AMC Loews Kips Bay 15

I was the Managing Director who opened this theatre--it's a great neighborhood theatre spanning two city blocks! Theatre 10 boasts the largest screen (non-IMAX) in Manhattan - 68', and 676 seats in that house!

Is this on the site of the original Kips Bay Theatre I remember from the 50s & 60s?

It is; it's on the exact location of the original Kips Bay Theatre/Bay Cinema. Where the theatre itself stood is where the lobby of the Loews Kips Bay currently stands.

I'm surprised to hear that this theatre is doing so well. I've never actually attended a movie here because whatever playing here is usually closer to where I am at that moment. And that is Kipps Bay's problem. It is over on Second Avenue two long blocks from the Lexington Avenue subway.

Only go to see a movie here in houses 7, 8, 9 and 10.
You have been warned ;-)

Went to see POSEIDON today, because it was being digitally projected and only at this location. To my disappointment, I discovered that they instead projected a print. It was obvious after I noticed film rolling out of the projector. When I told guest services they didn't believe me, even though I told them I was in the film industry. Has anyone had this fraud perpetrated on them at Kips Bay?

Kip's Bay has the WORST quality control in it's projection in any major theater. This is the closest theater to my home, and I would probably go there a lot more often than I do if anyone gave a crap about the quality of the image and sound. It's always something, focus, framing, brightness....they really do not care. I saw SUPERMAN RETURNS over the summer (digitally projected), and the image was so dark that in several nighttime scenes, the screen was completely black. My complaints were met with shoulder shrugs from the employees. This place has the potential to be the best multi-screen house in the city, but I guess they're making enough money with the apathetic way they run their business. It's a shame.

Does anyone know an online source that lists BY SCREEN what movies are playing at this theater? I hate showing up and then learning that my movie is playing on the dinkiest screen in the theater. The NYT prints this info in its weekend edition, but you can't find it online.

The theatre opened on May 14th, 1999 with premiere engagements being The Mummy (on four screens), Tea With Mussolini (on two screens), The Winslow Boy (on two screens), Election (on three screens), Trippin', Get Real, Shakespeare In Love and a special reissue of Saturday Night Fever (I can't really explain that one, must be relevant with Kips Bay).

On a fast trip to New York a couple of years ago, in desperate curiostiy to visit a new midtown multiplex, popped in to catch Jarhead...The theatre does an adequate job of spiritually replacing the 34th St East, the Murray Hill, the Bay Cinema (on which it physically stands) and the 34th St Showplace...the downside is with all that product it becomes a movie mall rather than retain the personality, the studio ties that those screens had with their 9 screens at time of closing. The screen I was in was certainly a decent experience even if I slept thru most of the movie due to jet lag. Loews was on its last legs as an organization I believe at the time.

Saturday Night Fever day and dated at the 34th St East with the Orpheum and State when it opened and its booking might just have been a wink and a nod to that - several other options possible i.e ET and Grease which day dated at the Bay Cinema when it was in Walter Reade's hands like the 34th Street

An IMAX installation is coming soon to this location, according to a sign in the lobby.

worth noting re David R's comment that AMC has rolled out in-lobby ticketing machines in most of their NYC theatres which give the screen #s. They had this at the Empire for a while, more recently now at the Kips Bay and Lincoln Square etc. Still not ideal because you have to be at the theatre to look on the machine, and can't check on the internet. But it is an improvement over when the only way to find out was to call or to wait on line and ask at the box office.