{"id":329716,"date":"2026-08-26T00:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329716\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T00:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:24:33","slug":"ev-grieve-closing-credits-for-amc-kips-bay-15-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329716\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Closing credits for AMC Kips Bay 15: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhWlCT6AQIRItIPOxb3hPwAC0MXekhmaSM8wFSa97Qul959EmEf8raBkyXiEraMPRZs9xKjV1dJwCig5FXtAatBUNyQFZnaMqEi8gYwwe_rEEV5iSQGAmJmn_12uAIsI_8A8JtwbJ0PaAWI6pBK5b-RwlYpRBv7yjOEgpis3m_NV6m4GKXIqy-sqCdjJxA\/IMG_6809.HEIC\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6809.HEIC.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EVG photo from 2022\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Updated 1 p.m.: A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/save-the-amc-kips-bay-15-theater-from-closure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">petition<\/a> has been filed to save the theater, which is set to close so NYU hospitals can expand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>East Village theatergoers will soon have one less choice for catching a movie nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The AMC Kips Bay 15 will close at the end of the year, Variety <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/amc-kips-bay-closing-new-york-movie-theater-1236841776\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports<\/a>. The 15-screen multiplex on Second Avenue at 31st Street is AMC&#8217;s second-largest theater in Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An AMC spokesperson said the closure is &#8220;following the property owner&#8217;s decision to exercise its contractual right to terminate the theatre&#8217;s lease before its scheduled expiration.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the Kips Bay programming leans heavily toward the latest Hollywood blockbusters, the theater has often tossed a few indie and specialty releases into the mix \u2014 making it a useful alternative to the East Village&#8217;s movie houses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The multiplex opened in 1999; AMC took it over in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVG photo from 2022\u00a0 Updated 1 p.m.: A petition has been filed to save the theater, which is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-329716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329716","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=329716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}