Astor Place Theatre, New York City

The old Astor Place Theatre, with surroundings, seen from Astor Place, Manhattan. Colored lithograph published by Henry Hoff (Views of New-York). Source: New York Public Library.

Astor Place Theatre was bounded by Astor Place (left), Lafayette Street (foreground), Broadway (background) and East 8th Street (right). The theater was constructed in 1831 as a series of nine connected buildings, of which only four remain today. Today it houses a "new" Astor Place Theatre, which opened in 1968.

The Third Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church is on the right. This Georgian-style temple was completed in 1842 on the north side of East 8th St., between Broadway and Fourth Avenue. The congregation vacated the temple in 1871, then the building was used as an upholstery factory and, starting in 1879, a succession of theaters until it was razed in 1904 for construction of the subway.