Yorkville Casino
1904 - 1964
The Yorkville Casino was built in 1904 at 210 East 86th Street as a place where the German immigrant community members could find music and food from back home. The casino was founded by the Musical Mutual Protective Union and funded by the firm of Levitan & Fischer. Over the decades, the casino became a social and entertainment hall that contained a cabaret, two main ballrooms (one of which was two stories high and almost 200 feet long), a movie theater, and a nickelodeon. In 1912, the casino served as a venue for a political rally as New York governor Woodrow Wilson denounced Theodore Roosevelt’s policies and platform at a dinner party sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Working Man's League. During World War II, the casino was a meeting place for the pro-Nazi German-American Bund. The pro-Nazi group distributed and sold Nazi literature, pamphlets and anti-Semetic newspapers. In 1964, it was announced that the Yorkville Casino would be repurposed and made into an office building with a movie theater downstairs.
Details
- Category
- Other
- Audience
- Adults
- Tags
- protest, socialhall, worldwar2, politicalrally, cinema, theater, dance
Location
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210 East 86th St, New York, NY 10028, USA? - ?
References
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Ennis, Thomas W.. “YORKVILLE LOSING AN OLD LANDMARK: Casino Where Gaiety Thrived to Be Office Building.” ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times, 2 August 1965, https://www.proquest.com/docview/116929136/abstract/8DDDC9796E0248DAPQ/1?accountid=40847&sourcetype=Historical%20Newspapers “GERMANS CELEBRATE NAZI LABOR DAY HERE: 3,000 in Yorkville Cheer Consul General's Advice to Keep Consciousness of Race.” ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times, 2 May 1935, https://www.proquest.com/docview/101559613/abstract/A08E4DB0D184FAEPQ/1?accountid=40847&sourcetype=Historical%20Newspapers “GOV. WILSON SCORES ROOSEVELT'S PLANS: What Colonel Proposes, He Says, Was Tried in Aristotle's Time and Since, with Disaster. FREEDOM OF INDUSTRY VITAL Death In Industrial Control -- Social Leaders with Workingmen, with Whom Governor Dines. GOV. WILSON SCORNS ROOSEVELT'S PLANS.” ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times, 5 September 1912, https://www.proquest.com/docview/97307182/abstract/4D48A8C32830439EPQ/1?accountid=40847&sourcetype=Historical%20Newspapers Meyers, Tom and Greg Young. “#332 Welcome to Yorkville: German life on the Upper East Side.” The Bowery Boys: New York City History, 25 June 2020. Apple Podcasts. "Plate 115, Part of Section 5: [Bounded by E. 89th Street, York Avenue, E. 83rd Street and Third Avenue.]" New York Public Library Digital Collections, New York Public Library, G.W. Bromley & Co., digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/84942990-472e-0132-fba7-58d385a7b928. “Plate 30: Bounded by Fifth Avenue, E. 97th Street, Second Avenue, and E.83rd Street.” New York Public Library Digital Collections, New York Public Library, G.W. Bromley & Co., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-0975-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 “The Remodeled Yorkville Casino - 210-214 East 86th Street.” Daytonian in Manhattan, 11 September 2021, https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-remodeled-yorkville-casino-210-214.html “Then & Now The Yorkville Casino.” The New York Daily News, 29 March 1998, https://www.nydailynews.com/1998/03/29/then-now-the-yorkville-casino/