Eagle Theater

About This Listing

Shows first-run movies from India and Pakistan

Place Details

Borough: Queens
Neighborhood: Jackson Heights
Categories: Performance, Theater

Place Matters Profile

The Jackson Heights South Asian community caters to its members’ cultural needs, ranging from religion, to food, to clothing, to entertainment. The Eagle Theater is a 450 seat movie theater owned by brothers Tahir Mehmood and Shahid Mehmood, originally of Pakistan. About 90% of the films screened at the Eagle are first-run products of “Bollywood,” the bustling Mumbai film industry.

Nominations

Anonymous Nominator

In the mid 1990s, after a stint as a porn theater, the Earle–a fixture in downtown Jackson Heights since the 1930s–was reborn the Eagle, a popular Indian and Pakistani-language movie house.

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