremont Theatre - The Bronx, NY . 2024-11-07 . New York City Chapter of The American Guild of Organists.