Commack Multiplex Cinemas

100 Long Island Expressway,
Commack, NY 11725

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Bway
Bway on October 4, 2004 at 12:45 pm

Here’s a photo of the Commack Cinemas' sister theater, the Brookhaven Multiplex, which now sits abandoned because NA replaced it with the Island 16 Cinema de Lux in Holtsville nearby.

Click on my October 4th Message in the Brookhaven’s section linked below for a photo of the Brookhaven. Commack’s building was almost identical, and had a similar history.

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RobertR
RobertR on October 4, 2004 at 11:53 am

Great web site, I remember the RKO twin buit not the Mayfair.

RonMotta
RonMotta on October 4, 2004 at 11:37 am

It was actually both, lostmemory. You’re thinking of the Commack RKO Twin and Drive-In Theater (right next to it). In fact, that was where my father took me to see “Star Wars” for the first time on a rainy Saturday afternoon. To say it blew my little six-year-old mind is an understatement. The funny thing was, I didn’t want to see it because I thought it was a war movie— with soldiers and tanks and stuff like that. I still remember every detail about that day. I was watching “Super Friends” and after the movie, my Dad lost his keys at King Kullen.

Both the RKO Twin and the Drive-In shut down sometime in the mid-80’s, a few years after the Commack Multiplex ran them out of business (and now THAT is rumored to be coming down as well). The buildings (and that of the Long Island Arena) stood vacant for well over a decade, until they were demolished and turned into a shopping center anchored by Target.

For pictures of the RKO Twin and Drive-In, check these out:

http://www.commackarena.com/gallery_movies.shtml

Orlando
Orlando on October 1, 2004 at 1:45 pm

I opened this theatre as the first managing director. It opened in November of 1983. I left in 1985 and at the time this was the second largest grossing theatre in the country behind the Sunrise Multiplex Cinemas in Valley Stream.

Nyce475
Nyce475 on October 1, 2004 at 1:25 pm

There is rumors that this theatre is going to be closed and demolished in the next 6 months to make way for the new Cinema de Lux that National Amusements plans to build in it’s parking lot