BAM Rose Cinemas [New York City]
type: Item
label: Brooklyn Academy of Music @nl
label: BAM Rose Cinemas
description: theatre in Brooklyn
Wikidata source: Q45031924
EUTA research ID II: 1954
Field: architecture
Type of information: Performance venue
Importance: Not rated
Address: 30 Lafayette Avenue
Country: USA
City: New York City
city section: Brooklyn
GPS: Point(-73.9775 40.6866)
opening date: 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q1060829
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q182774
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 140342
Carthalia ID: 2711
Note: Main building of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), built 1906-1908. Opened in autumn 1908 with a series of opening events, including a performance of Gounod's opera Faust by the Metropolitan Opera Company. Later renamed BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building in honour of the real-estate businessman and philanthropist, Peter Jay Sharp. The building contains the Howard Gilman Opera House (2,109 seats, named after the philanthropist Howard Gilman) and BAM Rose Cinemas (formerly Carey Playhouse), Lepercq Space (originally a ballroom) and Hillman Attic Studio.