Broadway at 35th Street

Broadway at 35th Street. know NYC. Hello… , My name is Lee Schubert. Shortly after my brother moved to New York City from Syracuse, in 1900, I followed. We leased the Herald Square Theatre on Broadway at 35th Street – a success from the start. Later our brother J.J. joined us. We went to build and manage many of Broadway’s well-known theatrical venues, including the Sam S. Schubert Theatre which is still in operation on 44th Street., Back – Top: , Dedicated to amusement for almost four decades, this corner was the site of the city’s first aquarium, numerous theatres, a movie house, and eventually, an office building at 1333 Broadway. , Bottom: , “The playhouse will pass away as the most southerly first-class theatre in New York, barring Wallack’s [Theatre at 884 Broadway]. When it was built it was the farthest north (sic) , - Green Book, December 1914, on the closing of the Herald Square Theatre.