A beloved movie theater in Kips Bay is set to close at the end of the year, leaving some longtime moviegoers concerned about the loss.<\/p>\n
AMC confirmed to NY1 that the AMC Kips Bay 15 on Second Avenue, near East 31st Street, will close at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n
The theater opened in 1999, with AMC taking over the location in 2006.<\/p>\n
Moviegoers who spoke with NY1 said the theater has become a longtime part of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis theater has been a cultural institution of this neighborhood since it was built like 25 years ago. I’ve been coming to this theater my entire life,\u201d one moviegoer said.<\/p>\n
He added that residents should organize to try to keep the theater open.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would hope that the residents of this neighborhood can organize and let their representatives know that this is not something we’re cool with,\u201d the moviegoer said.<\/p>\n
Another customer said the theater’s importance goes beyond watching movies.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me it’s definitely a loss because it’s not only about the movies and the theater, and everything. It’s just like the community,\u201d the moviegoer said.<\/p>\n
AMC said the theater is closing because the property owner is exercising its right to terminate the lease before it expires.<\/p>\n
There have been reports that NYU Langone Health is planning to expand onto the site.<\/p>\n
NY1 has reached out to NYU Langone Health for comment.<\/p>\n
AMC will continue to operate eight other locations in Manhattan: AMC Lincoln Square 12, AMC Empire 25, AMC 34th Street 14, AMC 84th Street 6, AMC Village 7, AMC 19th St. East 6, AMC Orpheum 7 and AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beloved movie theater in Kips Bay is set to close at the end of the year, leaving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3478,25,288,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,1103,27,200],"class_list":["post-329144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-local-business","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-ny1","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}