By Noelle de Leeuw

The Metro Theater name is no more. The nonprofit that will run the renewed art deco movie house on Broadway, between West 99th and 100th streets, revealed its new name at a Monday night event: the Uptown Film Center. It marks the beginning of a new chapter for the theater, formerly known as the Metro, the Midtown, and a handful of other names over the years.

“You never know how something’s going to go over,” said Ira Deutchman, president of the Uper West Side Cinema Center, the nonprofit that bought the building earlier this year, in a Zoom interview with West Side Rag. “Especially, given the fact that people in the neighborhood were so nostalgic about calling it the Metro all of the time.”

The new Uptown Film Center will have five movie screens, an educational center

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