Billie Holiday Theatre

1380 Fulton Street | also 1368 Fulton Street | Bedford-Stuyvesant | built 1917

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1972
The Billie Holiday Theatre is founded in 1972 with roots in the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements
The Billie Holiday Theatre was founded in 1972, growing out of the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements. Ford Foundation president Franklin A. Thomas, its first Black leader, worked through the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, described as America's first community development corporation, and the result was the 218-seat theatre. Marjorie Moon was appointed executive director and put neighborhood residents on the board to build a local audience.
“Founded in 1972, with roots in both the Civil Rights and the Black Arts Movements…”
Source: Wikipedia
2017
May
The renovated Billie Holiday Theatre reopens at 1368 Fulton Street inside Restoration Plaza
The theatre moved to Fort Greene in 2015 for two years while its Bedford-Stuyvesant home was renovated to designs by MBB Architects. It reopened in May 2017 at 1368 Fulton Street, within the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation's Restoration Plaza. The theatre is part of a $6 million superblock slated to add an ice-skating rink and a supermarket.
Source: Wikipedia

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