Rockville Centre Cinema
340 Sunrise Highway,
Rockville Centre,
NY
11570
340 Sunrise Highway,
Rockville Centre,
NY
11570
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Bloop have you lost your mind,,Rvc is a great town with high end homes with loyal theater patrons ./Yes the bathrooms need a redo ….were you coming from?
Rockville Centre is a congested little unfriendly town CRAMMED with it’s own rules and regulations (some of which include not being able to park in front of your own house!). You don’t wanna open this theater back up. I was at this theater only once a few years ago, and the friend I was with who went to the bathroom, also commented on it’s “haunting atmosphere”…..other people posted such comments. What was up with the restrooms in there? Was someone killed down there in 1968?
too bad…….. a rent at this theater should be about $3,800
It’s empty because the landlord wants a ridiculuos amount of money for rent.
how can this still be empty???
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Aerial view, you can see the red and blue building.
As far as I have seen it is still vacant.
Anyone know if this theater is still available??…..Longislandmovies??? anyone???
I think the Rockville Centre would do very well with more mainstream fare than is currently programmed at the Malverne. It’s in a good location and from reports on this page, hadn’t really been wanting in attendance, even at the very end. The thing is that restrictive lease covenant that curtails hours of operation due to the small parking lot it shares with the Bank. I wonder if that’ll keep any larger chains away.
Malverne is ok but it would be better to have some variety in ownership. Oceanside was run poorly. Malverne would be competing with itself if it had another theatre to run independent films.
Shouldn’t this also have an AKA of “RKO Rockville Centre Twin” or “RKO Twin”?
The theatre closed last January, AMC didn’t want to operate twin theatres. Their was a posibility the owners of Malverne might take it over.
do you know why it closed?
closed 9 months ………..and should not be ………..
I wonder if this will open anytime soon. It’s almost been a year now. I’ve toyed with the notion of looking into it myself. But I really know very little about theatre management, costs, etc.
Does anyone here know something about what goes into a venture like this? I know I would have to lease the theatre and pay taxes, etc. What other costs are there? I don’t know the process of renting a 35mm film or how that works? Or if you need a lisense to even show movies.
Anybody smart like that?
if some one does not open this soon …………………THIS IS A GOLD MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
The last RKO HOUSE on longisland…..
I drove by here Saturday and it is still clean and well kept. That awesome marquee, I would hate to see it go. I wonder why nobody grabs this one.
ALL you people that post you want a theater in new york …This is your chance a small twin that can still make money ….a lease deal that locals love …there is a reason this theater closed in 2006 over 15 years after all the other RKO HOUSES WERE LONG GONE…RUN INTO THE GROUND BY LOWES BOOKERS……..Grab this one !!!!1
The seat were so bad in this theater. If you are over 5'10" forget about it. My parents dragged me to see “The Sting” there when I was like five. The bathrooms are strange there. Very haunted feeling from them.
The seat were so bad in this theater. If you are over 5'10" forget about it. My parents dragged me to see “The Sting” there when I was like five. The bathrooms are strange there. Very haunted feeling from them.
The seat were so bad in this theater. If you are over 5'10" forget about it. My parents dragged me to see “The Sting” there when I was like five. The bathrooms are strange there. Very haunted feeling from them.
I passed this theater last Thursday evening. Still looks the same as it did in the photos I posted above that I took in February. There is now a “for rent” sign on the side panels of the marquee. There are no gates on the building at all, the doors are merely locked and one can peer through the large windows that front Sunrise Hwy and see the candy counter in full view. As I said previously, it looks as if it were closed during off business hours just waiting for the manager to show up and open the box office.
What is going on with this theater ,has anything gone in this space,
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Came across an old copy of Newsday I saved from the time just after John Lennon’s murder. I also have copies of the NY Post and Daily News from this time and it seems that only in Newsday did theater chains like RKO run these sort of throwback block ads:
RKO block ad
Elsewhere in the paper, RKO also had a smaller block for its bargain-priced third run cinemas (at the time priced at “80 cents at all times”) such as the Mineola, Valley Stream and Hempstead Theaters.