Hippodrome Theatre

New York, NY

Performance History

Venue Info

Built: 1905
Venue Status: Status unknown
Seating Capacity: 5200

Location Info

6th Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets
New York, NY
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Other Names

  • New York Hippodrome (1933)
  • Hippodrome Theatre (1905)
  • The Hippodrome (date not entered yet)

Trivia & History

Taking up the entire block between 43rd and 44th Streets, the venue mainly housed spectacles. The stage was 100 feet deep and over 200 feet long.


It became a vaudeville theatre in 1923. In 1925, RKO bought the property and it became a cinema. They sold it in 1929. It closed in 1932 and reopened in 1933. It closed for good in 1936 and was demolished three years later.

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