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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 & Photo Gallery

 

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).  We've also attempted, when available, to supply pictures and original newspaper advertisements of certain theatres.  Click a theatre name link to access the gallery. 

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)
Fortway Fiveplex
Kingsway Triplex / Kingsway Quad / 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
/ Angelika 57
57th Street Playhouse
83rd Street Quad
84th Street Six / 84th Street VI
86th Street East
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 / Embasy 2 & 3
East 85th Street

Embassy I
Fine Arts / Paris Fine Arts / Paris
First & 62nd
Gemini / Gemini 1 & 2 / Gemini Twin / 64th & 2nd
Gotham
Gramercy
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 / Cinerama Twin / Warner Twin
Worldwide
Ziegfeld


QUEENS (QUEENS COUNTY)
 

American Museum of the Moving Image
Continental / Continental Triplex / Continental 3

Fresh Meadows
Lefrak City

 

STATEN ISLAND (RICHMOND COUNTY)
 

Fox Plaza
Movies at Staten Island
Richmond


LONG ISLAND (NASSAU COUNTY)

EAST MEADOW
Meadowbrook/Meadowbrook Twin / Meadowbrook Quad

 

FRANKLIN SQUARE
Franklin

GARDEN CITY
Roosevelt Field Twin / Roosevelt Field Triplex / Roosevelt Field Quad / Roosevelt Field Eightplex

LAWRENCE
Lawrence / Twin / Twin Rockaway Blvd.

LEVITTOWN
Nassau Quad / Nassau Six

LYNBROOK
Lynbrook

HICKSVILLE
Twin North & South / Twin South Cinerama / Hicksville South / Mid-Plaza Cinema 6

MASSAPEQUA
Pequa

OYSTER BAY
Pine Hollow

 

PLAINVIEW

Plainview

PORT WASHINGTON
Sands Pt.

ROCKVILLE CENTRE
Fantasy

SYOSSET
Syosset / Syosset Triplex

VALLEY STREAM
Green Acres / Green Acres Triplex
Sunrise Multiplex / Sunrise Sixplex / Sunrise Eightplex
 

WESTBURY

Raceway

 

WOODBURY

Cinema 150 / The Syosset

 

WOODMERE

Five Towns



LONG ISLAND (SUFFOLK COUNTY)

BAY SHORE
Bay Shore

Cinema

COMMACK
Commack Multiplex

CORAM
Movies at Coram

EAST SETAUKET
Fox

HUNTINGTON
Shore

ISLIP
Islip

MEDFORD
Brookhaven Multiplex

PATCHOGUE
Movies at Patchogue


ROCKLAND COUNTY

NANUET
Nanuet
Route 59

NEW CITY
Cinema / United Artists

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 / United Artists
Galleria Twin

YONKERS
Central Plaza / Central Plaza Twin / Central Plaza 4


NEW JERSEY

BERGEN COUNTY

CLOSTER
Closter

 

FORT LEE

Lee

PARAMUS
Paramus / Route 17 Twin / Route 17 Triplex
Stanley-Warner Route 4 / Triplex Paramus / Paramus / Paramus Quad / Stanley-Warner / RKO Paramus / Paramus Sevenplex / Route 4 Sevenplex / Route 4 Tenplex

RIDGEFIELD PARK
Ridgefield Park 10 / Ridgefield Park Tenplex


ESSEX COUNTY

CEDAR GROVE
Cinema 23

MONTCLAIR
Clairidge Cinerama / Clairidge
Wellmont

UPPER MONTCLAIR
Bellevue / Bellevue Triplex

WEST ORANGE
Essex Green


HUDSON COUNTY

JERSEY CITY

Stanley

 

SECAUCUS
Meadow Plaza Eightplex

Meadow Sixplex


MIDDLESEX COUNTY

EDISON
Menlo Park / Menlo Park Twin

MIDDLETOWN
Movies at Middletown Sevenplex

NEW BRUNSWICK
International 70

SAYREVILLE
Amboy Sixplex / Amboy Multiplex

WOODBRIDGE
Fox
Woodbridge


MONMOUTH COUNTY

ASBURY PARK
St. James

BELMAR
Man Ray

 

HAZLET

Hazlet Multiplex


MORRIS COUNTY

MORRISTOWN
Community
Headquarters 10

 

PARSIPPANY

Troy Hills


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
Showcase

 


 

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