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MOVIE REVIVAL Boro kicks off
Nitehawk Cinema opens in
former Park Slope theater
The previews are fi nally over!
Nitehawk Cinema opened the
doors of its long-awaited Park
Slope multiplex on Wednesday,
following a more than two-year
renovation project. The new 650-
seat, seven-screen theater features
35mm reel-to-reel projectors —
including machines formerly
owned by auteur Martin Scorsese
and media mogul Rupert Murdoch
times the size of Nitehawk’s fl agship
Williamsburg cinema.
Nitehawk Prospect Park —
as owner Matthew Viragh has
branded it — will host screenings
of both blockbuster and art-house
fl icks, in addition to showing reruns
classics as part of its Signature
Series program. One of the largest
theaters also features a wide
stage that will be used for lectures
and other live performances, according
The “dine-in” movie house
FILM BUFF: Nitehawk Cinema owner Matthew Viraugh inside the new Park
Slope movie house he meticulously restored. Photo by Trey Pentecost
‘Better’ and better Raccoons on the run!
BY COLIN MIXSON
BY COLIN MIXSON
digital projectors and three
— and is more than three
of Hollywood and foreign
to a spokesman.
Addled raccoons possibly
infected with the dog-killing
distemper virus are
wandering out of Prospect
Park and onto the streets
of surrounding neighborhoods,
according to residents
who reported no less
than three sightings, including
also offers table-side food and
beverage service. The menu, designed
Schuman-Strange, features entrees
including tater tots and homemade
popcorn served with truffl e butter
has also introduced a “Dine and
Dash” option for those who purchase
card — anything ordered during
the fi lm is automatically charged
to the card, so movie-goers will
not have to wait for the check.
The theater also hosts two full
bars for ticket holders to visit before
ies more interested in catching
a buzz than a blockbuster.
The 1928-built Sanders Theater
served Park Slope as the
neighborhood’s only movie house
until 1978, then sat largely empty
until 1995, when the cinema reopened
one Kensington
woman who claimed the
masked bandits are literally
falling from the sky.
Local Phyllis Klein said
a “huge” raccoon fell — either
from a tree, or off the
side of a building — feet
from her head during a
midday Dec. 11 stroll along
by executive chef Blessing
such as the signature Nitehawk
Burger, along with snacks
beef jerky, and artisanal
and citric salt. The cinema
their tickets with a credit
or after the fi lms, or for barfl
as the infamously dumpy
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E. Seventh Street between
Church and Caton avenues,
before the beast limped off
in a daze.
“I wish I could un-see
it,” she said. “It still gives
me chills.”
Klein’s encounter with
the seemingly sick raccoon
Kwanzaa with
annual Crawl
BY ALEXANDRA SIMON
It’s black for the third time!
The business-boosting Kwanzaa
Crawl will return for its
third year on Dec. 26, sending
thousands of bar hoppers to 25
black-owned bars and restaurants
scattered from Park Slope
to Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The day-long event, which also
happens in Manhattan’s Harlem
neighborhood, is the brainchild
of two Caribbean-American sisters
who said they wanted to focus
on black economic power on
the fi rst day of the pan-African
holiday.
In a year when a white manager
called the cops on two black
men sitting inside a Starbucks ,
and Flatbush nail salon employees
attacked two black customers
, it is more important than
ever for the black community to
prioritize black businesses, said
the event’s co-founder.
“When companies or businesses
like that nail salon or
Starbucks mess up, that’s when
we start to look for black-owned
coffee shops and black-owned
nail salons,” said Kerry Coddett.
“With the Kwanzaa Crawl, I want
black people to start becoming
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
She’s talkin’ bout a resolution!
A Bushwick comedienne
will detail her goals
for self-improvement at
a New Year’s resolutionthemed
comedy show on
Boxing Day.
The host of “Next Year
I Will Be Better,” at the
Brick in Williamsburg on
Dec. 26, hopes that making
her plans public will help
turn her dreams for the
New Year into reality.
“My New Year’s resolutions
are the same lofty
goals that everyone else
has: I want to exercise every
day, eat healthier, save
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Randi Lass
STAY AWAY: Dog walker
Randi Lass spotted this
sickly raccoon in Windsor
Terrace on Nov. 25.
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