New Plaza Cinema
New Plaza Cinema is a trusted community of film lovers providing thought provoking entertainment, education and conversation through curated cultural film experiences.
Our focus is to keep Art Cinema Culture alive in Upper Manhattan and wherever we reach our patrons.
New Plaza Cinema was created in 2018 at the closure of the beloved Lincoln Plaza Cinema as a non profit to continue the legacy of showing foreign and independents films on the Upper West Side. Since the start of the pandemic New Plaza Cinema has developed a cycle of free Classic Film Talk Backs, and lectures, and a virtual cinema offering carefully selected by Gary Palmucci, the curator of New Plaza Cinema.
New Plaza is working to keep first-rate independent and foreign cinema in New York City’s Upper Manhattan. Due to rapid changes in neighborhood configurations, quality film venues and other cultural institutions have been rapidly eroding. As a result, the historic tradition of community and quality cinema in Upper Manhattan has largely vanished or become difficult or prohibitively inaccessible for the hundreds of thousands of people there. This loss has reduced access to cultural opportunities and served to impair community spirit. Our goal is to keep this film culture alive in Upper Manhattan.
New Plaza Cinema is a 501(c)3 organization that focuses on delivering quality independent, documentary and art films.