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A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in New York City & Vicinity
Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay
70mm Equipped Theatres In NY
The
list below includes the names of the commercial motion picture theatres
equipped for 70-millimeter film presentation in the New York
tri-state/metropolitan area (New York City, plus Nassau, Suffolk,
Westchester and Rockland counties, as well as southwestern Connecticut and
northern New Jersey).
Note that the list of theatres is not a listing of venues currently in
operation that have 70mm presentation capability. Instead, this is a
historical list which documents those theatres known or believed to have
been 70mm-equipped at one time or another between 1955 (the introduction of
Todd-AO) and the present. (The list accounts for 5-perf 70mm; 8- and
15-perf special venue theatres have not been included.)
Many of the theatres listed are closed or have been demolished. Some,
however, are currently in operation and may still have 70mm projection
capability. The theatres have been identified sans owner/chain/circuit and
years of operation, and are arranged alphabetically based on city, community
or recognized place. To find out which companies operated the theatres or
which films were exhibited in them, please see our year-by-year engagement
lists.
NEW YORK
BRONX (BRONX COUNTY)
Bay Plaza 10
Whitestone Multiplex
BROOKLYN (KINGS COUNTY)
Albee
Fortway Fiveplex
Kingsway Triplex / Kingsway Quad / RKO Kingsway Fiveplex
Movies at Sheepshead Bay
MANHATTAN (NEW YORK COUNTY)
19th Street East Sixplex / 19th Street / 19th Street East VI / 19th Street
East 6
23rd Street / 23rd Street West Triplex
34th Street Showplace / 34th Street Showcase
50th Street
57th Street Lincoln Art
57th Street Playhouse
83rd Street Quad
84th Street Six / 84th Street VI
86th Street East
Angelika 57
Astor
Astor Plaza
Baronet
Beekman
Capitol / Cinerama
Central Park (special event)
Chelsea
Cinema I / Cinema 1 / Cinema 2 / Cinema 3
Coronet
Criterion / Criterion Center
DeMille / The DeMille / Embassy I / Embassy 1
East 85th Street
Embasy 2 & 3
Fine Arts / The Fine Arts / Paris Fine Arts / Paris
First & 62nd
Gemini / Gemini 1 & 2 / Gemini Twin / 64th & 2nd
Gotham
Gramercy
Juliet 2
Kips Bay / Bay
Lincoln Square
Movieland
Murray Hill
National / National Twin
New York Twin / New York 2
Olympia I & II
Orpheum / Orpheum I / Orpheum Twin / Orpheum VII
Palace
Paramount / Columbus Circle
Park & 86th
Plaza
Radio City Music Hall
Regency
Rialto / Warner
Rivoli / Rivoli 1 & 2 / United Artists Twin
Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1 (Museum of Modern Art)
State /State 1 & 2 / State Twin
Strand
Sutton / Sutton 2
Tower East
Village VII
Village East
Walter Reade at Lincoln Center
Warner / Warner Cinerama / Cinerama / Penthouse / Cinerama 2 / RKO Cinerama
/ RKO Cinerama Twin / RKO Warner Twin
Worldwide
Ziegfeld / The Ziegfeld
QUEENS (QUEENS COUNTY)
ASTORIA
American Museum of the Moving Image
ELMHURST / REGO PARK
Lefrak City
FOREST HILLS
Continental / Continental Triplex / Continental 3
FRESH MEADOWS
Fresh Meadows
STATEN ISLAND (RICHMOND COUNTY)
NEW DORP
Fox Plaza
TRAVIS
Movies at Staten Island
LONG ISLAND (NASSAU COUNTY)
EAST MEADOW
Meadowbrook Quad
GARDEN CITY
Roosevelt Field Twin / Roosevelt Field Triplex / RKO Roosevelt Field Quad /
Roosevelt Field Eightplex
LAWRENCE
Lawrence / Twin
LEVITTOWN
Nassau Quad / Nassau Six
LYNBROOK
Lynbrook
HEMPSTEAD
Franklin
HICKSVILLE
Mid Plaza Cinema 6
Plainview
Twin North
Twin South / Twin South Cinerama / RKO Hicksville Twin South
MASSAPEQUA
Pequa
OYSTER BAY
Pine Hollow
PORT WASHINGTON
Sands Pt.
ROCKVILLE CENTRE
Fantasy
SYOSSET
Syosset / Syosset Triplex / The Syosset
SYOSSET / WOODBURY
Cinema 150 / The Syosset
VALLEY STREAM
Green Acres / RKO Green Acres
Sunrise Sixplex / Sunrise Multiplex / Sunrise Eightplex
LONG ISLAND (SUFFOLK COUNTY)
BAY SHORE
Bay Shore / Cinema
COMMACK
Commack Multiplex
CORAM
The Movies at Coram
EAST SETAUKET
Fox
HUNTINGTON
Shore
ISLIP
Islip
MEDFORD
Brookhaven Multiplex
PATCHOGUE
The Movies at Patchogue
ROCKLAND COUNTY
NANUET
Nanuet
Route 59
NEW CITY
Cinema
SPRING VALLEY
Movies at Spring Valley
WESTCHESTER COUNTY
BRONXVILLE
Bronxville
HAWTHORNE
All Westchester Sawmill Multiplex
NEW ROCHELLE
Mall
PEEKSKILL
Beach
Paramount Center for the Arts
WHITE PLAINS
Cinema
Galleria Twin
YONKERS
Central Plaza / Central Plaza Twin / Central Plaza 4
NEW JERSEY
BERGEN COUNTY
CLOSTER
Closter
PARAMUS
Paramus / Route 17 Twin / Stanley-Warner Triplex / RKO Route 17 Twin / RKO
Route 17 Triplex
Stanley-Warner Route 4 / Triplex Paramus / Paramus / Paramus Quad /
Stanley-Warner / RKO Paramus / RKO Paramus Sevenplex / RKO Route 4 Sevenplex
/ RKO Route 4 Tenplex
RIDGEFIELD PARK
Ridgefield Park 10 / Ridgefield Park Tenplex
ESSEX COUNTY
CEDAR GROVE
Cinema 23
MONTCLAIR
Clairidge Cinerama / Clairidge
Wellmont
NEWARK
Adams
UPPER MONTCLAIR
Bellevue / Bellevue Triplex
WEST ORANGE
Essex Green
HUDSON COUNTY
SECAUCUS
Meadow Sixplex / Meadow Six / Meadow Plaza Eightplex / Meadow Plaza 8
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
EDISON
Menlo Park / Menlo Park Twin
MIDDLETOWN
Movies at Middletown Sevenplex
NEW BRUNSWICK
International 70
SAYREVILLE
Amboy Multiplex / Amboy Sixplex
WOODBRIDGE
Fox
Woodbridge / The Woodbridge
MONMOUTH COUNTY
ASBURY PARK
Lyric
Mayfair
Paramount
St. James
BELMAR
Man Ray
OCEAN
Circle
MORRIS COUNTY
MORRISTOWN
Community
Headquarters 10
PASAIC COUNTY
PATERSON
Fabian
TOTOWA
Cinema 46 / Cinema 46 Triplex
WAYNE
RKO Twin
Wayne / Wayne Six / Wayne Eight
Willowbrook
SOMERSET COUNTY
BRIDGEWATER
Bridgewater Commons 7
UNION COUNTY
UNION
Union
WESTFIELD
Rialto
CONNECTICUT
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
GREENWICH
Plaza
STAMFORD
Avon
Majestic
Ridgeway
TRUMBULL
Cinema
Trumbull
NEW HAVEN COUNTY
HAMDEN
Cinemart
ORANGE
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