New York City\u2019s first-ever \u201cArt House Cinema Week\u201d is underway but the Bronx is notably absent.<\/p>\n
The weeklong celebration highlights independent theaters across the city that showcase foreign, documentary and arthouse films. But a map of participating locations shows only four boroughs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI, for one, was very disappointed The Bronx wasn\u2019t on the map,\u201d one community member said.<\/p>\n
Art House New York, the organization behind the event, says The Bronx is included \u2013 pointing to the Bronx Independent Cinema Center as a participating partner.<\/p>\n
But that claim is being disputed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are no longer a part of Art House Theater Week. That was news to us,\u201d said Gregory Hernandez, executive director of the Bronx Independent Cinema Center. \u201cYou can\u2019t say it\u2019s Art House New York and not include the borough.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bronx Independent Cinema Center is a nonprofit working to bring a dedicated independent movie theater to the borough \u2014 something advocates say is long overdue.<\/p>\n
Currently, The Bronx only has two major chain theaters \u2014 the Regal Concourse and AMC Bay Plaza \u2014 which primarily show mainstream films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s first-ever \u201cArt House Cinema Week\u201d is underway but the Bronx is notably absent. The weeklong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[66138,128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-171375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-art-house-cinema-week","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}