More sad New York City movie news, following the shutting down of Kim’s Video (and the handing over of the collection to Sicily?), comes the news that the former Metro Theater on 99th and Broadway will soon become an Urban Outfitters.

via Gothamist:

The NY Times reports that the former Metro Theater, on the Upper West Side at Broadway and 99th Street, will become a 15,000 square foot Urban Outfitters. Winick Realty Group president Benjamin Fox said, “It’s a testament to Urban’s strength in the marketplace and to their design approach. There were other spaces of similar size available, but the way they build their interiors is such that they fell in love with this place because of its uniqueness.”

I love how Urban Outfitters somehow thinks it is cool to turn a beautiful theater into an overpriced clothing store filled with poor quality clothes.  And more than that, that they claim that their idea to turn an important cultural place into a clothing store is proof of their good business sense.  Sigh, I wonder what Woody Allen thinks of this?

As Gothamist also pointed out, Woody put the theater in his film Hannah and her Sisters. Watch below and then takepart to support a great movie theater that is still in New York City (and is still a movie theater).