What’s this magnificent building, you ask? Surely it’s a museum or a bank or some equally important building. Sorry, but no. Originally the Ridgewood National Bank, then the Hanover National Bank, the Beaux-Arts structure on Myrtle was taken over by Rite Aid.

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It looks like the only movie theater left in Bushwick and Ridgewood has finally bit the dust. Forget fresh produce — the movie theater “shelf,” so to speak, in 1970s Moscow was probably better stocked than in New York today. The closing leaves all of North Brooklyn — Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick — with no local options for watching first-run movies in a theater. Not to mention large swathes of Queens.

The theater opened in 1916, and for generations served Bushwick and Ridgewood. “It is believed to be one of the oldest continuously operated theaters in the country, having never closed for renovations during its 89-year run.”

Sadly, the only thing I can imagine leasing 17,000 sqft is another chain drug store. Hopefully, whatever happens, the facade remains intact.

BushwickLou of South Bushwick via East New York has been recommending Dora’s Creperie on Myrtle in Ridgewood for a few weeks and the Miami crew got a chance to go this afternoon. The owners/staff seem to be Polish, but that doesn’t stop them from cranking out good French chow. Check out the full review at CafeHop.com.