{"id":332314,"date":"2026-08-29T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332314\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:08:16","slug":"nyc-council-members-push-to-keep-amc-theater-in-kips-bay-open-amid-nyu-langones-land-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332314\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC council members push to keep AMC Theater in Kips Bay open amid NYU Langone&#8217;s land purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some local lawmakers are making a push to try and keep the AMC Theater in Kips Bay open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The land where the theater is located was bought last year by NYU Langone and the theater is now set to close by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wabc_articles_804\/ab9706333dde066f03a64a1b48fec199.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But on Friday, Assemblyman Keith Powers, along with Representative Jerry Nadler, several councilmembers and the Manhattan borough president, sent a letter to NYU Langone asking them to come to the table to discuss ways to keep the theater open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some local lawmakers are making a push to try and keep the AMC Theater in Kips Bay open.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4097,47671,23878,9,56,63,65,64,37943],"class_list":["post-332314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-jerry-nadler","tag-keith-powers","tag-kips-bay","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyu-langone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332314","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=332314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}