{"id":329170,"date":"2026-08-25T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329170\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:22:10","slug":"amc-theater-in-manhattans-kips-bay-closing-at-the-end-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329170\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC theater in Manhattan&#8217;s Kips Bay closing at the end of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beloved AMC Kips Bay 15 movie theater is set to close at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-screen theater on Second Avenue near East 30th Street opened in 1999, with AMC taking over operations in 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said the property owner is terminating the lease before its scheduled expiration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The theatre has been an important part of the Kips Bay community and surrounding neighborhoods, providing guests with a place to enjoy the magic of the movies together,&#8221; a statement from the spokesperson read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York State Assemblyman Keith Powers said Monday that he is talking with his colleagues to see if they can prevent the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A closure would be a big loss for Kips Bay and beyond,&#8221; he wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithPowersNYC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A formal closure date is expected to be announced in the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No information about what will replace the theater has been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The beloved AMC Kips Bay 15 movie theater is set to close at the end of the year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-329170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329170","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=329170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}