Harlem Bespoke: It has been decades in the makeing but the facade of the Victoria Theatre on 125th Street between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard has finally been restored. We walked by the site today and noticed that all of the scaffolding was currently being removed. Everything has been polished up and any missing details except the windows have now been replaced at this point in time.
The top tower at the front will be a new
Mariott hotel when everything opens later in the year and uptown's highest rooftop bar will also be part of that debut. On the 126th Street side will be low-income housing with parts of the theater itself becoming a cultural center of some sort. Demolition to make way for construction started
back up in 2017 and now finally things are starting to come together. Movies were last shown at the historic landmark in 1994 so this is really one of the better preservation outcomes to found on 125th Street. More on the Victoria development project can be found in our past post:
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