Theater District in Manhattan
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New York City ‘s Theater District (sometimes spelled Theatre District, and officially
zoned as the “Theater Subdistrict”) is an area and
neighborhood in
Midtown Manhattan where most
Broadway theaters are located, as well as many other theaters, movie theaters, restaurants, hotels, and other places of entertainment. It is bounded by West
40th Street on the south, West
54th Street on the north,
Sixth Avenue on the east and
Eighth Avenue on the west, and includes
Times Square .
The Great White Way is the name given to the section of
Broadway which runs through the Theater District. It also contains recording studios, record label offices, theatrical agencies, television studios, restaurants, movie theaters,
Duffy Square ,
Shubert Alley , the
Brill Building , and
Madame Tussauds New York .
The City of New York defines the subdistrict for zoning purposes to extend from 40th Street to 57th Street and from Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue, with an additional area west of Eighth Avenue from 42nd Street to 45th Street. The Times Square Alliance, a Business Improvement District organization dedicated to improving the Theater District, defines the district as an irregularly shaped area within the bounding box of 40th Street, 6th Avenue, 53rd Street, and 9th Avenue. As of 2018, the Vivian Beaumont Theater (part of Lincoln Center ) is the only Broadway-class theater not located in the Theater District. The area known as Theatre Row is an area on 42nd Street from Ninth Avenue to Eleventh Avenue , which includes many Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theaters.
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The
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) considered protecting close to 50 “legitimate theaters” as individual city landmarks in 1982, following the destruction of the
Helen Hayes and
Morosco theatres. A city-landmark status would prevent the theaters from being modified without the LPC’s permission, thereby protecting them from development. The landmarks under consideration included both facades and interiors, which were designated separately.
Manhattan Community Board 5 , under whose jurisdiction the vast majority of the theaters fell, supported many of the proposed landmark protections. An advisory panel under mayor
Ed Koch voted to allow the LPC consider theaters not only on their historical significance but also on their architectural merits. In response to objections from some of the major theatrical operators, several dozen scenic and lighting designers offered to work on the LPC for creating guidelines for potential landmarks.
The first theaters to be landmarked under the 1982 plan were the
Neil Simon ,
Ambassador , and
Virginia (August Wilson) in August 1985. The landmark plan was then deferred temporarily until some landmark guidelines were enacted; the guidelines, implemented in December 1985, allowed operators to modify theaters for productions without having to consult the LPC. The three theaters’ operators objected to the landmark statuses.
Landmark designations of theaters increased significantly in 1987, starting with the
Palace in mid-1987. The LPC designated the
Al Hirschfeld ,
Belasco ,
Booth , and
Brooks Atkinson , as well as the
Broadhurst ,
Ethel Barrymore , and
Biltmore in early November 1987. This was followed by the
Cort ,
46th Street (Richard Rodgers) ,
John Golden ,
Hayes ,
Hudson ,
Imperial , and
Mark Hellinger later the same month, as well as the Embassy, which was never a Broadway venue. In December 1987, the LPC designated the
Eugene O’Neill ,
Henry Miller’s (Stephen Sondheim) ,
Longacre ,
Lunt-Fontanne ,
Majestic ,
Music Box , and
Plymouth (Gerald Schoenfeld) as landmarks, as well as the
Lyceum ‘s interior. These actions brought the number of current or former Broadway theaters with landmark status to 26. Five more landmarks were designated by early 1988: the
Ed Sullivan ,
Royale (Bernard B. Jacobs) ,
Shubert ,
St. James , and
Winter Garden .
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