Reprinted with permission from the Times Union
GREENPORT — The Greenport location of Cosmic Cinemas, the dinner-and-movie-house hybrid that once promised to renovate and reopen Albany’s historic Madison Theatre, shut its doors last week.
The Fairview Avenue theater was closed and its lights were off last Friday afternoon, during the theater’s normal operating hours. Signs taped to the doors and windows said, “There will be no showings today. We apologize for the inconvenience.” Cosmic’s website appears to be no longer active. Third-party movie ticket web pages list no future showings at the theater. And an employee at a liquor store next door said that the theater had been closed for about three days.
But the movie house will soon open its doors again under the same management that took over the historic, 90-year-old Madison Avenue theater, Kris Keisling, the cinema’s general manager, told the Times Union. Read more…