Regal Battery Park Stadium 11

102 N. End Avenue,
New York, NY 10282

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ridethectrain
ridethectrain on September 11, 2021 at 10:30 pm

It’s Regal after they install the recliners

Mikeoaklandpark
Mikeoaklandpark on September 11, 2021 at 12:30 pm

So does it operate as UA or Regal ? I Know they are both Regal entertainment

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on September 11, 2021 at 10:19 am

20 years ago today this cinema was badly damaged during the 9/11 attacks. It took time for the cinema to reopen and soon became the most famous 9/11 cinema ever.

ridethectrain
ridethectrain on June 13, 2021 at 10:31 pm

Please update, on August 8, 2003 UA gave back Level 1 (Screens 1-5) back to the landlord, bringing the screen count down to 11

ridethectrain
ridethectrain on August 11, 2019 at 5:10 pm

Please update the description, it open as Regal Cinemas in 2000. It was the 3rd theatre to enter the New York Market. A couple a years later, prior to them merging with UA, UA took control sometime in 2001.

ridethectrain
ridethectrain on April 15, 2019 at 8:24 pm

The theatre box office was relocated to level 1 of the movie theatre. The original marquee is no longer their and the orignal box office was sold to the Hotel Conrad. I posted photos of the theatre taken in 2003 and the present. The theatre now has recliners and the business is up on the weekend now.

The theatre capacity based on fandango.com (not including wheelchair spots) Level 1 (at one time Level 2 6-10) 1. 74 2. 60 3. 75 4. 123 5. 215

Level 2 (at one time Level 3 11-16) 6. 70 7. 57 8. 64 9. 73 10. 124 11. 220

Regal doses not offer RPX at this location. They probadly didn’t install it due to low attendance. Regal does not offer expanded concessions at this site.

mhvbear
mhvbear on September 15, 2016 at 2:15 pm

The installation of recliners is posted on the Regal wed site. I posted this the other day but it seems to have disappeared. But we still have postings from hdtv267.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on September 11, 2016 at 12:44 pm

This theater now has reserved seating and will soon get king sized recliners in every screen.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on April 1, 2014 at 3:00 pm

Does anyone know of a theater operating in this neighborhood before the construction of the World Trade Center? The theater would have opened in 1927 at the southwest corner of Cortlandt and West Streets. The project was mentioned in the July 13, 1927, issue of The Film Daily. If it did get built it might not have operated for very long.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on September 11, 2011 at 8:18 am

On this day 10 years ago, this theater was severely damaged. It would take several months before the theater reopened.

Kris
Kris on June 9, 2011 at 2:02 am

They’re currently doing some sort of construction there: the bottom floors are closed and customers have to take a series of escalators to the third (or was it fourth?) floor to even reach a box office. The rest of the theater is blocked off with partitions. The entrance to the building itself is a bit hard to find; the outside is blocked off with Regal-marked wooden partitions that point in the general direction of the entrance but it’s easy to miss.

We went there on a Thursday evening and the place was dead; the staff didn’t even bother taking our tickets.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on September 11, 2010 at 12:02 pm

This theatre opened in July 2000, so the tenth anniversary was two months ago.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on September 11, 2010 at 11:20 am

next year marks 10 years since this theater opened, and became the 9/11 theater due to its close proximity to the twin towers. In 2012 the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca film Festival will take place.

Nunzienick
Nunzienick on March 18, 2010 at 12:12 am

That’s exactly why I very seldom go anymore. As much as I love movies I just can’t tolerate the constant chatting…talking on cell phones…the incessant rustling of candy wrappers…and not to mention feet up on the seat right beside your head. And this rude behavior is not always limited to teens and young people either. Older people who should be familiar with theatre etiquette are sometimes just as rude.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on March 17, 2010 at 10:47 pm

GaryC. you got jerks in smaller cities too,one reason i never go to a film unless its 007 or Clint Eastwood and Uncle Clint is slowing down.

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on March 17, 2010 at 8:04 pm

Very true Gary C.The theatres canot screen everyone who comes in their doors.

GaryCohen
GaryCohen on March 17, 2010 at 7:45 pm

For years those of us who work in lower Manhattan had hoped for a movie theater to be built in this area. And this one filled the bill. I sometimes go there after work or take off a few hours early if there is something I really want to see. The first film I remember seeing there was Schwarzennegger in “The Sixth Day.” I have seen several films on their first day at this theater: last summer’s Star Trek, the last 3 Bond films, Superman Returns, etc. It is actually fairly impressive. After you buy your ticket, you take an escalator to the first floor. There are no theaters there, only an enormous shoe outlet. You then take an enormously long second escalator to the second level where half the theaters are. If you are unlucky, you have to take another long escalator to the rest of the theaters on the third level. This theater is so high up that the lobby and concessions stand area offers an impressive view of the West Side Highway.
As previously stated, when I go in the afternoon it is never super-crowded. I only had one bad experience there when some lowlives found their way to the theater I was in showing “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.” They had obviously came out of another theater and decided to make our lives miserable by talking and making noise at the top of their lungs. Fortunately these fools got bored and left after about ten minutes. I don’t blame this incident on the theater though. It could’ve happened in any theater in any large city in America.

DylanAsh
DylanAsh on January 26, 2009 at 8:37 pm

I want to like this theater, but I just can’t. It’s too far.

Garth
Garth on September 30, 2008 at 5:03 pm

Was there today to see the Woody Allen film ,rode up 3 flights on escalator to find it was 85 degrees and very humid in that particular theatre. Was informed A/C wasn’t working. Got a refund and will not be returning anytime soon. I have already called Regal and await a response.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on May 14, 2008 at 8:35 pm

This from the New York Times July 12, 1927:

…The Cortlandt and West Street corporation in conjuction with Solomon & Khan, builders, have altered their plans, drawn by Gronenburg & Leuchtag, architects, and are now erecting on their plot at the southeast corner of Cortlandt and West Street a moving picture theatre of approximately 5,000 square feet with exits on West and Washington Street…

Does anyone have any idea what theatre this may have eventually been?

Rickyrab
Rickyrab on October 20, 2006 at 10:49 am

the food concession there is mediocre, but the theater has spectacular views of Ground Zero from its escalator areas.

Rickyrab
Rickyrab on October 20, 2006 at 10:47 am

I’m surprised that people have a hard time finding this theater. It’s the Ground Zero movie theater, after all, and can be found easily by looking across West Street from the northwest corner of the WTC site. Getting there should be easy, too: make a left from the WTC PATH station’s entrance, make another left, walk across the northern edge of ground zero, and cross West St. (aka the West Side Highway, although it’s now more of a boulevard than a highway). Theater is within a hotel building and is on your right.

hardbop
hardbop on April 26, 2006 at 11:24 am

Over on the Tribeca Screening Room there is a mention that there was some friction between the Regal BPC folks and the Tribeca FF and that is why the Tribeca FF festival is, as far as I can tell, only using two screens this year. Anyone know the story.

I find it odd that a fest who raison d'etre, or one of its raison d'etres, is to get people downtown post 9-11. The “Tribeca Fest” is now moved out of Tribeca and is screening films in the Tribeca FF in the East Village (Loew’s/AMC’s E. Village ‘plex), midtown (Loew’s/AMC’s W. 34th St. 'plex) and the Westside (Loew’s Lincoln Square 'plex).

And I just read on the Ziegfeld listing that the opening film at the fest — FLIGHT 99 — premiered at the Ziegfeld, in midtown no where near Tribeca.

It kind of defeats the purpose of the fest to expand above Canal Street. It seems the original purpose of the fest has gone by the boards and the fest organizers are playing lip service to the downtown community.

The only time I go downtown — below Canal — is for this fest. This year my visits will be much fewer and far between because I have screenings in the three Loew’s/AMC ‘plex.

PerkyNan
PerkyNan on February 23, 2006 at 8:47 am

Perky Nan sez………Location is terrific, for those of us who own cars. One of only spots in Manhattan that isn’t suffocated with gridlock at night. Also, convienent to Holland, and Brooklyn Battery tunnes. Problem is NO PARKING when you get there. With all that vacant land in front of the place, this shouldn’t be a problem. Also, consession stand should carry Red Velvet cake, and consessionaires should realize that few moviegoers can swallow three liters of Coke in an hour; mightwant to scale back the cup sizes, fellas…………Perky Nan