Friday, October 30, 2026 · No. 74
Good morning. Cinema 123, the Third Avenue movie house East Side Feed says opened in 1962, was set to screen its final show last night. Also today: an 1899 townhouse on East 87th Street is listed at $5.3 million, the weekend in one line, and the Fifth Avenue mansion that nearly became an apartment house.
Nearby on the East Side
Cinema 123 on Third Avenue was set to screen its final show Thursday night
Cinema 123, the movie theater at 1001 Third Avenue that East Side Feed says opened in 1962, was set to screen its final show Thursday night and close permanently, according to Upper East Site and East Side Feed. East Side Feed had earlier reported that the property was listed for sale. It sits well south of our patch. Via Upper East Site and East Side Feed.
via Upper East Site
Around the Neighborhood
Listing of note: an 1899 townhouse on East 87th Street, $5.3 million
512 East 87th Street, a four-story townhouse built in 1899 on the block between York and East End Avenues, is listed at $5,300,000. The listings describe five bedrooms in about 3,100 square feet, with a wood-burning fireplace and herringbone floors in the front living room. They disagree on whether the house is configured as one unit or two, so ask before you picture it as a single-family home. Via Leslie J. Garfield's listing.
via Leslie J. Garfield
This Week
The weekend in one line: Halloween, the Marathon, clocks back, Election Day
Halloween is Saturday. Sunday brings the Marathon up First Avenue, the end of early voting, and clocks falling back an hour. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, a remote day for public school students, with alternate side parking suspended. Details, the First Avenue no-parking notice and polling details are on our events page.
via The Yorkville Ledger
Yorkville, Remembered
The Warburg mansion on Fifth Avenue was nearly torn down for apartments
The French Gothic mansion at 1109 Fifth Avenue, at East 92nd Street, was built in 1907-08 for the banker Felix Warburg to designs by C.P.H. Gilbert. After Warburg died in 1937, his widow sold the house to a developer, who planned an apartment building on the site, but the plans were never carried out. In 1944 Frieda Warburg gave the house to the Jewish Theological Seminary, and it opened to the public as the Jewish Museum in 1947. The city designated it a landmark in 1981.
source: Wikipedia
If you're handing out candy tomorrow, buy one more bag than you think you need. Have a good weekend, and enjoy your Friday.