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Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan

📍 Financial District, Manhattan

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Dine-in cinema at 28 Liberty with food served during the movie and a bar.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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28 Liberty St, New York, NY 10005 · Map

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Angelika Film Center

📍 SoHo, Manhattan

Closed · check hours (NY time)

Classic downtown art-house cinema for independent and foreign films, with a café upstairs.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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18 W Houston St, New York, NY 10012 · Map

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Anthology Film Archives

📍 East Village, Manhattan

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An East Village archive and cinema for avant-garde, experimental and rare films in an old courthouse.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003 · Map

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Cinema Village

📍 Greenwich Village, Manhattan

Closed · check hours (NY time)

One of the city's oldest continuously running cinemas, showing indie films and documentaries.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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22 E 12th St, New York, NY 10003 · Map

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Film at Lincoln Center

📍 Upper West Side, Manhattan

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Home of the New York Film Festival, with daily screenings of new art-house releases and repertory series.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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144 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023 · Map

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Film Forum

📍 Greenwich Village, Manhattan

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A nonprofit cinema on Houston Street screening independent premieres and classic film series.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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209 W Houston St, New York, NY 10014 · Map

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IFC Center

📍 Greenwich Village, Manhattan

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A Sixth Avenue art-house cinema with indie premieres, documentaries and cult midnight screenings.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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323 6th Ave, New York, NY 10014 · Map

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Metrograph

📍 Lower East Side, Manhattan

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A Lower East Side cinema showing 35mm repertory and new releases, with a bookshop and restaurant.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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7 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002 · Map

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Paris Theater

📍 Midtown, Manhattan

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The city's last single-screen movie palace, by the Plaza, showing new releases and classic series.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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4 W 58th St, New York, NY 10019 · Map

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Quad Cinema

📍 Greenwich Village, Manhattan

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Four-screen Village art house showing new independent and international films plus curated retrospectives, with a bar.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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34 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011 · Map

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Roxy Cinema

📍 Tribeca, Manhattan

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Single-screen cinema in the basement of the Roxy Hotel, mostly 35mm classics and repertory, with a bar.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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2 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013 · Map

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Village East by Angelika

📍 East Village, Manhattan

Closed · check hours (NY time)

Movie theater inside a landmark 1926 Yiddish theater, with an ornate main auditorium.

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⏱ Est. time spent: 2–3 hrs

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181 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003 · Map

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Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan

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Paris Theater

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Village East by Angelika

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