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Flushing RKO Keith's Theatre

This gallery was created to focus attention on preservation efforts for the landmarked Flushing RKO Keith's theatre. Many cities have restored these vaudeville show palaces, where they have gone on to become centerpiece preforming arts event centers, while the RKO Keith's has languished for 25 years. The RKO Keith's still stands and is one of the last remaining theatres, in the 3,000 seat class built in an atmospheric style, where the interior was designed to give the illusion of being outdoors in a Mediterranean villa. It represents a crowning achievement by the world renowned theatre architect Thomas White Lamb that made the larger Loews Paradise theatre in the Bronx (restored in 2005) gaudy in comparison.
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    Ramshakle group of "office spaces" constructed out of recycled plywood. These spaces (abandonded for years as evidenced by the TV) were put up by the developer before the current developer in the middle of the landmarked lobby.
    The landmarked ticket booth of the RKO Keith's.
    Just because you own a landmark it doesn't mean you have to maintain a landmark or even protect it. The RKO ticket booth when it achieved landmark status in 1984 and as it appears from the inside in 2011.