For 17 years, Manhattan’s Metro Theater has been collecting dust on the Upper West Side. Since 2005, the 82-year-old Art Deco theater has sat vacant, nearly home to numerous tenants — Urban Outfitters, Planet Fitness, Alamo Drafthouse, an arts education nonprofit — all of which eventually fell through. Now, though, it’s official: A lease has finally been signed and the historic building will stay a cinema.
Source: Long-abandoned Manhattan cinema to become boutique theater