Now that the Victoria Theater redevelopment project on Harlem's 125th Street is officially complete, here's a before and after for some context.
The original venue, which opened in 1917 as the Loews Victoria, was a vaudeville theater that had two shows a day until 1930.
It closed in 1977, reopening a decade later as a five-screen cineplex that lasted two years. After one last attempt to revive the theater in 1996/97, it closed for good after only one year.
The first photo above was taken in May 2018 as work began on the new Victoria Theater redevelopment project, which would include two performance spaces run by the neighboring Apollo, the 211-room Renaissance New York Harlem hotel, and rental apartments in the back.
The second photo was taken in March 2024, soon after the completed project had its official ribbon-cutting.
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