A Walking Tour of the Theater District

• Ed Sullivan Theater
• The Embassy 1 Theater - now Times Sq. Tourist Information Center
• The Victory Theater - now The New Victory Theater
• The Brill Building "Tin Pan Alley"
• The Sullivan St. Industrial School from 1892
• he best known address on Broadway - actually second to the Brill Building
• A theater that started as The American Horse Exchange
• Jack Dempsey's Corner
• Times Square Church originally a movie palace built in 1929, then a Broadway theater
• “George M. Cohan” actor, producer, director and the only song writer awarded the Congressiona Medal of Honor for a song .
• Father Francis P. Duffy” the hero priest portrayed in the movie "The Fighting 69th"
• The Cort Theater, "let them eat cake".
• Church of Mary the Virgin, the first church in the world built on a steel frame
• Statues of: "Ethel Barrymore" -- "Marilyn Miller" -- "Mary Bickford" -- "Rosa Ponselle"
• The first “Fame” High School of Performing Arts
• Originally was: The Lambs Club
• The Town Hall Theater, built by a group of women as a forum to educate men and women on political issues
• The site of the Studebaker Building (a picture of it) and information about automobile manufacturing right here on Longacre Squ
• Odd Fellows Hall and what it looked like when it was first built
• The original Paramount Theater Building
• TSite of Woody Guthie's first New York address where he wrote "This Land is Your Land"
• David Belasco and the Belasco Theatr
• he site where Eugene O’Neil was born
• One Times Square
• originally The Knickerbocker Hotel(gang)
• The Frohman Brothers and the Theatrical Syndicate and the Lyceum Theatre and more

• The New Amsterdam Theater
• The Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church
• The oldest functioning Broadway theater, was where "The World's Most Beautiful Woman" appeared on stage
• The New York Actor's Studio, originally a church from 1858
• New Dramatist, theater, readings, workshops and much more for playwrights
• originally: The Martin Beck Theater from 1924
• "The Unorthodox Masterpiece"
• The Film Center Building
• The Shubert Brothers,The Shubert Theater and The Booth Theater

• The Barrymore Theater
• Irving Berlin's "Music Box Theater"
• originally the Globe Theater
• Hotel Edison and a beautiful Art Noveau mural by Ezra Winter
• The Eugene ON'eil Theater
• The site where Bat Materson died
• The site where "the meeting place of the world" was located, Jack Dempsey
• St. Malachy's Church also known as "the actor's chapel"
• Congregation Ezrath Israel known as: "The Actor's Temple"
• The site where the third Madison Square Garden was located, where President John F. Kennedy had his 45th birthday party and more
• A theater that is styled after a 15th Century Tuscan Villa
• A 19th century Beaux Arts courthouse converter to a cultural center with theatres
• A walk through a part of ‘Hells kitchen’
• Optional: originally The Church of St. Benedict the Moore from 1869, converted to St. Benedict's Church in 1890

Guided by Alfred Pommer a college graduate, an informative native New Yorker, an author of four Manhattan guide books published by The History Press and
a Licensed New York City guide,with over 27 years experience researching, creating and leading walking tours in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.