Some more decade-spanning looks at 5th Street and Avenue B

On Monday, we shared a post from Ephemeral New York about the Loew's Avenue B Theater, a grand movie palace that was on the SW corner of Fifth Street and Avenue B from 1913 to the late 1950s. 

The 1,750-seat theater was demolished in 1968. Julius Klein shared all the photos on this page, a collection he assembled while living with Raken Leaves next door to the old theater at 60 Avenue B from 1982 to 1994. 

The top photo is dated 1917, and the one below is from 1920 (the arrow points to where he lived decades later at No. 60 between Fourth Street and Fifth Street).

... 1965...

Klein told us that during 10 years of his time at No. 60, he served as the head of the tenant association, where rent strikes became common...