Greenwich Village, in Manhattan
Cinema Village
Arthouse Cinema · 22 E 12th St
A firehouse from 1898 on East 12th Street, converted into a movie theater that has been running ever since on three screens.
Horgan & Slattery built it as a firehouse. Alexander Zamshnick handled the conversion, and it opened as a 310-seat single-screen theater on October 5, 1964 with Ingmar Bergman's All These Women.
Through its first three decades it worked as a repertory house, running vintage classics and cult titles on ever-changing double bills. Home video and real estate pressure undid that model, and the programming shifted to alternative first-run titles and midnight shows.
It is the oldest continuously operated cinema in Greenwich Village, and what it books now is foreign and independent work, much of which would not otherwise get a screen in the city at all.
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