ENGINE 72/SATELLITE 2 3929 TREMONT AVENUE THROGGS NECK, BRONX DIVISION 7, BATTALION 20 “NEVER A DULL MOMENT”
22 E 12TH STREET MANHATTAN ENGINE 72 FORMER FIREHOUSE
2020 Village Awardee: Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street
Cinema Village, located at 22 East 12th Street, is the oldest continuously operated cinema in Greenwich Village and one of the oldest continuously operated art cinemas in the city. And this year it is one of our Village Awardees!
Located in an altered former firehouse built in 1898, the theater opened to the general public on October 5, 1964 with Ingmar Bergman’s All These Women. Through most of its early years, Cinema Village was one of the city’s many repertory cinemas, showcasing vintage movies, cult classics, and contemporary favorites on double bills (aka double features) that would usually change three times a week. By the late 1980s – and due to the surge in home video, buyouts by large-name theaters, and real estate development – commercial repertory cinema all but disappeared in New York City. Cinema Village escaped closure, surviving by presenting limited engagements of unconventional first-run shows, as well as some special midnight shows such as David Lynch’s first film “Eraserhead”, which ran for a year. In the early 1990s, before Jackie Chan, John Woo, Michele Yeoh and their stunt coordinators went to Hollywood, Cinema Village became known through its annual festivals and other bookings as the place to see the Hong Kong films of what would soon be acknowledged as a golden age of film making.
https://www.villagepreservation.org...e-awardee-cinema-village-22-east-12th-street/