A Death In The Neighborhood
Tucked away in the basment of a luxury high-rise, there is a great theater just blocks away from our apartment that hosts first run movies for the now unheard of price of $5 a ticket. And to top it off, they have a lovingly restored pipe organ played before weekend shows and their annual silent movie festival. Over the years we have lived in New York, Beth and I have seen dozens of movies at the Galaxy Triplex and tonight, we wanted to do it again.
One problem though — for some reason, we couldn't find show time information in the usual online places. After a short Goggle search, we found out why — on January 11, 2007 the Galaxy ran it's last movie. Soaring rents and shrinking attendance brought on by nearby multiplexes had forced the Galaxy out of business. This was a blow to us. We have a lot of fun memories from that theater and it was one of things that brought our neighborhood personality and charm. We'll miss the place.
Comments
What a shame about the Galaxy. When Ryan and I lived in DC, we loved to go to the Uptown in Cleveland Park. We liked to sit in the balcony and watch movies such as Rear Window (God is that great on the big screen) and the early Star Wars triology. There was talk of it closing a few years ago, but the neightborhood has managed to keep it.
Posted by: Your sister | May 12, 2007 10:41 PM
I can understand your feelings as I owned and ran a little 2-screen theater in Westboro MA, which was forced to close by the multiplexes. So many people still recognize me and comment on how much they miss our artsy theater. Others are surprised to find that years later, the building and we are gone....obviously we missed their support in making us viable. Hope you and Beth make it up for a belated birthday visit with Uncle Jim.
Posted by: Andrea Edmonds | July 2, 2007 7:54 AM