 The Elgin Theater, before 1982 | |
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| Address | 175 Eighth Avenue |
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| Location | Chelsea, New York City, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°44′34″N 74°00′02″W / 40.742766°N 74.000545°W |
| Public transit | 14th St./Eighth Ave (NYC Subway) |
| Type | Theater |
| Genre(s) | Cinema |
| Capacity | 600 |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1941 |
| Opened | 1942 |
| Renovated | 1982 |
| Closed | 1978 |
| Architect | Simon Zelnik |
The Elgin Theater is a former movie theater on the corner of 19th Street and Eighth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The theater showed films from its opening in 1942 until 1978. Its longtime manager, Ben Barenholtz, invented midnight movie programming for the theater. Following a full renovation, the building reopened in 1982 as a 472-seat dance theater operated by the Joyce Theatre Foundation.