Academy Of Music

Academy of Music was designed by Thomas W. Lamb and built in 1927 across the street from the site of an earlier venue of the same name. Opened as a deluxe movie palace by movie mogul William Fox, the Academy operated as a movie theater through the early 1970s. Beginning in 1971, it was also utilized as a rock concert venue, sometimes referred to as Howard Stein's Academy of Music, to fill a gap left by the closure of the Fillmore East. It was rechristened The Palladium in 1976, and continued to serve as a concert hall into the following decade and a nightclub run by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, of Studio 54 fame.