The Audubon Ballroom and Theater, located at 3940 Broadway between 165th and 166th Streets, was opened in 1912 by William Fox. The Audubon was one of the first theaters in the Fox theater group for vaudeville and movies to come to Washington Heights and Inwood.

The Audubon Ballroom is most notoriously known as where Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965.

It was recently demolished to make way for expanding research centers belonging to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. A compromise was reached with members of the local community, so that a memorial to Malcolm X was erected along with the research center, behind the facade of the original building.


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