Cinema 1, 2 & 3 by Angelika
1001 3rd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
1001 3rd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
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Fifty years ago today THE EXORCIST opened here. Cinema 1 was among only two-dozen cinemas in twenty-one North American markets to play the film at release launch.
Kanopy.com has added Searching For Mr Rugoff to it’s film base. If you have a public library/university card that is connected to Kanopy.com you can watch the film Here
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since you asked per se. everytime I went to the Cinema ½/3 I did in fact ask the highest up managerial staff member I could find about the escalator and no one was ever able to give me a straight answer.
actually it’s m00se1111 please and I’m disappointed how my resolution was twisted around so.
I didn’t condone the issue with the escalator.
I merely suggested that as a consumer, if I had an issue with a business - I’d go to that business and ask someone in charge what the problem was. Not come to some online forum and stew over something for what was it 4 ½ years if going back over the history of this page is any indication.
However if that’s how you’ve chosen to interpret my suggestion, then you go right ahead and have a lovely day.
Big Joe, you used to be so humble, it looks like you finally grew a pair…
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according to mOOse1111’s most recent post theaters should be allowed to have their escalators out of service for 4 ½ years. apparently that’s good customer relations.
If I can make an off the wall suggestion…
Go to the theatre and try to find out what the problem was?
Can’t be good for ones mental and physical health obsessing over something for 4 ½ years.
My guess is the cost to repair it is so high that they keep kicking the can down the road. If there is an alternate route that satisfies ADA requirements, it may be a long time unless the city leans on them.
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I would love to know why the escalator was out of service
for almost 4 ½ years??? what reason could the management
of this theater give that would be at all credible???
Not enough palms greased????
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if I am not mistaken the world’s most famous skyscraper the Empire State Building took precisely 19 months to be built. the escalator at this theater has been out of service since Oct. 2018. given the Empire State Building info what possible reason could the management of this theater give that would excuse the escalator being out of service for 4 ½ years???
The escalator to Cinema One was finally in use fkr 80 For Brady. It could have been running by the end of 2022 except that it took three or four months for the city to inspect after the actual work had been completed.
“Searching for Mr. Rugoff” had a few movie theater screen screenings, including NYC. Paying $5 to stream a movie in HD is not outrageous, in my opinion.
Amazon Prime Video charges subscribers an additional $3.99 to view the SD version, and $4.99 for the SD. Outrageous!
Regarding “Searching for Mr. Rugoff,” it played in theaters across the country in August/September of 2021.It’s now available on Amazon, Apple, Google, Vudu, Kino Now and on the Criterion Channel, along with a 20 film retrospective of Cinema 5 releases.
So much a part of my growing up on the UES I am guessing that the first picture I saw here was The Wrong Box in 1966…The strip from 55th St to 72nd St included the Eastside Cinema Sutton Trans-Lux East/Gotham PacificEast/Avco/59thSt 1&2/Manhattan 1&2/ Cine Malibu/D.W.Griffith / Baronet & Coronet / 68th St Playhouse / Loews Towe East - add in the Plaza & Fine Arts & Festival & Paris what choice we had in the 60’s and 70’s and even a good part of the 80s
Where is Searching for Mr. Rugoff streaming (ironic that a picture about a theatre operator should be reduced to streaming)?
Please don’t forget the poor neglected step-child Trans-Lux East aka Penthouse (Caligula!) and then the Gotham …
Do plus the 59th St East and the Manhattan Twin plus the 62nd and 3 Cineplex Oden theater
And I left out Loews Tower east
It really is telling and a shame,the upper east side which once boasted Sutton,Baronet/Coronet,Beekman and was a prime destination for cinephiles has only this location left and if it’s redeveloped will have 0 quality screens.
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to Al A.- I appreciate your diplomatically discreet replies to my post of 7/17. they confirm my suspicion that the parent company is consciously letting this theater once one of the premiere 1st run theaters in Manhattan fall apart so they can close it and sell the building.
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to Mike(saps)-the photo up top is Cinema 2 not the Cinema 1 which has a much larger screen.
The screen in the opening page photo seems so small, almost like a large screen TV; today that screen should be wall-to-wall.
By the way, bigjoe, the documentary “SEARCHING FOR MR. RUGOFF” is a ‘must-watch’ for Cinema Treasures fans.