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Cinépolis Chelsea is a popular independent movie theater in Chelsea, Manhattan. It is owned by leading Mexican theater chain Cinépolis. “Cinépolis” is Spanish for “cinema city.” Latin Culture at Cinépolis Chelsea November 2022 The 11th Dominican Film Festival New York 2022 is at the United Palace and Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, Cinépolis…

Astoria, Queens is the northwest corner of Queens, across the East River from Manhattan. It’s the home of the Museum of the Moving Image, Noguchi Museum, and Socrates Sculpture Park. Ditmars Blvd | Astoria BlvdEast River | Astoria | 49th St36th Ave The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (Triborough) and Hell Gate Bridge leap across the…

The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in Astoria, Queens is NYC’s museum of film, television, video games, and digital culture. MoMI screens films daily. The collection holds over 130,000 objects. Educational programs serve around 70,000 students every year. The museum is on the site of the historic 1920 Astoria Studios, now Kaufman Astoria Studios.…

The Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows Corona Park is the big art museum in Queens. The Panorama of the City of New York is a diorama of New York City. The world’s largest scale model was created for the 1964 World Fair and is periodically updated. queensmuseum.org The museum hosts community events focused…

Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s East Village is a bit of a counterculture park – like the neighborhood. It’s calmer now, but the park has been a protest site since the 1870s. There were Vietnam War protests in the 1960s. In the 1980s, the NYPD used extreme violence to clear a homeless encampment – and…

Puerto Rico really is the island of enchantment. Famous for some of the world’s best beaches, the mountain heartland is even more beautiful. We are both contemporary and conservative. Old ways survive, especially in the mountains. The drum is alive in Puerto Rico. The island is so many things you never imagined. It is famously…

IFC Center is a five-screen, state-of-the-art, independent movie theater in Manhattan’s West Village. It is the AMC Networks cinema. The former Waverly Theater popularized the Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1976. The Year at IFC Center The Former Waverly Theater Today, IFC Center launches independent films that feed into the Independent Film Channel. It also…

“In the Heights” is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning Broadway play about three days at bodega (corner store) in the Dominican barrio of Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan. It’s also Jon M. Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians) 2021 film adaptation which opened the Tribeca Film Festival all over New York City. How cool is it that an American…