The Strand Theater

The man who set a cooking fire in an abandoned downtown Binghamton theater pulled a knife on a person who discovered him inside the building.

Emergency crews were sent to the abandoned Strand Theater in downtown Binghamton to extinguish a fire that reportedly had been set on the second floor of the building.

It's been a half-century since law enforcement officers seized an X-rated movie from the Strand Theater in downtown Binghamton.

The century-old Strand Theater building in downtown Binghamton has seen some tough times over the last few decades but the place is about to get a new life.