Demolition crews will tear down New York City's prestigious Beekman Theatre, immortalized in the movie "Annie Hall," for a cancer-treatment center.

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"Our landlord has exercised a lease option to take back the property and, as a result, Clearview Cinemas will cease operations at the Beekman at the end of June 2005," the movie chain said in a statement.

The 52-year-old landmark theater and adjacent buildings have been owned since 1989 by SKI Realty, a unit of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Post said Wednesday.

"We are planning to construct an outpatient cancer-treatment facility including breast and other cancers," said hospital spokesman Christine Hickey.