A landmark goes overseas

New York's beloved movie shop Kim's Video will soon shut down its rental service on St. Marks Place and ship the store's 55,000-title film collection to a new far-flung home – in Italy.

One upside? A continuous film screening:

Kim went with a bid from Salemi Mayor Vittorio Sgarbi – a former TV talk show host described as "one of the oddest and most colorful figures in contemporary Italy,"by the British newspaper, The Independent – who's trying to revitalize his poverty-stricken town.

According to a message from Sgarbi posted at Kim's, the town will soon launch "the Neverending Festival, a non-stop public projection of Kim's Video collection."