Greenwich Theater (Art Greenwich Twin)

97 Greenwich Avenue | also 234 West 12th Street | West Village | built 1929

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1921
A frame dwelling and a stable stood on this corner before the theater
Before the theater, the corner of Greenwich Avenue and West 12th Street held a one-story frame dwelling, which was demolished in 1921, and a stable fronting the Avenue. The stable was later a garage and was altered in 1930. The Landmarks Commission's report describes the two-story theater that replaced them as serving the neighborhood.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1936
February
The Greenwich Theater opens at 97 Greenwich Avenue and gets a stink bomb in August
The Greenwich Theater opened here in February 1936 as a neighborhood movie house. On August 19, 1936, a crowd of four hundred had to sit through a stink bomb, which was blamed on labor troubles. Ushers countered with sprays and perfume, and the film kept running. Over its 64 years the house had four names, reopening as the two-screen Greenwich Playhouse on December 14, 1979, and becoming the Art Greenwich Twin under Cineplex Odeon in the mid-1980s.
Source: westviewnews.org
2000
June
The Art Greenwich Twin closes after 64 years and the site becomes an Equinox gym
The cinema closed in June 2000, after The New York Times reported in 1998 that Cablevision would take it over. It had run for 64 years under four names. The site is now an Equinox fitness center.
Source: westviewnews.org

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