Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas was backing a plan to turn Metro Theater into a cinema with a food and bar component but the plans fell part. The theater has been vacant ever since 2005. Its pink terra cotta facade has landmarked in 1989, complicating development plans.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas was backing a plan to turn Metro Theater into a cinema with a food and bar component but the plans fell part. The theater has been vacant ever since 2005. Its pink terra cotta facade has landmarked in 1989, complicating development plans. ( Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

If it can raise $7 million by the end of the year, the Upper West Side Cinema Center can secure ownership of the Metro Theater that has been closed for nearly two decades.

Metro Theater Deal: NonProfit Seeks to Raise $7 Mil to Revive It as Art Film House
21 Nov 2024 | 05:19
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The show may finally go on for the Metro Theater on the Upper West Side.

Upper West Side Cinema Center, a nonprofit group, has an agreement with the estate of the theater’s former owner, Albert Bialek, who died in 2023, to buy the landmarked building on Broadway near W. 99th St.

But first it needs to...

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Eric Bottcher addresses reporters on Nov. 18 after a scaffolding collapse in on W. 29th St. injured three people. He was not aware at that time that a knife wielding maniac had already started a deadly spree that morning in Chelsea which would eventually claim three lives across Manhattan.
Eric Bottcher addresses reporters on Nov. 18 after a scaffolding collapse in on W. 29th St. injured three people. He was not aware at that time that a knife wielding maniac had already started a deadly spree that morning in Chelsea which would eventually claim three lives across Manhattan. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly)

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