Union square has become LESS ATTRACTIVE since it’s remodel.
They no longer have masking of the screens to match the flat or scope ratios.
Also their screens have become SMALLER. Watching scope movies on most of their screens are now very unattractive. Especially in theaters 4, 5, and 12.
Also, after remodel, many of the EXIT signs are in very bad places. Some screens, like theater 2, have the EXIT sign see through behind the movie screen.
BenPaz The theater did indeed look like the drawing design in this article. It wasn’t until the theater had a makeover around June 7, 2002 that it changed. During that renovation, five more screens were added along with stadium seating in 12 of the now 14 auditoriums.
It looks like the new lobby has an area for a box office, but it’s not in use. There is a series of about eight kiosks in the lobby. People are told to go to concessions upstairs if paying by cash, etc..
Work is due to start soon on the theater upstairs. Rumors of a bar in the area of the old Coca Cola Freestyle to be made.
I was told yesterday that theater 12 will become the new auditorium for 4DX. And theater 2, which currently has 4DX, will become a ScreenX.
I just googled the address of the theater, 106 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, and typed real estate.
Looks like space at this address, 12 levels worth, which is what this theater has, is down as retail space available for lease.
So it sounds like the theaters days are numbered. When, is anybody’s guess, but it looks like it’s been available for 7 months now.
Who knows if the fate of the Barnes n Noble is numbered too. They are located next door in the same building.
As of Saturday January 15th 2021, theater is open and operating as normal. Posters inside we’re changed and feature NEW upcoming movies. Sunday has a very light schedule where most movies only have two early showtimes. Other new movies like Belle and Scream 5 have showings up till 8pm.
Update: Showtimes for Monday thru Thursday January 20th have been added and are active for purchase. But only Belle and Scream 5 have showtimes, and all the others from the weekend are not posted. Theaters upstairs 9, 10 and 11 have screenings.
It is possible that the theater will get a renovation and not close? No one at the theater is giving any good answers and seem “clueless” to any rumors. Unless they know something yet can’t say anything to the public.
Renovations begin to update E-Walk appearance to the new, updated Regal design (similar to Essex Crossing and the Union Square update). Work started on the entrance/box-office area first using the space previously used by Starbucks. The original entrance / box-office area closed around second week of December 2021. That space is supposedly going to a new Target coming next door.
Work stopped at top of lower escalators, with more changes to come.
Most auditoriums that are flat are NOT recommended
to view scope (widescreen) films. most notably theaters
4, 5, 9, and 12.
Before the renovations and unmasking of the screens. any
of the original 14 theaters would have been fine to view
either flat or scope movies. Now, do some research BEFORE
choosing to see a movie theater. Know if the film you want
to see is flat or scope, and which theater it is playing in.
Otherwise you will be seeing a movie that is not may be way
too small on their very small screens.
Aspect ratio of the new Dolby Cinema screen (Theater 8) is a extremely big scope screen!
Also, I have noticed that they removed the Loews Theaters plaques that were above the movie posters around the theater. And there are paper-made directions signs all around the theater emphasizing AMC, not AMC Loews.
The marquee outside still says Loews.
I would surmise that this theater is next to be converted to an official AMC soon. That would leave only the Orpheum and Lincoln Square as the last two New York City theaters with Loews design and name afterwards.
Conversion from AMC Loews to AMC is about complete now.
No longer an interior design of Loews. Now officially an AMC in all aspects. All six theaters were “gutted” and redone. Now with recliners. The recliners feature a heat button, that warms your back in the cold weather. Some of the auditoriums are now slightly stadium.
Masking is no longer featured here. All screens are scope, except for theater three, which is flat. Which means in theater three, scope movies are projected on the flat screen with visible black bars on top and bottom (looks like letterboxed). The other theaters show flat movies with visible bars on the sides. Why they decided to take away the masking during this renovation is another blunder of and idea when AMC renovates or makes new theaters.
Theater 7 is now equipped to screen 70mm features. So far 70mm films screened were first run DUNKIRK and PHANTOM THREAD. Repertory films screened were John Carpenter’s THE THING. Promised to be screened in 2018 is HOWARD THE DUCK.
The UA Sheepshead Bay’s ushers are not very courteous. Sheepshead Bay ushers don’t care if people are still watching the credits and usually downright refuse to shut off the lights to wait until the movie is over. They hustle in and turn on those damn bright lights to clean the theater. It should be a rule that if any customers are still in the theater watching the credits roll, the ushers must wait till it’s all over to clean the theater! No exceptions!
The ushers are better now than stated back in 2006. While they might turn on the house lights to clean during the credits, then won’t usually turn them on if people are still in the theater watching. Unlike the UA Sheepshead Bay’s ushers, Court Street’s ushers are very courteous. Sheepshead Bay doesn’t care if people are still watching the credits and usually downright refuse to shut off the lights to wait until the movie us over!
The Alpine Theatre in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, was originally a Loew’s theatre and first opened on June 6, 1921. Carlson & Wiseman were the architects.
At the time, the Alpine Theatre was the first Loew’s theatre anywhere with its entire seating capacity (2,200) on one floor, without a balcony or gallery.
The tapered auditorium was 100 feet at its widest, with the last of the 55 rows of seats about 76 feet from the screen. The stage had no fly gallery or grid-iron, but had an apron just large enough to accommodate a vocalist or musical instrumentalist between film showings.
Variety described the Alpine Theatre’s interior as “decorated in a tan and gold color scheme, the general atmosphere created being one of brightness. The side walls are paneled and painted in an imitation of tapestry. The floors are carpeted with red velvet. A good system of floor pitch gives a clear view of the screen from any part of the house.”
Alpine Cinemas eight theaters make current movies come alive as massive screens merge with Dolby Digital sound to keep each crowd of 200 or more immersed in the action.
The signature theater injects even more realism with roomy stadium seats and 3-D capabilities that add an extra dimension without having to bring a 20-foot friend to act out the movie.
Before shows, guests can stock up on refreshments at the snack bar equipped with savory popcorn and bubbly soda.
Auditoriums
Screen #1 Capacity: 235 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL Info: text
Screen #2 Capacity: 210 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #3 Capacity: 114 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #4 Capacity: 111 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #5 Capacity: 111 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #6 Capacity: 118 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #7 Capacity: 117 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #8 Capacity: 165 ( 5 HC ) seats (ALL NEW STADIUM SEATING) Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D : DIGITAL
Accessibility All screens are wheelchair accessible. Listening Devices Listening devices may be provided upon request
Built in 1963 in the shell of a turn of the century fire station, Cinema Village is the oldest continuously operated cinema in Greenwich Village and one of the oldest continuously operated art cinemas in the city.
Through most of it’s first three decades of life Cinema Village was one of Manhattan’s several repertory cinemas. Showcasing a canon of vintage classics, cult and contemporary critical favorites on double bills that would usually change three times a week, this once essential programming format has now largely died out in commercial cinemas in the city and around the country. Before the video revolution, short of a private film collection, going to a repertory cinema was virtually the only way to see many films after their initial theatrical run. Rep houses like Cinema Village, the recently re-opened Thalia and the now long closed Bleeker Street, Carnegie Hall, 8th Street Playhouse and Regency were the autodidacts' film school and favorite haunts of cineastes for decades.
Undermined by home video, buy outs by major circuits and real estate development, commercial repertory cinema virtually disappeared in the city by the late 1980’s. Cinema Village only escaped closing and survived with a switch to limited engagements of highly alternative first run programming.
This resulted in an eclectic mix of slip through-the-cracks American indie sleepers (Red Rock West), the occasional revival (In the Realm of the Senses, Two Lane Blacktop, The Leopard), documentaries (Theremin, Waco: Rules of Engagement, Kurt & Courtney), festivals, animation compilations, Japanese cult cinema (Tokyo Decadence, Angel Dust, Ghost in the Shell) and heavy doses of Hong Kong cinema.
In the early nineties before Jackie Chan, John Woo, Michele Yeoh and their stunt coordinators went Hollywood, Cinema Village became known, through its annual festivals and other bookings, as the place to see the amazing Hong Kong films of what would soon to acknowledged as a filmmaking golden age. For filmgoers who never ventured to Chinatown or had only seen blurry bootleg videos, these films were a revelation and they would soon have a profound influence on international filmmaking styles. During this period we also had the privilege of playing host to personal appearances by talents such as Michele Yeoh, Chow Yun Fat, Wong Kar Wai and Peter Chan.
In 2000 our patron’s support was rewarded with a long deferred renovation and expansion of screens. When we reopened, we had transformed ourselves into a thoroughly modern three screen facility with state of the presentation. Our additional screens allow an even more diverse programming mix and permit us to extend runs of special films to extraordinary lengths (Mulholland Drive: 18 weeks; Yi Yi: 21 weeks; The Piano Teacher: 28 weeks).
In 2001 we quietly introduced digital video projection capabilities to accommodate the increasing reliance on digital video by independent productions. This now gives us the potential to play deserving features without the burden to distributors or filmmakers of an expensive conversion to celluloid.
Nearing its fourth decade, Cinema Village is proud of its longevity and thankful to have survived the pitfalls that have taken down so many other independent cinemas. Notwithstanding our resourcefulness, our ability to survive is testimony entirely to the New York City audience. We could probably only exist where we are: in the midst of most diverse, cosmopolitan and cine-aware of cities.
Correcting John Fink’s post from January 10, 2017: It is Theater One that shows 35mm films such as Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday.
In my opinion, the 35mm prints they screen are pretty decent. Nothing too scratched or faded. Always as great time there, and projectiin is usually a top class affair.
I saw Valerian in 3D here today. Theater is getting run down. Beginning to feel like the Pavilion. Bathrooms needed cleaning, theater seven’s screen had black marks on it. Was surprised to discover a new theater eight located all the way in the back. It was a new stadium style theater. Not sure when exactly it was added. Information should be changed on this page to note Alpine now has eight screens!! There is a banner up in the lobby showing a “promised” upcoming remodeling of the theater.
Union square has become LESS ATTRACTIVE since it’s remodel. They no longer have masking of the screens to match the flat or scope ratios. Also their screens have become SMALLER. Watching scope movies on most of their screens are now very unattractive. Especially in theaters 4, 5, and 12. Also, after remodel, many of the EXIT signs are in very bad places. Some screens, like theater 2, have the EXIT sign see through behind the movie screen.
This would be the perfect spot for a new Landmark Theaters. Especially after the loss of the Sunshine Cinema.
BenPaz
The theater did indeed look like the drawing design in this article. It wasn’t until the theater had a makeover around June 7, 2002 that it changed. During that renovation, five more screens were added along with stadium seating in 12 of the now 14 auditoriums.
It looks like the new lobby has an area for a box office, but it’s not in use. There is a series of about eight kiosks in the lobby. People are told to go to concessions upstairs if paying by cash, etc..
Work is due to start soon on the theater upstairs. Rumors of a bar in the area of the old Coca Cola Freestyle to be made.
I was told yesterday that theater 12 will become the new auditorium for 4DX. And theater 2, which currently has 4DX, will become a ScreenX.
I assume that theater 12 will be changed first.
@zootopialover98
ScreenX was auditorium 4
I just googled the address of the theater, 106 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, and typed real estate. Looks like space at this address, 12 levels worth, which is what this theater has, is down as retail space available for lease. So it sounds like the theaters days are numbered. When, is anybody’s guess, but it looks like it’s been available for 7 months now. Who knows if the fate of the Barnes n Noble is numbered too. They are located next door in the same building.
As of Saturday January 15th 2021, theater is open and operating as normal. Posters inside we’re changed and feature NEW upcoming movies. Sunday has a very light schedule where most movies only have two early showtimes. Other new movies like Belle and Scream 5 have showings up till 8pm. Update: Showtimes for Monday thru Thursday January 20th have been added and are active for purchase. But only Belle and Scream 5 have showtimes, and all the others from the weekend are not posted. Theaters upstairs 9, 10 and 11 have screenings. It is possible that the theater will get a renovation and not close? No one at the theater is giving any good answers and seem “clueless” to any rumors. Unless they know something yet can’t say anything to the public.
To be continued…
Late Nov 2021/Early December 2021
Renovations begin to update E-Walk appearance to the new, updated Regal design (similar to Essex Crossing and the Union Square update). Work started on the entrance/box-office area first using the space previously used by Starbucks. The original entrance / box-office area closed around second week of December 2021. That space is supposedly going to a new Target coming next door.
Work stopped at top of lower escalators, with more changes to come.
@ridethectrain Theater 11 is indeed a flat screen. Only scope screens are theaters 3, 14, 15 and 16.
Theater 4 is currently undergoing a renovation.
Looks like it may become a ScreenX theater.
Theater now has 17 screens up from 14. All screens are floating with no masking.
Theater 1 - flat Theater 2 - flat Theater 3 (Screen X) - scope Theater 4 - flat (very tiny room) Theater 5 - flat (very tiny room) Theater 6 (4DX) - flat Theater 7 - flat Theater 8 - flat Theater 9 - flat (tiny room) Theater 10 - flat Theater 11 - flat Theater 12 - flat Theater 13 (RPX) - flat Theater 14 - scope Theater 15 - scope Theater 16 - scope Theater 17 - large flat screen
Most auditoriums that are flat are NOT recommended to view scope (widescreen) films. most notably theaters 4, 5, 9, and 12.
Before the renovations and unmasking of the screens. any of the original 14 theaters would have been fine to view either flat or scope movies. Now, do some research BEFORE choosing to see a movie theater. Know if the film you want to see is flat or scope, and which theater it is playing in. Otherwise you will be seeing a movie that is not may be way too small on their very small screens.
Page name of this theater should be changed to AMC Village 7.
Aspect ratio of the new Dolby Cinema screen (Theater 8) is a extremely big scope screen!
Also, I have noticed that they removed the Loews Theaters plaques that were above the movie posters around the theater. And there are paper-made directions signs all around the theater emphasizing AMC, not AMC Loews. The marquee outside still says Loews. I would surmise that this theater is next to be converted to an official AMC soon. That would leave only the Orpheum and Lincoln Square as the last two New York City theaters with Loews design and name afterwards.
Conversion from AMC Loews to AMC is about complete now. No longer an interior design of Loews. Now officially an AMC in all aspects. All six theaters were “gutted” and redone. Now with recliners. The recliners feature a heat button, that warms your back in the cold weather. Some of the auditoriums are now slightly stadium. Masking is no longer featured here. All screens are scope, except for theater three, which is flat. Which means in theater three, scope movies are projected on the flat screen with visible black bars on top and bottom (looks like letterboxed). The other theaters show flat movies with visible bars on the sides. Why they decided to take away the masking during this renovation is another blunder of and idea when AMC renovates or makes new theaters.
This page should be ready to get a new name soon:
CMX Cinemas New York East 62nd Street
This page should be ready to get a new name soon:
CMX Cinemas New York East 62nd Street
The theater should open real soon. It is now listed on the CMX app and website as coming soon.
Theater 7 is now equipped to screen 70mm features. So far 70mm films screened were first run DUNKIRK and PHANTOM THREAD. Repertory films screened were John Carpenter’s THE THING. Promised to be screened in 2018 is HOWARD THE DUCK.
This theater is also known as Alamo Drafthouse City Point, which is what the building and mall is called, and where the theater is housed.
The UA Sheepshead Bay’s ushers are not very courteous. Sheepshead Bay ushers don’t care if people are still watching the credits and usually downright refuse to shut off the lights to wait until the movie is over. They hustle in and turn on those damn bright lights to clean the theater. It should be a rule that if any customers are still in the theater watching the credits roll, the ushers must wait till it’s all over to clean the theater! No exceptions!
Theater 11 is now a RPX screen.
The ushers are better now than stated back in 2006. While they might turn on the house lights to clean during the credits, then won’t usually turn them on if people are still in the theater watching. Unlike the UA Sheepshead Bay’s ushers, Court Street’s ushers are very courteous. Sheepshead Bay doesn’t care if people are still watching the credits and usually downright refuse to shut off the lights to wait until the movie us over!
The Alpine Theatre in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, was originally a Loew’s theatre and first opened on June 6, 1921. Carlson & Wiseman were the architects.
At the time, the Alpine Theatre was the first Loew’s theatre anywhere with its entire seating capacity (2,200) on one floor, without a balcony or gallery.
The tapered auditorium was 100 feet at its widest, with the last of the 55 rows of seats about 76 feet from the screen. The stage had no fly gallery or grid-iron, but had an apron just large enough to accommodate a vocalist or musical instrumentalist between film showings.
Variety described the Alpine Theatre’s interior as “decorated in a tan and gold color scheme, the general atmosphere created being one of brightness. The side walls are paneled and painted in an imitation of tapestry. The floors are carpeted with red velvet. A good system of floor pitch gives a clear view of the screen from any part of the house.”
Alpine Cinemas eight theaters make current movies come alive as massive screens merge with Dolby Digital sound to keep each crowd of 200 or more immersed in the action.
The signature theater injects even more realism with roomy stadium seats and 3-D capabilities that add an extra dimension without having to bring a 20-foot friend to act out the movie.
Before shows, guests can stock up on refreshments at the snack bar equipped with savory popcorn and bubbly soda.
Auditoriums
Screen #1 Capacity: 235 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL Info: text
Screen #2 Capacity: 210 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #3 Capacity: 114 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #4 Capacity: 111 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #5 Capacity: 111 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #6 Capacity: 118 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #7 Capacity: 117 ( 5 HC ) seats Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D Sound: DIGITAL
Screen #8 Capacity: 165 ( 5 HC ) seats (ALL NEW STADIUM SEATING) Projection: DIGITAL / REAL D 3D : DIGITAL
Accessibility All screens are wheelchair accessible. Listening Devices Listening devices may be provided upon request
Built in 1963 in the shell of a turn of the century fire station, Cinema Village is the oldest continuously operated cinema in Greenwich Village and one of the oldest continuously operated art cinemas in the city.
Through most of it’s first three decades of life Cinema Village was one of Manhattan’s several repertory cinemas. Showcasing a canon of vintage classics, cult and contemporary critical favorites on double bills that would usually change three times a week, this once essential programming format has now largely died out in commercial cinemas in the city and around the country. Before the video revolution, short of a private film collection, going to a repertory cinema was virtually the only way to see many films after their initial theatrical run. Rep houses like Cinema Village, the recently re-opened Thalia and the now long closed Bleeker Street, Carnegie Hall, 8th Street Playhouse and Regency were the autodidacts' film school and favorite haunts of cineastes for decades.
Undermined by home video, buy outs by major circuits and real estate development, commercial repertory cinema virtually disappeared in the city by the late 1980’s. Cinema Village only escaped closing and survived with a switch to limited engagements of highly alternative first run programming.
This resulted in an eclectic mix of slip through-the-cracks American indie sleepers (Red Rock West), the occasional revival (In the Realm of the Senses, Two Lane Blacktop, The Leopard), documentaries (Theremin, Waco: Rules of Engagement, Kurt & Courtney), festivals, animation compilations, Japanese cult cinema (Tokyo Decadence, Angel Dust, Ghost in the Shell) and heavy doses of Hong Kong cinema.
In the early nineties before Jackie Chan, John Woo, Michele Yeoh and their stunt coordinators went Hollywood, Cinema Village became known, through its annual festivals and other bookings, as the place to see the amazing Hong Kong films of what would soon to acknowledged as a filmmaking golden age. For filmgoers who never ventured to Chinatown or had only seen blurry bootleg videos, these films were a revelation and they would soon have a profound influence on international filmmaking styles. During this period we also had the privilege of playing host to personal appearances by talents such as Michele Yeoh, Chow Yun Fat, Wong Kar Wai and Peter Chan.
In 2000 our patron’s support was rewarded with a long deferred renovation and expansion of screens. When we reopened, we had transformed ourselves into a thoroughly modern three screen facility with state of the presentation. Our additional screens allow an even more diverse programming mix and permit us to extend runs of special films to extraordinary lengths (Mulholland Drive: 18 weeks; Yi Yi: 21 weeks; The Piano Teacher: 28 weeks).
In 2001 we quietly introduced digital video projection capabilities to accommodate the increasing reliance on digital video by independent productions. This now gives us the potential to play deserving features without the burden to distributors or filmmakers of an expensive conversion to celluloid.
Nearing its fourth decade, Cinema Village is proud of its longevity and thankful to have survived the pitfalls that have taken down so many other independent cinemas. Notwithstanding our resourcefulness, our ability to survive is testimony entirely to the New York City audience. We could probably only exist where we are: in the midst of most diverse, cosmopolitan and cine-aware of cities.
Auditoriums
Screen #1 Capacity: 155 seats Projection: DCP, QuickTime, Blue-ray, 35mm,16mm Sound: Dolby Digital
Screen #2 Capacity: 63 seats Projection: DCP, QuickTime, Blue-ray, 35mm Sound: Dolby Digital
Screen #3 Capacity: 69 seats Projection: DCP, QuickTime, Blue-ray Sound: Dolby Digital Accessibility
Theater 1 is wheelchair accessible.
Listening Devices Listening devices may be provided upon request
Correcting John Fink’s post from January 10, 2017: It is Theater One that shows 35mm films such as Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday. In my opinion, the 35mm prints they screen are pretty decent. Nothing too scratched or faded. Always as great time there, and projectiin is usually a top class affair.
I saw Valerian in 3D here today. Theater is getting run down. Beginning to feel like the Pavilion. Bathrooms needed cleaning, theater seven’s screen had black marks on it. Was surprised to discover a new theater eight located all the way in the back. It was a new stadium style theater. Not sure when exactly it was added. Information should be changed on this page to note Alpine now has eight screens!! There is a banner up in the lobby showing a “promised” upcoming remodeling of the theater.