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IRVING PLACE THEATRE Built in 1888, the Moorish-style Irving Place Theatre, a block off Union Square, changed hands many times as a legitimate theater and burlesque house. In the early 1930s, the stripper Gyspy Rose Lee made her name there. When Abbott photographed the theater in 1938, it was about to open as the Yiddish Art Theater; Yiddish posters can be seen under the marquee. The theater eventually became a warehouse for S. Klein and was torn down in 1985 to make way for Zeckendorf Towers. Return to the Middle East Side |