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 [...]
Looking Ahead: The UC’s List of Things To Do
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Wall and Bridges – “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Isaac Newton Thursday, January 27 thru February 4th – Various locales around NYC Over the course of three 10-day series, in the winter, spring and fall of 2011 in New York City, Walls and Bridges—a program curated by the [...]
The Uptowner Profiles Inwood Native & Incoming Head of Public Library System
By Medina Roshan On a recent visit to the Inwood branch library, Anthony Marx was blown away by the 2001 renovations. It wasn’t just the increased space or modern finishes that impressed him, but what he called “the aliveness of the place” and “the most amazing mix of New Yorkers” he found there. “It was [...]
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