Ghost Light: Illuminating Our City’s Theaters: RKO Coliseum | NYPL
By Jeremy Megraw A thing of beauty is a joy forever… — Keats (quoted in opening night program, B. S. Moss’ Coliseum Theatre, 1920) The end of 2011 also brought the quiet demise of the last movie theater in Washington Heights, Coliseum Cinemas. Known to most residents as the RKO Coliseum, the large theater, occupying the [...]
Washington Heights locals want to save movie theater | NY Daily News
By Michael J. Feeney Jeff Hoppa still remembers taking his 5-year-old son to his first movie at Coliseum Cinemas in Washington Heights last year. They took pictures inside and enjoyed the Easter Bunny-starring movie, ‘Hop.’ Several months later, Hoppa walked by the W. 181st St. theater and noticed it was closed. Now, he’s leading a [...]
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