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Bay Ridge’s Alpine Cinemas reopened to the public just in time for its centennial — making it one of the longest-operated theaters in the Big Apple. “Alpine Cinemas is the oldest theater in the five ...
Brooklyn’s Alpine Cinemas, the borough’s oldest movie theater, will soon be home to two site-specific installations by Untapped New York’s Artist-in-Residence Aaron Asis.
“Seeing it here on a major avenue in Brooklyn, I can’t put into words how amazing that is,” he said. Family and friends gathered inside the 103-year-old movie theater Saturday night to ...
BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn — The seats have been empty at Alpine Cinema and the rest of the movie theaters in New York since March. On Friday, some in the state will be cleared by the governor to ...
Titled Alpine: Under the Marquee, the site-specific installation features a black-and-white photo of Alpine Cinemas and the businesses that surrounded it in 1941. Brooklyn’s oldest theater ...
Local concern that the Alpine Cinema’s heralded four-star rescue would be a box office bomb appears to be much ado about nothing. Owner Nicolas Nicolaou is making good on his promise to restore the ...
They give character to the neighborhood.” The Alpine Theater in 1977, when “Saturday Night Fever” was released. Photo by Fred Ohleth And, he added, it benefits not only residents but merchants.
Alpine opened in the Silent Movie era in June of 1921. Nicolas Nicolaou bought the Bay Ridge institution 16 years ago and says it’s the oldest movie theater still open in the five boroughs.