RIP Pavilion: Paying tribute to the best worst theater in Brooklyn on its final day

An appropriate memorial made of literal trash . Photos by Tim Donnelly/Brokelyn. A funeral should be a somber occasion meant to pay respect to the dead, and not, say, poke around inside the corpse to catalog all the places where it had fallen apart before its passing. But the farewell to the Pavilion Theater in Park Slope last night was definitely more of a party, as visitors paid their respects to the sorta-beloved, much-reviled old moviehouse by picking apart its still-warm body (literally: I saw someone walk away with what looked like sconces they took off the wall). A DJ station was set up on the second floor arcade, so people were literally dancing on its grave; a brass band outside gave it the feel of a New Orleans funeral. Theaters ran a few black and white movies to entertain guests, who watched from cracked leather seats on floors still crackling with stickiness. The whole building was… Read More

RIP Pavilion: Paying tribute to the best worst theater in Brooklyn on its final day : Brokelyn