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End of an era in Forest Hills
posted by
Michael Zoldessy
on
April 28, 2014 at 3:45 pm
FOREST HILLS, NY — The neighborhood favorite Brandon Cinemas closed last weekend after almost four decades in business. The plan is to open a pediatric health facility in its place. While mostly know recently for playing art-house films, when it was a single-screen in the ‘70s it did big business with “Star Wars.”
Read more in DNAinfo.
(Thanks to Ross Melnick for providing the photo.)
Comments (1)
And another piece of the old neighborhood is gone. I saw so many good films here through the years—most recently “Captain Phillips” and “Saving Mr. Banks.” It was a nice middle ground between the mostly popcorn flicks at the Midway and the arty films at the Kew Gardens Cinema.