Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers
2548 Central Park Avenue,
Yonkers,
NY
10710
2548 Central Park Avenue,
Yonkers,
NY
10710
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Please update, total seats 546. All screens are now recliner seating.
Actually Westchester also has a nice Regal multiplex and we just got a new LOOK Dine-In Cinema (the site of the Ipic)
It’s probably the nicest theater in all of Westchester.
Please update, BS Moss added two additional screen to the curent six in early June 13, 1986
Two of the screen were considerably reduced in size to accommodate the kitchen
The theatre open in 1977 as 4 screens, BS Moss (aka Bow Tie) added two screens in June 1986. Please look at the display ads in the photos. Alamo kept the 6 screens when they took over in 2013.
ridethectrain. There are six screens now. The area where the other screens were are now the kitchen and food prep areas
Grand opening ad posted
Response to BearMount Not sure what you’re talking about. Have you ever been there before? The front of the theatre is all glass, I assume it was covered up for safety reasons. There is zero graffiti. The outside is not forlorn, it just seems that way because…the theatre is temporarily closed. All theatres look this way right now! It is not a depressed area. The restaurants and other stores are all open. I am quite certain that my Drafthouse will reopen as soon as it’s possible.
as of august 2020 this theater is boarded up and closed. it shut down in march 2020 due to covid. its future is uncertain. its outside is forelawn with portions covered with graffiti. its located in a somewhat depressed area behind a strip mall.
Please update theatre open under Alamo on 8/3/13
If this was the old Movieland I saw Going in Style here in 1979…Perfect serviceable multiplex but loved the Movieland brand
Please update, the theatre open around December 16, 1977 with Close Encounters. The theatre had 4 screens, expanded to six screens in the 1980s or 90s. If I can find something thru looking at old newspapers. There was NO GRAND OPENING AD in the New York Daily News or The Journal News. Guess BS MOSS didn’t advertize.
Time to change the old “Movieland” photo on homepage. I downloaded a new picture and more to come. I live this place
Bow Tie unfortunately departed from Central Plaza so Alamo can pretty much show whatever they want now. I had originally thought Alamo would be the place for genre kinds of films, while Central Plaza might get more family friendly stuff – even though Alamo does play both (in fact I spoke with families when I was the director a tech camp two summers ago in Austin and many families make the Alamo a theater of choice for a day out).
I had visited Yonkers opening night and had a good experience even if it wasn’t perfect (it was opening night – and they took 75% off our bill so I’m not complaining). They have pictures up on Facebook – and while they didn’t install Stadium Seating they made extensive lobby changes while keeping some of the vintage charm of this one painting the brick walls red and installing a theme (this one is Dr. Strangelove). Over all, like the locations I visited in Austin, this is first class operation.
Still I regret not getting to Central Plaza before they closed – I’ve been told much of the GCC charm is in tact :(
I think optimist008 is jumping the gun. Alamo is not playing a few of the same films. It’s only one “2 Guns” and I personally think this is an anomaly. When it was the Movieland 6 there were enough films for both theatres and with the Alamo’s policy of also playing art films this shouldn’t happen again
Chill. Alamo is about upscale food & drinking so the same movies might play at both cinemas.
CORRECTION TO THE ABOVE:
Google: Beech Cinema vs. Twentieth Century Fox Film
Question: Noticed that this theater is running a few of the same films also palying up the block at Bow Tie Central Plaza. Does this mean as the newest theater here, Bow Tie now loses the distribution tracks of several major studios??? This is how it happened in the 1960’s with the advent of shopping center theaters , the downtown theater became second fiddle to the film distributors. Are the studios bound to the exhbitors with exclusive licensing agreements?? If you Google “Beech Cinemas vs. General Cinema,” you will see a past lawsuit against 20th Century Fox involving alleged collusion between exhibitors and studios here in Westchester County, NY. John J. Fink and Scott Neff, please chime in on this!!!
Would like to see some additional pictures of the theaters themselves. Got a count on the seating looking at the reservation pages. Theater 1: 172 seats Theater 2: 64 seats Theater 3: 68 seats Theater 4: 191 seats Theater 5: 68 seats Theater 6: 26 seats
Alamo now open
Its good to have a new company in the NYC area. I’m sick and tired of AMC and Regal popping out new theaters. It nice that there’s no more territories.
Good news. Alamo is having a pre-opening weekend Aug. 2, 3 and 4. It’s a run-thru for the staff. “Singin' in the Rain” @ $2 and all food is half price! I already have my tickets. Grand opening is the following week.
Stang119: Here is a listing for the Alamo drafthouse in yonkers ,including a artist rendering of the theater. http://drafthouse.com/nyc_area/yonkers
Fred…I don’t know if you’re in that area but I’m so looking forward to this, especially after seeing their PSAs. As of now, the only theatres showing ‘specialty fare’ is the Bronxville Triplex (where there is zero parking) and the god-awful Cinema 100 Greenburgh. I just hope their pricing policy is more in line with Westchester County than Manhattan ($14 and up)