1. Landmark Sunshine Cinema – East Houston Street

From the book New York Nights

The Sunshine Cinema is a theater owned by Landmark Theatres, occupying a building that was once the Houston Hippodrome motion picture theatre and a Yiddish vaudeville house. While the building was constructed in 1893, the Sunshine Cinema has been operating for 2001. Sunshine is an art house dedicated to independent films. Landmark Theatres, which often renovates the buildings it purchases to restore its original feel, owns several other vintage buildings. [Update this theater has closed and was demolished].

Bonus:  Spectacle – Williamsburg

We’re saving the best (or the smallest) for last. Spectacle is an independent theater in Williamsburg that contains only 30 seats and is run by volunteers. Its drawing point is that it shows films that probably do not get screened anywhere else. Specializing in only the obscurest of art films and overlooked works throughout the decades, Spectacle runs seven days a week.

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