Talk:Audubon Ballroom

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[edit] The Building

Audobon is spelled with an o not a u. Audobon Ballroom stands near Columbia University's teaching hospital at Broadway and 157th Street. It is featured in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan (1985).

Is humanitarian the correct adjective to describe Malcolm X? The word does not appear in the main Malcolm X article, which describes him variously as "a spokesman for the Nation of Islam", "a founder of both the Muslim Mosque, Inc., and the Organization of Afro-American Unity" and "one of the most prominent militant black nationalist leaders born in the United States" as well as a "pan-Africanist". Perhaps "civil rights leader" would be more appropriate?

[edit] When was it demolished?

When was this building demolished? The term, "recently" will go out of favor after a few years or a few months depending on what it was actually demolished.

Is demolished even the right word? the facade remains. Uucp 16:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unclear as to where the theater & ballroom were w/ respect to existing facade

There only seems to be one image of the building that search engines find, and that image is of the building as it is now configured.

Various articles online say the ballroom was preserved, but they also say the ballroom was on the floor above a vaudeville theater that no longer seems to exist. The image I see seems to show a preserved structure that is not tall enough to contain a theater and a ballroom on top. Can anyone shed some light on just what exactly is left of the Audubon? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.225.94.17 (talk) 13:01, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Update - Part of my confusion came from an April 2008 NY Times story that mentioned that "the theater’s facade and part of the ballroom were preserved." On first glance, I took that to mean that the ballroom was preserved in its original space. Now I'm guessing they saved some of the interior of the ballroom and somehow transplanted it into a new location?

I've never been inside the building, but based on what I've read I'm fairly certain that the ballroom was on the second floor. If you look at Image:WTM wikiWhat 054.jpg, you can see that the façade of the first and second floors has been restored. Part of the second floor contains the ballroom and I think the rest of it is office space.

PS: Thanks for pointing out the Times article. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 18:09, 14 April 2008 (UTC)