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With 70 Henry Street in Contract the Brooklyn Heights Cinema Will Close on August 27 and Look for a New Location

A spokesperson for Massey Knakal tells BHB that 70 Henry Street, currently the home of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, is in contract to be sold. The theater will go dark on Thursday, August 27 after 44 years of operation. Kenn Lowy, who has run the Cinema since 2011, has plans to open at a new […]

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Brooklyn Heights Cinema’s Kenn Lowy Responds To 70 Henry Street’s Owner Listing Building For Sale

The saga of 70 Henry Street continues as Tom Caruana, owner of the building, has listed it for sale this week with real estate agency Massey Knakal. As the property is currently home to the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, the Cinema’s owner, Kenn Lowy, has issued this response which has also been posted at the movie […]

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BHA, Brooklyn Heights Cinema Present Movie Night Thursday

The next BHA Social event, co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Cinema and the Brooklyn Heights Association will be this coming Thursday evening, December 12, at the Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange). Come at 7:30 to socialize with BHA representatives and neighbors while enjoying red wine donated by Montague Wine & Spirits. The movie, […]

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Landmarks Commission Rejects Second Cinema Site Plan

Although Brooklyn Heights Cinema owner Kenn Lowy spoke in favor of the proposal, The Brooklyn Paper reports that the Landmarks Preservation Commission has now rejected a second plan for a structure to replace the present Cinema building at 70 Henry Street that would have several floors of apartments and space for the Cinema on the […]

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Fate Of Cinema In Limbo, Landmarks Doesn’t Vote On 70 Henry Street Plan

The Landmarks Preservation Commission decided this week not to vote on plans to build condos on top of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema building at 70 Henry Street. In the proposal, the cinema would still occupy the first floor but with only one screen instead of the current two. Brooklyn Eagle: “We haven’t quite found the […]

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Brooklyn Heights Cinema Offers Discount to Furloughed Federal Workers

Kenn Lowy, owner of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) says he is offering a discount for furloughed federal government employees for the duration of the present government shutdown. If you show your federal employee ID, admission is $10. (The discount doesn’t apply to Friday afternoon matinee showings, for which the […]

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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

On Sunday evening, April 28 from 6:00 to 8:00 the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (at Orange) will celebrate “40 years of films being shown at the same location” with an evening of comedy, featuring NPR’s Ophira Eisenberg, along with Shelly Colman and Sean Donnelly, and surprise guests, followed by wine and snacks at […]

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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

This weekend is your last chance to see the Heights Players’ production of Steel Magnolias, which will be playing Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 2:00, at 26 Willow Place. On Saturday at noon, at the same location, Heights Players Theater for Children will present The Wizard of Oz, a “participation […]

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Last Minute Weekend Ideas: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) this weekend will be showing The Place Beyond the Pines, starring Ryan Gosling as a motorcycle stunt rider who turns to robbery to support his lover (Eva Mendes) and their child, and Bradley Cooper as the ambitious detective who pursues him. The Cinema is also continuing […]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

Theater 2020 will present a free reading of Oscar Wilde’s (photo) renowned romantic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest in the first floor auditorium of the endangered Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West (at Tillary Street) on Saturday afternoon (March 30) starting at 1:30 p.m. Wilde, it seems, was […]

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