Some theaters, lacking a curtain, occupied the screen with slides of some form of abstract art.

The theater, at 307 West 43d Street in Clinton, occupies a four-story former bank building that had stood empty for eight years.

The theater, whose lease is being negotiated, will occupy the cavernous 5,000-square-foot gutted bank floor and a 4,000-square-foot basement.

The theater now occupies the entire block, except for a private club that had escaped damage in the fire.

With this in mind they planned as early as 1966 to form a committee to establish a theatre on part of the ground the gallery occupied.

The windowless theater will occupy the rest of the building.

The theater occupied most of the building, with two small store spaces located at either end of the facade.

From 1953 to 1975 the theatre had occupied a converted, and for some time derelict, cinema on Station Lane.

"A Bolshoi-type ballet theater occupies a full block, remember."

Today, a gym, a theater and several businesses tied to the photography trade occupy its storefronts.