{"id":352544,"date":"2026-09-21T16:06:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352544\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:06:41","slug":"protestors-rally-around-amc-kips-bay-movie-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352544\/","title":{"rendered":"Protestors rally around AMC Kips Bay movie theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community groups and elected officials continued their fight to save the AMC Kips Bay movie theater on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. The theater, which is the only major movie theater left on Manhattan&#8217;s East Side, is set to close at the end of the year, prompting local residents to rally around the business. NYU Langone is eyeing the property to expand health care access for the community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P24-20260920-115857.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231967\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P22-20260920-115625.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231969\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P35-20260920-120424.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231985\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P14-20260920-114954.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231968\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P16-20260920-115325.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231953\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P38-20260920-120539.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231976\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"8503\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P53-20260920-121043.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9232004\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P54-20260920-121118.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231999\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P61-20260920-121916.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231995\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P55-20260920-121119.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231994\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"8665\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P11-20260920-114621.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231954\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P13-20260920-114814.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231965\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P60-20260920-121302.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9232002\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Assemblymember Keith Powers was joined by other Elected Officials as he headed a Rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday September 20, 2026. 1136. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P26-20260920-115946.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9231966\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Assembly member Keith Powers was joined by other elected officials as he headed a rally in an effort to stop the planned closure of the AMC Theatre located at 570 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community groups and elected officials continued their fight to save the AMC Kips Bay movie theater on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[267,75,84,83,9,24,264,10,12,63,7427],"class_list":["post-352544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-photos-and-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352544","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=352544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}