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rm: The fate of many movie palaces: to wind up as chain stores. More disheartening than I can say; this makes me think of Follies. When I go home, I'm going to close my eyes, and think about the Embassy Theater in Wellington, with its stained glass windows and piano in the upstairs lounge (and upstairs lounge, come to that).
Nicole Claden, 24, who lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, said she was glad the Chopin Theater had become a Starbucks. “I’m terrified of movie theaters these days because people are getting bedbugs in them,” she said. “I also like pumpkin spice lattes.”
But Sarah Schilling, 78, lamented the loss of her local cinema on the Upper East Side to yet another Duane Reade. “You get so used to things changing all the time we don’t remember — and that’s a waste.”
rm: The fate of many movie palaces: to wind up as chain stores. More disheartening than I can say; this makes me think of Follies. When I go home, I'm going to close my eyes, and think about the Embassy Theater in Wellington, with its stained glass windows and piano in the upstairs lounge (and upstairs lounge, come to that).But Sarah Schilling, 78, lamented the loss of her local cinema on the Upper East Side to yet another Duane Reade. “You get so used to things changing all the time we don’t remember — and that’s a waste.”
