The Cinemart Movieplex in Forest Hills, NY, benefits from being next to a legendary “sweet shop” with homemade ice cream and an old soda fountain on one side and a cafe that is popular with outdoor dinners on the other.
This kind of “context” enables downtown movie theaters to survive. It makes going to the movies a special event, quite different from watching a flick at home. There is a brief slide show below that shows the movie house, Eddie’s Sweet Shop and the Theater Cafe. Eddie’s and the Cinemart have been around for 50+ years.
