James Welsh (29 January 1881 – 16 December 1969) was a Scottish Labour Party politician.
41-2069: Kingsway Theatre , and variations may refer to companies, or cinemas, or auditorium, or theaters, or theatres: Companies [ edit ] Kingsway Cinema Ltd. , founded by James Welsh (Paisley MP) Cinemas [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Kingsway Theatre, opened 3 May 1929 as Sutherland Theatre , later Odeon Sutherland , 4 Boyle Lane, Sutherland, New South Wales , (Closed) Canada [ edit ] Kingsway Theatre, 3030 Bloor Street West, Etobicoke, Toronto: List of cinemas in Toronto Kingsway Theatre, Vancouver, Canada. now: Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide Kingsway Drive-In Theatre, Montague, Prince Edward Island England [ edit ] Kingsway Theatre, Kings Heath, Birmingham, opened 2 March 1925, later, Essoldo Bingo Club , later, Gala Bingo Club. see : Kings Heath§Sport and leisure Kingsway Kinema, 93 Two Mile Hill Road, Kingswood, South Gloucestershire , (Bristol), built in 1926, opened in 1927, demolished in 2009 Kingsway Super Cinema, 197 London Road, Hadleigh, Essex , opened 27 April 1936 by Associated British Cinemas , closed in 1970 and demolished Kingsway Picture House, Hoylake , opened on 10 July 1915, closed 12 March 1960 and demolished Kingsway Cinema, 36 Parliament Street, Lancaster, opened on 3rd April 1923, Independent, in 1923, bought by Union Cinemas, October 1937, bought by Associated British Cinemas , Closed in 1939 Kingsway Cinema, Harrogate Road, Moortown, Leeds , opened 28 June 1937, closed 23 August 1958 Kingsway Super Cinema, 266 Moseley Road, Levenshulme , Manchester, opened 14 March 1929 by Snape and Ward , bought by Union Cinemas, 24 February 1936, bought by Associated British Cinemas October 1937, fire damage 26 June 1957, demolished in 1970s. Kingsway Cinema, 109 High Street, Newmarket, Suffolk, opened 31 December 1926, closed on 28 May 1977, became Coronet Social Club, later
82-659: A Buzz Bingo Club Kingsway Cinema, owned by James Welsh (Paisley MP) , opened on 8 May 1929, by Kingsway Cinema Ltd., later Vogue Cinema , Cathcart, Glasgow, Scotland (demolished) Kingsway Cinema & Leisure Centre, opened around 1920 as The Playhouse Cinema , Market Street, Galashiels , Scotland, now a 4-screen cinema Kingsway Theatre, now, Kino Cinema , Glenrothes. see: Glenrothes§Retail and service sectors United States [ edit ] Kingsway Theatre, 946 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, NY (Closed): Midwood, Brooklyn§Movie theaters Kingsway Cinema, 258 West Kings Highway, Eden, North Carolina Topics referred to by
123-595: A Labour Party member of Parliament representing a Scottish constituency is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Midwood, Brooklyn#Movie theaters Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn . It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College campus of
164-653: A Robert Morton theatre pipe organ. Within a year of opening, it became part of the Century Theatres chain. The theater closed in 1982, and the building now houses a Walgreens on the ground floor, and offices on the upper floors. The area east of Ocean Avenue is also known as "East Midwood". The volunteer ambulance service serving Midwood is Flatbush Hatzoloh. The nearest hospitals are New York Presbyterian Community Hospital and Mount Sinai, both on Kings Highway. Both are certified "9-1-1 FDNY-EMS" receiving emergency facilities. One of Brooklyn's last remaining farms
205-460: A hookah bar. The United States' largest kosher supermarket opened at the corner of Avenue L and Coney Island Avenue in August 2008. Ocean Parkway is a major tree-lined Brooklyn boulevard , largely featuring apartment houses. It is not a shopping district. Local one-way traffic lanes are separated from the main roadway by bicycle lanes and running paths. Most avenues continue from one side to
246-600: A campaign rally just outside Dubrow's Cafeteria . Years later, his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy ("Bobby") held a similar campaign rally there for his run for President. In the fall of 2008, the NYCDOT planned to implement an experimental congestion parking plan in the Kings Highway Business District, which would have raised parking meter rates from 75 cents to as much as $ 2.50 an hour. Specific streets were not then designated. Kings Highway
287-411: A college education or higher, 18% have less than a high school education and 39% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 40% of Brooklynites and 38% of city residents have a college education or higher. The percentage of Flatbush and Midwood students excelling in math rose from 43 percent in 2000 to 68 percent in 2011, though reading achievement remained steady at 48% during
328-808: A member of the Independent Labour Party , Welsh resigned in 1933 to join the Scottish Socialist Party . He served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1943 to 1945. In later life, he was a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain , chairing its Scottish Committee from 1946 to 1951. Welsh was the Cinema Director of Kingsway Cinema Ltd. George Smith was the Manager of Kingsway Cinema Ltd. Both were shareholders of Kingsway Cinema Ltd. This article about
369-526: A municipal muni-meter parking lot on East 17th Street at Chestnut Avenue just north of Avenue M. Many of the retail businesses are closed on Jewish holidays. On Coney Island Avenue in Midwood, primarily between Avenue H and Avenue P, are the U.S. Postal Service Midwood station (Zip Code 11230), The Kent Triplex Movie Theater , and other retailers. Between Avenue O and Quentin Road are Turkish restaurants and
410-480: A relatively high population of residents who are uninsured , or who receive healthcare through Medicaid . In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 16%, which is higher than the citywide rate of 12%. The concentration of fine particulate matter , the deadliest type of air pollutant , in Flatbush and Midwood is 0.0077 milligrams per cubic metre (7.7 × 10 oz/cu ft), lower than
451-494: Is covered by two ZIP Codes : 11230 west of East 21st Street and 11210 east of East 21st Street. The United States Postal Service operates three post offices nearby: Midwood is a diverse multi-ethnic and multi-religious neighborhood; however, the neighborhood is predominantly Jewish. In the 1980s and 1990s, a wave of Orthodox Jews moved into the area from Borough Park , attracted by Midwood's large homes and tree-lined streets. Today, in addition to Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews ,
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#1732775864319492-400: Is currently anchored by several chain stores and multiple ethnic food stores. Unique businesses include several high fashion outlets, jewelry stores, and sushi restaurants. The first Original Crazy Eddie store was located on Kings Hwy., then moved to larger quarters just south of Kings Highway on Coney Island Avenue. Nostrand Avenue was known for fashionable boutiques. As retailers retired,
533-612: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages James Welsh (Paisley MP) Born in Paisley , Welsh owned a cinemas in Glasgow , and served for many years on Glasgow City Council . He was elected at the 1929 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley , but was defeated at the 1931 general election by the Liberal Party candidate Joseph Maclay . Long
574-427: Is located at 1635 East 14th Street. As of 2018 , preterm births are more common in Flatbush and Midwood than in other places citywide, though births to teenage mothers are less common. In Flatbush and Midwood, there were 99 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 17.1 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide). Flatbush and Midwood has
615-427: Is lower than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 77% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", slightly less than the city's average of 78%. For every supermarket in Flatbush and Midwood, there are 21 bodegas . Hospitals in Midwood include Mount Sinai Brooklyn and New York Community Hospital . Additionally, SUNY Downstate Medical Center is located in nearby Flatbush. Midwood
656-669: Is slightly higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 25% are between the ages of 0–17, 29% between 25–44, and 24% between 45–64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 9% and 13% respectively. As of 2016, the median household income in Community Board 14 was $ 56,599. In 2018, an estimated 22% of Flatbush and Midwood residents lived in poverty, compared to 21% in all of Brooklyn and 20% in all of New York City. One in eleven residents (9%) were unemployed, compared to 9% in
697-471: The City University of New York , and on the south by Avenue P and Kings Highway . The eastern border consists of parts of Nostrand Avenue , Flatbush Avenue , and Coney Island Avenue; parts of McDonald Avenue and Ocean Parkway mark the western boundary. Midwood is part of Brooklyn Community District 14 , and its primary ZIP Codes are 11210 and 11230. It is patrolled by the 70th Precinct of
738-874: The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty , a beneficiary agency of the UJA-Federation of New York , partnered with Masbia to open a kosher soup kitchen on Coney Island Avenue . There are many yeshivos in Midwood. These include the Mirrer Yeshiva , Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin , Yeshiva Toras Emes Kaminetz , Mosdos Veretzky , Yeshiva of Brooklyn, Yeshiva Ohr Naftali, Yeshiva Tiferes Shmuel, Yeshivas Ohr Yisrael, Yeshivas Vyelipol, Yeshiva Ateret Torah, Yeshivat Mikdash Melech, and Yeshivas Beis Yosef Novardok . St. Brendan's Parish and Our Lady Help of Christians are two Roman Catholic Church congregations located in Midwood. The Church of
779-743: The National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The Kingsway Jewish Center is an historic synagogue from the 1950s on Nostrand Avenue. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. There are several branches of Touro College there, a college that was started in 1970. Midwood is also home to several large orthodox synagogues, including Congregation Beth Torah, the Young Israel of Midwood, Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin of Avenue L, Congregation Talmud Torah of Flatbush, Beis Medrash Ahavas Dovid Apsha under
820-721: The New York City Police Department . Politically, Midwood is represented by the New York City Council 's 44th, 45th, and 48th districts. The name "Midwood" derives from the Middle Dutch Midwout (middle woods; Modern Dutch : Midwoud), the name the settlers of New Netherland called the area of dense woodland midway between the towns of Boswyck (Bushwick) and Breuckelen (Brooklyn). Jan Snedeker, Jan Stryker, and Tomys Swartwout solicited from Director-General Stuyvesant
861-483: The 19th century included modern Midwood. The usage of Flatbush to mean Midwood dates to the period when the neighborhood was first formed, and known as South Greenfield. Many also consider the nearby neighborhood of Fiske Terrace /Midwood Gardens to be part of Midwood, but, as in many cities, neighborhood boundaries in Brooklyn are somewhat fluid and poorly defined. Based on data from the 2020 United States Census ,
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#1732775864319902-850: The Court of Midwout. Later, it became part of old Flatbush, situated between the towns of Gravesend and Flatlands . Settlement was begun by the Dutch in 1652; they later gave way to the English, who conquered it in 1664, but the area remained rural and undeveloped for the most part until its annexation to the City of Brooklyn in the 1890s. It became more developed in the 1920s when large middle class housing tracts and apartment buildings were built. Many residents refer to Midwood as "Flatbush", or, erroneously, as being "part of Flatbush ", an older and more established neighborhood and former township, which in
943-710: The Grand Ole Opry, former house of Catherine Grey , Dowager Countess of Stamford and Warrington from second marriage of George Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford The Novelty Theatre , a 1882 London theatre renamed the Great Queen Street Theatre from 1900 to 1907 renamed the Kingsway Theatre from 1907 to 1941, accessed from the new-in-1905 Kingsway Road Scotland [ edit ] Kingsway Cinema, corner of King Street and Frederick Street, Aberdeen, opened 1 March 1939, now
984-733: The Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox serves the Greek residents of the community. The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany also serves the community. The area around Newkirk Avenue has one of the largest mosques in Brooklyn, the Muslim Community Center of Brooklyn , also known as Makki Masjid. Flatbush and Midwood generally has a similar ratio of college-educated residents to the rest of the city as of 2018 . Though 43% of residents age 25 and older have
1025-654: The actors and actresses working on Avenue M in the NBC studios at that time. Restaurant Bonaparte was known for its "Three Musketeers". It also had a wishing well fountain in its lobby entrance, filled with customers' coins. The Avenue has an elevated subway station . Near the end of June each year, the Midwood Development Corporation hosts the popular Midwood Mardi Gras Street Fair along the Avenue, from East 12th Street to Ocean Avenue. Shoppers can find
1066-458: The area are Kings Highway , Avenue J, Avenue M, Flatbush Avenue , Nostrand Avenue , and Coney Island Avenue . In the 1950s through the 1970s, Kings Highway had Dubrow's Cafeteria , a classic cafeteria where holes would be punched in patrons' printed tickets, which would total the cost of the meal. In his run for the White House , Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy held
1107-410: The area is home to a burgeoning Sephardic population. Along Kings Highway from Coney Island to McDonald Avenues are many Middle Eastern style restaurants and take-out food shops. The East Midwood Jewish Center , a Conservative synagogue, was founded in 1924. The building, located on Ocean Avenue , is a 1929 Renaissance revival structure with a capacity of 950 in the main sanctuary. It was listed on
1148-527: The city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 372 per 100,000 people was lower than that of the city as a whole. The 70th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 89.1% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 6 murders, 27 rapes, 162 robberies, 273 felony assaults, 173 burglaries, 527 grand larcenies, and 75 grand larcenies auto in 2018. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY)'s Engine Co. 276/Ladder Co. 156/Battalion 33, which serves Midwood,
1189-486: The citywide and boroughwide averages. Ten percent of Flatbush and Midwood residents are smokers , which is slightly lower than the city average of 14%. In Flatbush and Midwood, 28% of residents are obese , 13% are diabetic , and 31% have high blood pressure —compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. 21% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%. Eighty percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which
1230-533: The field during school hours. There are two public pedestrian plazas in Midwood: Midwood is patrolled by the 70th Precinct of the NYPD , located at 154 Lawrence Avenue. The 70th Precinct ranked 30th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. As of 2018 , with a non-fatal assault rate of 42 per 100,000 people, Flatbush and Midwood's rate of violent crimes per capita was less than that of
1271-672: The field is the Erasmus Hall High School football field (closed to the public when not in use). The sprawling square block-long Midwood High School Field (East 16th–17th Street at Avenues K-L) features handball courts, tennis courts, a runners track and a field used for football, rugby and soccer. On June 2, 1958, a Maccabiah event was held at the field, at which Olympic weightlifting champion Isaac Berger , U.S. racewalking champion Henry Laskau , and Olympic hammer throw competitor Marty Engel gave exhibitions. Students from adjacent Edward R. Murrow High School also use
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1312-625: The leadership of Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Beck Shlita - The Apsha Rav, the minyan factory known as Landau's Shul (offering minyanim every 15 minutes on an average day ), Rabbi Avraham Schorr 's former synagogue, known as Khal Tiferes Yaakov on East 15th Street and Avenue L, the Bostoner Rebbe on Avenue J, Steinwurtzels, the Young Israel of Avenue J, the Agudah of Midwood, and several Syrian Orthodox synagogues. Synagogues based out of homes, called shtiebelach , are also common. In November 2009,
1353-407: The other; Avenue K doesn't. Ryder Avenue and Roder do neither: Though they are the same one-way road, their names differ by one letter. Ryder begins at McDonald Avenue, reaches Ocean Parkway, disappears on the opposite for one short block, then continues as Roder, ending at Coney Island Avenue. Midwood had several movie theaters, now mostly closed: The Avalon Theater opened on January 25, 1928, and
1394-647: The past it was home to Cookie's, one of Brooklyn's best known restaurants and hang-outs (also popular with the NBC studio staff), today there are no fewer than ten kosher restaurants and three kosher bakeries. From the 1920s through the 1940s, the Dorman Square Restaurant was popular with the Vitagraph studios employees, as well as playing a role in a Vitagraph film or two. Until the 1970s, Avenue M had its own movie theater . One of Brooklyn's Italian restaurants, Restaurant Bonaparte, also catered to
1435-418: The population of Midwood was 52,835. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 73.6% White , 11.8% Asian , 7.6% Hispanic/Latino , 4.6% Black and 2.4% Other. There were 16% of residents over the age of 65. The entirety of Community Board 14, which comprises Flatbush and Midwood, had 165,543 inhabitants as of NYC Health 's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 82.4 years. This
1476-418: The rest of both Brooklyn and New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 57% in Flatbush and Midwood, higher than the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018 , Flatbush and Midwood are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying . The main shopping streets in
1517-467: The right of settling together on a level area of wilderness ( vlacke bosch , the flat bush), adjacent to the outlying farms at Breukelen and Nieuw Amersfoort . Through Swartwout's suggestion, the settlement was named the village of Midwout or Midwolde . In April 1655, Stuyvesant and the Council of New Netherland appointed Swartwout a schepen (magistrate), to serve with Snedeker and Adriaen Hegeman as
1558-429: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kingsway Theatre . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kingsway_Theatre&oldid=1171462455 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1599-412: The street changed and became known for its automobile showrooms. A U.S. Postal Service facility (Zip Code 11210) can be found on Nostrand Avenue between Avenues I and J. Avenue J is a major business street in Midwood, with many kosher restaurants, deli , pizzerias, and butchers. Avenue M, another one of the major business streets of Midwood, is a central location for kosher food and butchers. While in
1640-482: Was located on Kings Highway at the southwest corner of East 18th Street. Originally built by a local Brooklyn company as the Piccadilly, it was sold prior to opening to Loews Theaters , which changed the name to Avalon. Designed by Samuel Cohen, the combined auditoriums (the main or lobby floor and the upstairs or balcony) seated 2,119 which included on the lobby floor a separate seating for children. It also featured
1681-566: Was located on the site of the apartment complex at 1279 East 17th St. (just north of Ave. M) until it was torn down in the mid-1960s. Parks include Kolbert Park and the Rachel Haber Cohen Playground and adjacent handball and basketball courts , near Edward R. Murrow High School , and the track and playing fields of Brooklyn College and Midwood High School . Friends Field at East Second Street and Avenue L features baseball diamonds and tennis courts. Just opposite