The National Theater was a Yiddish theater at the southwest corner of Second Avenue (Chrystie) and Houston Street in Manhattan, New York City, United States.[1] When first built it was leased to Boris Thomashefsky and Julius Adler.[2]
The theater was one of the many designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, and seated 1900 when it was opened on 6 May 1913. It was built as one of a pair of theaters, with the Crown Theater, seating 963, on the upper level. Both theaters closed in 1941, re-opened in 1951 as a pair of Cinemas (the National Theater and the Roosevelt Theater), and were demolished in 1959.[2]