Today I heard from someone in the know about the Pavilion condos project. It seems that the contract was signed on June 12th. The deal is done. Does anyone have access to the plans?
I find the whole thing sickening. So that a few may pay millions for park view condos, many will suffer the loss of what was an old style movie palace and a key destination to many in this community.
The Pavilion has definitely added to the quality of life in the Park Slope/Windsor/Kensington area. I am wondering (perhaps too optimistically) if One Liberty Properties is planning to keep a movie theater of some kind on the first floor of the condo building.
I am so sick of this. I guess that site was worth too much to someone to just be a movie theater. Just a movie theater. The following is the depressing email I got this morning.
A contract was signed with One Liberty Properties on June 12 so I’m not sure what there is to do now. Thanks for putting it out there — people are starting to react now that the word is out.
I am disgusted with the number of condos being built in this neighborhood. I’ve lived in Park Slope my whole life cruising 40 years now and it won’t be a neighborhood any more it will be a sea of condos.
In the Pavillion’s defense, it was only one garbage bag of rodents. It was last month on the Daily Slope blog. Here’s the link to the post:
http://www.dailyslope.com/2006/05/post.html
I’m still mourning the Plaza on flatbush where I saw many many movies through high school and when I was a kid in the ’70’s, and it was still a single theater, I used to see double features of Godzilla and animated movies on Saturdays when it was a porno theater at night.
pigeon feces in the popcorn? bags of rodents. Is this true? Where did you read this? How do pigeons get into a movie theatre? So it’s not the Ziegfield, but it was a good place to go on a saturday night, or to take the kids on a hot summer day. Yes, it is unfortunate that we will be losing a movie theatre. You’re certainly right that it is no longer a “palace”.
The Pavillion is easily the worst movie theater in Brooklyn. It definitely once was an old movie palace, but it was butchered into several theaters that are too small with screens set too high and several theaters too big with screens too small. At least half the movies I saw there were out of focus, on top of which, they cut off the AC about halfway through the last screening each evening insuring you have to battle through the sweat pouring off your face just to make out the out-of-focus image…and did anyone else read that recent blog entry about the garbage bag of rodents hauled out of there after too many people complained about the pigeon feces in the popcorn?