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a polite New Yorker you'll never meet.
Living my life in contradiction in New York, New York
-- a city that is so nice gentrified, they named it twice.
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Times Square, the way it was and should be: a look into the theatre formerly known as the Globe and Cine 1 & 2, Big Apple Theater .
“This small Art Moderne theatre was built by the Brandt Circuit, with Eugene DeRosa as architect, on part of the site of the by then demolished George M. Cohan’s Theatre. The New York first opened in 1938, showing Hollywood revivals and occasional first-runs. In 1957, when Brandt sold the Globe Theatre for conversion back into a playhouse (as the Lunt-Fontanne), the New York was re-named the Globe.
Due to its location at the crossroads of Broadway and 42nd Street, the Globe became a haven for "adult” movies before switching to hard-core pornography.
In the 1980s, it was twinned and became known as Cine 1 and 2. Before closing for demolition in the 1990s, the policy switched from porn to Spanish-speaking imports, sometimes shown without English subtitles.“
[via Cinema Treasures]