Center Cinemas
42-17 Queens Boulevard,
Sunnyside,
NY
11104
42-17 Queens Boulevard,
Sunnyside,
NY
11104
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Additional Info
Architects: Harrison G. Wiseman
Previous Names: Center Theatre
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News About This Theater
- Feb 20, 2013 — Lights dimming on Sunnyside movie theater’s run
Small neighborhood house has withstood the test of time. Originally opened as the Center Theater in 1940, it was twinned down the middle in the 1980’s. Then one of the sides was cut in half to make it a triplex. Then space was created in the basement for cinemas 4 & 5. The theatres are small but the great Queens Boulevard location gives it plenty of exposure. Once upon a time it played second run double features but now its all first run.
The Center Cinemas was closed in February 2015.
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Recent comments (view all 48 comments)
A new Regal multiplex is coming to Queens Boulevard on the Sunnyside/Long Island City border, and under the shadow of the #7 elevated subway line. Sketch and details here
Correction, it was 5 screens, not 6 screens.
An update on preparations for the Regal multiplex, which will now have more screens than previously announced, can be found here
Regal withdrew from it’s planned theater in Paramus, NJ to have been located on the top level of the vacant Sears on Route 17. I would bet the same for the multiplex above and for their Flushing-Tangram site as well. Doubt we will see any new theaters built for several years thanks to Covid.Another new theater planned for a Bronx mixed use project (bronxpoint.nyc) has been scrapped. The exhibitor was never identified.
optimist008 Regal also withdrew from the former Walmart at the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa, NY and the Walmart in Riverhead, NY. All long prior to Covid.
And an unidentified exhibitor likely withdrew from the downtown Yonkers mixed used project. Expect Bow Tie to also drop it’s multiplex planned for Greenwich, CT after having closed it’s theater next to the railroad station. Damn this virus!!!!!
Once again a Center of community agitation. Latest news article and photos can be viewed here
Permits have been filed for the building which would replace the Center Cinemas and its vacant neighboring properties: https://newyorkyimby.com/2021/11/permits-filed-for-43-42-43rd-avenue-in-sunnyside-queens.html
A decade after it was purchased by a local developer, the old Sunnyside Center Cinemas building on Queens Boulevard may finally be demolished to make way for an apartment complex
I drove by the former theater site this morning, March 23. The mega-theater was never built. Not sure about the apartment complex.