Great story Leslie! The Ziegfield Theater - 141 54th Street. I or someone will start a thread about it.
WIKIPEDIA
On December 17, 1969, a few hundred feet from the original Ziegfeld Theatre, a new Ziegfeld Theatre opened as a single-screen movie house. Located at 141 West 54th Street, it is one of the last large-scale movie palaces built in the United States.
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...It has 1,131 seats (825 seats in the orchestral section and 306 seats in the tiered rear section). It has been used for 70mm world premieres and big-event press screenings, such as the November 1977 opening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The theater underwent extensive renovations in the late 1990s. It was a centerpiece site during the 2008 New York Film Festival because of reconstruction work at Lincoln Center that year