If you remember the Starlight Drive-in
Status: Demolished
Location: 460 S. Riverside Ave., Rte 9A,
Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520
Screens: 1
Capacity: 500 cars
Original owner: Built by Jerome Britchey
Opening date: August 18, 1948
Final season: 1973
What's there now: Shopping plaza anchored by Shop Rite Supermarket.
History: In 1945, the Van Cortlandt Manor House was sold outside the Van Cortlandt family for the first time in 250 years. Otis Taylor bought it in 1945. Upon his death in 1948, Jerome Britchey acquired it. He took down the barns and built the Starlite Drive-In where they had stood.