Elgin Theater

The Elgin Theater is a former movie theater on the corner of 19th Street and Eighth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The theater showed films from its opening in 1942 until 1978. Its longtime manager, Ben Barenholtz, invented midnight movie programming for the theater. Following a full renovation, the building reopened in 1982 as a 472-seat dance theater operated by the Joyce Theatre Foundation.

This article is about the theater in New York City. For other uses, see Elgin Theatre (disambiguation).

Elgin Theater
The Elgin Theater, before 1982
Address175 Eighth Avenue
LocationChelsea, New York City, United States
Coordinates40°44′34″N 74°00′02″W
Public transit14th St./Eighth Ave (NYC Subway)
TypeTheater
Genre(s)Cinema
Capacity600
Construction
Built1941
Opened1942
Renovated1982
Closed1978
ArchitectSimon Zelnik
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