shut down<\/a> by the end of the year \u2014 and that NYU Langone had purchased the retail complex that houses the theater \u2014 has prompted a huge public outcry over the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\nA group of local elected officials sent a letter to NYU Langone\u2019s CEO seeking more information about the closure. A petition calling for the theater to be saved had more than 8,000 signatures as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
In its letter, the Save Kips Bay Coalition raised concerns about the loss of the theater and the future of the Fairway Market housed in the same complex.<\/p>\n
\u201cLosing key neighborhood businesses\u2014especially the AMC movie theater and the Fairway supermarket\u2014would mean losing our main local grocery store and a place where neighbors go to relax and spend time together,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cThese businesses also serve your employees who live, work, and raise families in Kips Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Fairway has indicated it intends to stay. A representative for the supermarket told Manhattan Community Board 6 that the store has a long-term lease at its Kips Bay location and that Fairway looks forward to remaining in the neighborhood \u201cfor many years to come,\u201d according to the board.<\/p>\n
Assemblymember Keith Powers said he and others are still trying to \u201cunwind\u201d how NYU Langone acquired the complex.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat they confirmed to us last week was that they had purchased this property over a year ago,\u201d Powers said. \u201cIt’s unclear if that was a formal purchase and we haven’t seen it registered yet or if they have an agreement in place to purchase this property and still have to go through the formalities of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Powers said he couldn\u2019t comment on the feasibility of retaining the theater but said that he and others are \u201ckeeping our fingers crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manhattan Community Board 6 will hold a public meeting on the theater\u2019s closure on Wednesday, Sept. 9.<\/p>\n
NYU Langone and AMC Theatres did not immediately respond to Gothamist’s requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers are continuing efforts to pressure NYU Langone to preserve a beloved movie theater in Kips Bay.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-338329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338329","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=338329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}