The Ace Theatre near 149th Street was listed at 554 Southern Boulevard in the 1960’s Bronx yellow pages.
The phone number was MOttHvn 9-4841.
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It had actually opened thirty years earlier as the
“Congress Theater.”
The New York Times on May 23, 1930 reported that “nearly 2,000 underprivileged children attended a free performance and party at the new Congress Theatre at Southern Boulevard and 149th Street in the Bronx.”
It was rebaptized as the “ACE” in the 1940’s.
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Like many theatrical venues of its era, it was fairly large.
The Film Daily Year Book listings for both the Congress and the Ace give a seating capacity of 1,800.
Today it’s all just very modest retail.
I suppose it’s a breath of fresh air it’s not already torn down.
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