Slave Theater Auction Cancelled; Building in Contract?
This just in: The foreclosure auction of the historic Slave Theater at 1215 Fulton Street in Bed Stuy scheduled to take place yesterday at 2:30 pm was cancelled at the last minute, according to a...
View ArticleNYDN: Buyers Line up for Slave Theater
The estate of late Brooklyn Civil Court Judge John Phillips, who created Bed-Stuy’s famed Slave Theater, an Afrocentric cultural center in its heyday, has received five offers to buy the troubled...
View ArticleNew Brooklyn Theater to Hold Meeting About Slave Theater
The New Brooklyn Theater, which is trying to raise $200,000 on Kickstarter to buy the historic Slave Theater at 1215 Fulton Street in Bed Stuy, is holding a community forum Sept. 27 to build support...
View ArticleSlave Theater Auction Postponed Again
The fate of the Slave Theater at 1215 Fulton Street in Bed Stuy is still up in the air. An auction of the building that once housed the famed Afrocentric cultural institution was expected to take...
View ArticleBed-Stuy’s Slave Theater Sold, Likely to Become Condos
Looks like the fate of the Slave Theater on Fulton Street in Bed Stuy is finally sealed. According to an article in the Daily News the theater is likely to become condos. It’s unclear from the story...
View ArticleNew Owner of Slave Theater Amasses Sites as Ex Caretaker’s Son Blocks...
The son of the man who used to be the caretaker for the storied Slave Theater at 1215 Fulton Street in Bed Stuy, who claims to be the rightful heir to the property but lost a court case contesting its...
View ArticleBed Stuy’s Iconic Slave Theater Sells to Developer, Already Hit With DOB...
Bed Stuy’s historic Slave Theater — a bastion of Afro-centric culture and activism since the 1980s — and two adjacent lots were sold to developer Eli Hemway for $18,500,000, according to The Real...
View ArticleMan Protests Slave Theater Demo by Threatening to Jump From Top of Marquee
Photo by Brownstoner reader Augustiner The new owners of Bed Stuy’s iconic Slave Theater filed permits on Wednesday to demolish the once-vibrant hub of civil rights activism. Spurred into action at the...
View ArticleBlack Pride, Kung Fu and Social Justice: The Life and Times of Bed Stuy’s...
Judge John L. Phillips. Photo via the Slave Theater website For many people in Bedford Stuyvesant, home to Brooklyn’s largest African American community, Fulton Street’s Slave Theater is not just a...
View ArticleYear in Review: A Look Back at the 10 Biggest Brooklyn Stories of 2015
When we look back at the biggest Brooklyn news stories of 2015, we see a trend: the continued desirability of Brooklyn and its rising stature. From the real estate boom to Hillary Clinton locating her...
View ArticleShirley Chisholm, Robert Kennedy, Bed Stuy and More: 5 Longreads for a Long...
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we’ve collected the stories of a few remarkable Brooklyn people (and places) who fought for racial justice — from the groundbreaking politician Shirley Chisholm...
View ArticleSlave Theater Vacated, but Questions of Ownership Linger
The Times ran a story looking into the long, ugly battle over competing claims of ownership to Bed-Stuy's Slave Theater. Last week the city put a vacate order on the property, locking out two tenants...
View ArticleSlave Theater Demolished as Bed Stuy Icon Makes Way for Mixed-Use Development
The site of the Slave Theater, an icon in Bed Stuy whose sale and planned development has been the subject of many protests in the community, is inching closer to its newest iteration. Now, after...
View ArticleSite of Bed Stuy’s Former Slave Theater Back on Market for $37.95 Million
The site of the former iconic Slave Theater in Bed Stuy is once again back on the market. A new rendering, part of a zoning and use study by Morris Adjmi Architects, shows two buildings towering over...
View ArticleLondon Co-Living Firm Buys Slave Theater for $32.5 Million, Plans ‘Cultural...
The former site of the iconic Slave Theater in Bed Stuy has been sold again and its new owners intend to transform it into a mix of apartments, hotel, restaurant and community space. Comprised of three...
View ArticleBrit Co-Living Startup Taps Hudson Yards Architect for 10 Stories on Bed...
Manish Chadha of Ismael Leyva Architects will design London co-living firm The Collective's combination hotel-apartments-restaurant-community space on the former site of the iconic Slave Theater in Bed...
View ArticleInnovative Architect Sou Fujimoto Designs Cut-Away Building to Replace Slave...
Ingenious Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is designing one of Brooklyn's most interesting new buildings to replace the iconic Slave Theater in Bed Stuy. Renderings released by one of the developers,...
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