Let’s Save NYC’s Oldest Independently Owned Cinema

The Brooklyn Heights Cinema is a no frills, not-of-this-time, two screen theater on Henry Street. Within the white brick establishment you’ll find a humble snack counter with an aging popcorn machine, and a couple of good pictures rotating in on the screens every month or so. Outside, they often personalize messages on the marquee (recent ones have invited Banksy to paint their walls, and offered Bill Murray free tickets). It is the perfect date theater, the perfect place to see a movie alone, it has been there since 1970, it “is the oldest and longest running independently owned and operated cinema remaining in New York City,” and it would be a goddamn travesty if it shut down. So let’s save it?