Cinema 1, 2 & 3 by Angelika
1001 3rd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
1001 3rd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
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I think they are not investing in a property they plan to re-purpose as soon as it becomes feasible. Although a theatre incorporated into the new project may be possible, it is also not likely.
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to Al A.-as always thanks for your reply. now by posting the statement from the parent company’s website is that a discreet way of saying you agree with me that they’re letting the place fall apart so they can close the theater and sell the building?
Bigjoe, I found this on the internet from Reading International;
We own, through our 75% managing member interest, the fee interest in our Cinemas 1,2,3 property in Manhattan. While we are evaluating the potential to redevelop this property as a mixed-use property, these endeavors have been deferred as we deal with the challenges posed by the COVID 19 pandemic. However, located on 3rd avenue, across from Bloomingdales on Manhattan’s Upper Eastside, this property is a prime long-term hold-for-development asset of our Company.
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I went here yesterday to see Where the Crawdads Sing which I enjoyed but the theater was in rather uneven shape. the escalator is still broken after almost 4 years. there is no reason on God’s green earth the management could possibly come up with that would justify thee escalator being out of service for almost 4 yes 4 years. also the water connection was out so patrons couldn’t use the restrooms and the air conditioning in Cinema 3 wasn’t working properly. I am convinced the Angelika Film Center is consciously not maintaining the theater so they can just shut it down at some point and sell the building.
Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE opened here fifty years ago today
same company Reading Entertainment just rebranded the name
Did Angelika take over all City Cinema theaters?
Just uploaded a bunch of photos of Cinema 1, 2 and 3 with recliners and prior to the installation of the recliners in the photos section. I thought I did them a few years ago, but didn’t realize it wasn’t uploaded.
Trailer for the new 94-minute documentary on the life and times of Donald S. Rugoff can be viewed here
Please Update previous operators as Cinema 5, Cineplex Odeon and City Cinemas
please update name, it now Cinema 123 by Angelika. The City Cinema name is being rebranded by Angelika
Grand opening ad: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60630123/cinema-i-cinema-ii-opening/
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hdtv267 will probably post a witty sarcastic reply to this post but was the escalator fixed before the movie theater shutdown on Mon. March 16th.? its a simple question.
The theatre hasn’t reopened since March, what see when the time comes.
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since I believe in free speech I have to accept your slightly curt replies to it seems all of my posts.
to which since having a working escalator is part of good theater management it would be a critique on the uneven degree of proper management at this theater if by the theater shutdown on Mon. March 16th the escalator which had been out of order since Oct. 2018 still hadn’t been mixed.
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I hate to sound like a broken record but was the escalator
fixed before the NYC movie theater lockdown on March 16th?
as I have stated before it had been out of service since
Oct. of 2018.
Please update, 332 seats (This theatre had recliner seats installed in 2016)
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as I asked a while back before the movie theater lockdown
on March 16th was the escalator in this ever fixed. it had
been out of service since Oct. 2018.
also I’m not surprised about the Landmark 57 St. closing. the two times I went there were way more staff then patrons.
Online including City Cinemas website would indicate this theater is not permanently closed. The article likely meant 86th St.
The article about the Landmark 57 closing mentioned that City Cinemas had closed their East side theaters; did they mean these screens?
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before the mandated movie theater shutdown on Mon. March 16th
was the escalator ever fixed? it had been out of order since
Oct. 2018.
Please, update it was added Cinema 3rd Avenue on December 21, 1988. The third screen to up the first six rows of Cinema 1. After Cinema 3 closed, they renamed the theatre Cinema 1-2-3 The theatre was renovated in the fall of 2014 with new recliners with the capacity of Cinema 1 187, Cinema 2 97 and Cinema 3 48 seats. Cinema 1 shows 70MM.
When the theatre open in 1962, it was Cinema 1 and Cinema 2, separate box office and entrances, it was design you couldn’t switch screens. A New lobby was redone in the fall of 1988.
70mm usually refers to the actual film stock width shown by the theatre. A film shot in 35mm could be blown up for 70mm projection. The soundtrack strip on the 70mm film was also superior in quality. The Fresh Meadows multiplex, for example, has fairly small screens but the quality of a 70mm projection in the same complex was visibly superior in sight and sound to the 35mm screen, although not so different in size.
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while I am an avid moviegoer there is something I’m still confused by- what 70MM means. is it the aspect ratio of the film stock to shoot the film or the size of screen showing it? for instance how can the Cinema 1 show a film in the same way the Ziegfeld could?
“The Joker” is not an art movie like the opening attraction, but all movies were not art movies. The most popular movies from the start were movies like Dracula and Frankenstein. That said, this site isn’t for reviews of individual movies, and not at all for TV or general culture. We can be happy that this movie theater is not only still open, but will showcase The Joker in 70mm.