New Paltz Cinemas
263 Main Street,
New Paltz,
NY
12561
263 Main Street,
New Paltz,
NY
12561
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Previously operated by: Cinecom
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: New Platz Cinema
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
845.255.0420
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Located in the New Platz Plaza Shopping Center. The New Platz Cinema was opened on August 20, 1969 with Richard Benjamin in “Goodbye Columbus”. It was first operated by Cinecom. It became a quad screen movie theatre in 1990. Later owned and operated by Independent Cinemas.
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Basic shopping center theater. Was visiting here over the summer and the projector broke down twice. Heard the locals say that this happens all of the time at this theater. I couldn’t recall ever having this happen to me let alone twice during the same movie. Overall an okay experience.
Yeah, it’s an oldie-chopped in half than chopped again- once part of a theater chain called “Cinecom” in the late sixties/early seventies. They also ran the Chester Quickway and the Squire in New Windsor. They used to show alot of foreign and independent films in the late seventies/early eighties-guess to attract the college crowd. Used to drive up from Middletown-they’d get alot of Woody Allen films and indies like “Smoke”, “Damage” and “Erotique” In the early eighties they played “Repo Man”, “Metropolis” and alot of other cool stuff.
I went to many movies I was in college at SUNY NEW PALTZ. IT was a twin for a year.Movies were watchable with decent size screens.
Then they had the bright idea to make it a QUAD!
Now it has to be ONE OF THE WORST MOVIE THEATRES! The front two theatres have only 5 rows of seats with THE SMALLEST SCREENS I HAVE EVER SEEN! The sound is also sub-par.
The back screens are a tad bigger but still much smaller then they used to be.
I do not see how they stay in business !
Do yourself a favor and travel down to Rosendale just 20 minutes from New Paltz and see a film in the Rosendale Theatre a TRUE GEM!
Theatre website is http://www.greatmovieslowerprices.com/new-paltz-cinemas.html
Please update, 347 seats (all screens has selected rows with recliners for an extra fee)
Seating Cpacity:
Theatre 1 and 3 94 seats
Theatre 2 89 seats
Theatre 4 70 seats
The New Paltz Cinema first opened as a single-screener on August 20, 1969 with “Goodbye Columbus”, and was first operated by Cinecom.
On June 14, 1990, the New Paltz Cinema became the first ever movie theater in the northeast to screen Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy” on the same day as its production premiere at Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The film already had a benefit presentation at the Woodstock Theatre in Woodstock, Illinois, one day beforehand.
Later in 1990, four more screens were added.