Regal Union Square
850 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10003
850 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10003
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Ahh, the Selwyn… a doorman who worked at my theatre also worked at the Selwyn told me they had to close the main floor and make everyone sit up in the balcony because the rats were chasing the customers!
I remember once seeing a film at The Selwyn, a horror film no less and a rat ran down the isle. You would have sworn it was part of the show, a girl screamed and ran down the isle waving her arms in the air. Most of the audience told her to shut the f%$# up and watch the movie. LOL, ah the good old days.
It’s all true but how can anyone focus on the movie with the thought of a mouse may jump in my bag. br91975 my first instinct was to complain to management and all I got was a “we’re so embarrassed.” I want to know what happens when something huge is premiering and the theater is too crowded for people the have their feet across chairs. (Luckily I was only seeing Miss Congeniality 2-which didn’t capture the cities inerest) You have to watch with rodents jumping around you. I’m sure they all have mice but as the saying goes out of sight out of mind. Bottom line I don’t want to see them. This is a big fancy expensive theater they should be able to afford pest control.
I tolerate the Union Square well enough – Movieguy718 does bring up some valid points – but I miss the Waverly (in its incarnation as a first-run mainstream house with the occasional specialty flick) and the Art Greenwich, despite their quirks and sometimes somewhat imperfect comfort levels. Ah, for the heyday of the 1-4 screen neighborhood moviehouse in Manhattan…
I’ve never had that experience at the Union Square thankfully, but I wonder if anyone who has filed a complaint with Regal’s home office -not that there’s a guarantee they’d give a you-know-what or that the person filing the complaint would receive a response, but anyway…
Yeah…they have a few mice. But you can actually HEAR THE MOVIES here! Clearly. Every word. Without straining. The picture is also always ON THE SCREEN. ALL OF IT. In focus. Consistently. There’s not another theatre in the entire city that has such consistently fine presentation. I’ll live with the mice. The popcorn IS expensive, but it’s GOOD! They all have mice…Kips Bay, Ziegfeld, Ewalk
My favorite memory of this theater is that of people jumping up and leaving due to the high volume of mice. They scurry across you feet. I was extremely afraid to eat my popcorn after witnessing how free they were, and it’s like 6 dollars for a small. With the extreme prices they could attempt to exterminate. It was disgusting and horrible. The employees are like “we’re sooo embarrassed by the mice” and they very well should be.
While I haven’t been there lately, I’ve been advised by someone who has that while seated you must keep your feet up off the floor, since the place is infested with rats – once a UA, always a UA…
This strikes me as incredibly lazy – the LED-display marquee makes mention of only two of what I’d guess to be the 10-12 films currently playing at the Union Square Stadium 14. Granted, they’re both Oscar winners – ‘The Aviator’ and ‘Sideways’ – and both films, irrelevant of snagging those awards last month are worth seeing, but wouldn’t you think a theatre would want to exert as much energy touting ALL the films they’re showing at once as they do an online and telephone ticket ordering service?
This place has two decent size screens and 12 small ones. HOWEVER…they have the most consistent projection and sound in the entire city. Probably the best place to go for a good presentation. And that includes the Ziegfeld.