United Palace Theater – ADA Accessibility Upgrade
New York, NY
United Palace Theater, located on Broadway and West 175th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, NY, was built in 1930 as one of the five (5) original Loews “Wonder Theatres” and one of the region’s premier vaudeville and movie houses. is a non-profit organization that owns. Its ornate interior design was described by The New York Times as “Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco” and a “kitchen sink masterpiece.” With more than 3,000 seats, it is the fourth largest venue of its kind in Manhattan. The project is to provide Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility upgrades to the facility including accessible bathrooms, stair lifts, motorized doors and locations for wheelchair seating in the Theater. Legacy Engineers provided mechanical, electrical and plumbing consulting engineering services for the project, beginning with a due diligence study followed by design and construction phases for three (3) new unisex/family ADA bathrooms; electric power for the stair lifts, motorized doors and aisle lighting for the wheel chair seating in the Theater.