Take 2: The Revived Tinker Street Cinema

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In the early aughts, Woodstock was still a town where you could let your dog out the front door to wander around the Village Green. The watering holes were always full and you could cross Mill Hill Road without looking both ways. Local art openings were frequent. The gritty, creative, sometimes tortured soul of Woodstock hummed along in a quiet, scrappy way, nurtured by a sometimes gruff-but-goodhearted population of musicians, painters, poets, and business owners.

In a town where the last five years’ influx of new residents, drawn by the eccentric mythology of Woodstock, has pushed out locals, precipitating both a housing and an identity crisis, it is a relief to see something come into familiar hands. When Upstate Films closed their Woodstock location in 2021, the future of the pre-Civil War church at 132 Tinker Street was uncertain. The building had been a cinema since the late ’60s and a town fixture.

Source: Take 2: The Revived Tinker Street Cinema | Film | Hudson Valley | Chronogram Magazine