Cinema Art

The address for the Cinema Art is 289 River St., Troy, NY. 12180.

wow. not to many theaters still running adult films this has to be one of the few.

Can anyone think of any NEW YORK theater other than this still running adult films (an old movie house not an adult store)

The Polk and Fair both here in Queens as well as Cinema Kings Highway in Brooklyn still run adult films. It is actually video projection.

The Paris Cinema I & II in Syracuse shows adult films.

wow. did not think there were that many left doing xxx

This ad is supposed to be from May of 1968:
http://gravediggervideo.com/ads/tobea6805.jpg

Hi, this is Bob Plante from the Movie Ad Archive site mentioned above. I grew up in Troy; in high school the big thing was to somehow get into the Cinema Art to see CALIGULA. I have a ton of ads from the place.

The theater was raided and padlocked--several customers and the manager were arrested. From the Troy Record:


03/03/2006
Last picture show? Cinema Art raided
By: R.W. Groneman , The Record

TROY - Police led away one unidentified man in hand restraints Thursday night following a raid by city and State Police at the Cinema Art Theater, a long-running adult entertainment center at 289 River St.
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About a dozen persons and at least one employee were in the theater at the time of the 7:15 p.m. raid, according to Det. Sgt. John Cooney, a spokesman for the city Police Department. Also inside were about a half dozen undercover troopers from the State Police.
Police arrived at the theater with a search warrant as part of "an ongoing investigation into activities in the premises," Cooney said.
"There will be multiple charges and multiple arrests," Cooney said at the scene. He said details will be released at a press conference at 10 a.m. today at Troy Police headquarters. He declined to provide more details Thursday night.
The theater, also knows as Cinema Art Show World, has exhibited X-rated movies for about four decades. In recent years it added private viewing booths. A sign on the door advertised DVDs and tapes for sale. Another sign cautioned that no minors were allowed inside.
In the normally quiet downtown area, Troy Police cruisers blocked off River Street between Second and Third streets.
About 20 minutes after the raid began, a bystander reported observing two apparent customers - one a man about 30 years old, and an older man - exit the theater individually, walk to their parked cars on River Street and drive away past the blocking police cruisers.
The police action involving about 20 officers "went off without incident," Cooney said.
The operation was under the direction of Troy Police Capt. John Reigert, head of the Community Police Service Bureau. He deferred all questions to Cooney, the official police spokesman.
Cooney said it is common practice to enlist the support of the State Police for undercover operations.
Police left the scene at about 9:45 p.m. A code enforcement officer posted the building as closed.
While the raid was going on, the Troy City Council at its regular meeting a block away at City Hall on Monument Square was discussing an ordinance for the removal of junk cars.
Although not present at the scene, Mayor Harry Tutunjian "was aware of the ongoing investigation," said his spokesman, Jeff Buell.
Buell arrived at the theater about an hour after the raid began.
Police officers were seen exiting the scene with handheld video cameras. Several boxes, perhaps of evidence, were loaded by police into an unmarked van. Rensselaer County District Attorney Patricia DeAngelis arrived later with a handful of aides.

Since at least the early '90s this theater was converted into video projection. I hope they dump the porn and make it a real 2nd-run specialty theater.

Plantweed, it will never happen
if porn isn't your thing, then avert your attention to something that is
if you want to see a movie, go to a movie theater
if you want to see porn, go to an adult theater.
those who are opposed shouldn't meddle, they should mind; you know . . . their own business

This is a March 15, 2007 article about the Cinema Art.

This theater is closed, and the marquee has been removed from the building. It's currently for sale. It would make a GREAT art house, and could easily be divided into two or three screens.

I was in Troy today on business. After I completed my scheduled tasks for the day I walked around downtown Troy for about two hours taking pictures of old buildings being given new life.
I wandered around taking pictures until I got hungry, just barely a block from the cafe I was considering, were the telltale steel remnants of a marquee and the curved entry of a movie house.
The building has almost totally been stripped of architectural importance, save the leaf pendant on the very tip of the building.
Here are the pictures:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v489/avkid/Cinema_Art/?action=view¤t=100_2058-1.jpg

Vintage ads for the Cinema Art can be found here:
http://plantweed.blogspot.com/search?q=cinema+art

Any updates on the future of the Cinema Art?

The theater is advertising "talking sound pictures" in this photo, which probably dates it around 1928:
http://tinyurl.com/27zapd

Is the original photo as blurry as the photos that your posting, or is it the method that your using to capture these photos causing the problem? I've seen some of these photos on the web in books that are for sale. Those photos are much sharper.

Still closed. See my photos of the building http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/7874.html

Here are some night photos from 1983:

Photo1

Photo2

Photo3

Saw this theatre while on a bike trip 2 weeks ago. Still closed of course and really hard to get around the back to see the building since it's right over the railroad tracks.