Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1964
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1963
A converted firehouse opens as Cinema Village
The building at 22 East 12th Street, a converted firehouse, opens as the Cinema Village movie theater in 1963. It becomes the oldest continuously operated cinema in Greenwich Village. The theater often screens independent films that other New York art cinemas pass over.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1975
Nick Nicolaou starts working at Cinema Village at 15 and later buys it
Nicholas Nicolaou, an immigrant from Cyprus who arrives in the United States at twelve, begins working at Cinema Village in 1975, when he is fifteen. He is general manager by eighteen and later buys the cinema. His story is told in Abel Ferrara's film The Projectionist.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2014
Cinema Village screens The Interview after the Sony hack
In the wake of the hack of Sony Pictures, which was blamed on North Korea, Cinema Village is one of only two Manhattan theaters to show the comedy The Interview in December 2014. The booking brings the small theater national attention.
Source: Wikipedia
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