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The New York Times reports how two uptown arts organizations will hopefully be finding a new home in an abandoned Harlem marketplace.  According to the Times, “Two nonprofit arts groups, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and ImageNation, which supports independent cinema and progressive music, were selected on Monday to be part of the proposed Mart 125 redevelopment project, which would transform a centrally located but currently abandoned eyesore on Harlem’s main commercial thoroughfare into a mixed-use space.”  The two organizations will split the space with the Jazz Museum taking up to 10,000 sq. feet and ImageNation using 2,000 sq feet for a cinema. The Founder of ImageNation, Moikgantsi Kgama, responded to the selection of his group: “This designation is an incredible boon to our campaign to open the ImageNation Soul Cinema, Harlem’s first and the nation’s only art-house movie theater dedicated to black and Latino films.”

The New York Times reports how two uptown arts organizations will hopefully be finding a new home in an abandoned Harlem marketplace.  According to the Times, “Two nonprofit arts groups, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and ImageNation, which supports independent cinema and progressive music, were selected on Monday to be part of the proposed Mart 125 redevelopment project, which would transform a centrally located but currently abandoned eyesore on Harlem’s main commercial thoroughfare into a mixed-use space.”  The two organizations will split the space with the Jazz Museum taking up to 10,000 sq. feet and ImageNation using 2,000 sq feet for a cinema. The Founder of ImageNation, Moikgantsi Kgama, responded to the selection of his group: “This designation is an incredible boon to our campaign to open the ImageNation Soul Cinema, Harlem’s first and the nation’s only art-house movie theater dedicated to black and Latino films.”