Located on the Grand Concourse south of Fordham Road, once a major theater center of the Bronx, the Loew’s Paradise Theater is the borough’s largest and most famous movie palace. Designed by theater architect John Eberson and opened in 1929, the 4000-seat Paradise was one of five so-called “Wonder Theaters” built for the New York-based Loew’s chain of movie theaters to serve the major metropolitan population centers outside midtown Manhattan