Office for Metropolitan History

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the Texas-based movie theater chain famed for its no-tolerance policy on cell phone use — and for making a viral hit out of the irate rant of a customer who got booted for violating it — is coming to New York.

Its five-screen home will be the Metro Theater at Broadway and 99th Street, an Art Deco landmark that opened as the Midtown Theater in 1933, saw latter-day use as an art-house theater and and a pornographic movie house before closing in 2005. The Metro has spent the last seven years in commercial and legal limbo, including failed attempts to turn the space into an Urban Outfitters, and a home for an arts-education nonprofit group.

The Alamo Drafthouse at the Metro, as the theater will be called, is slated to open in 2013, Alamo announced on Thursday. “The Alamo Drafthouse at the Metro will provide food and drink service to your seat and will uphold its famously strict no-talking policy,” the company said in a news release.