[1] Vitagraph's main Brooklyn facility was located across East 14th Street on property occupied by the Shulamith School for Girls until 2010.
Warner Bros built the main studio, bordering on Locust Avenue, in 1936 for use as a short-subject production facility.
NBC bought the site in 1951 from Warner Brothers and converted the studio into a state-of-the-art color broadcasting facility.
Betty Hutton was the star of the first NBC show from what was dubbed Brooklyn Studio I, Satins and Spurs on 12 September 1954. Notable television shows originating at JC Studios while under NBC ownership include Peter Pan with Mary Martin, the Kraft Music Hall, Sing Along with Mitch starring Mitch Miller, A Night to Remember, Hullabaloo, The Sammy Davis Jr. Show, Tic Tac Dough and three 1976 episodes of Saturday Night Live.
In 2019 Brooklyn Studio II, opened by NBC on November 29, 1956, was converted to a self-storage facility.