Clearview Roslyn Cinemas

The Roslyn Theatre is open showing Art & independent films with one show nightly and matinees on week ends. The front of the building has been redone in an all white stucco style covering the original facade. It is now operated by Clearview Cinemas. It has 4 screens and from the size of the building each theatre has to be very small. Seth I think the clock bit the dust in the conversion to the Quad.

this for years was kb Roslyn

Kurt Brenner had a few theatres in the old days including Bellmore The Movies.

Still a great theater the bellmore

This sucker is still OPEN?!! This was a class act all the way. Yep, it was small but it was very, very well maintained and they always had great art house stuff. I saw "A Room with a View" and "Babette's Feast" here in the 80's. Great place and I'm glad to hear that it's still open.

Check out the sexy ad from 1963
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I posted this on the Cove Theater site but figured I'd see if gets a response here:

There was a theater somewhere on the north shore where I saw the Greg Kihn Band and Marshall Crenshaw in 1982 (or thereabouts). It was definitely an old movie theater and obviously had stage facilities. They had removed all the seats from the orchestra level (at least in the front of the orchestra) while seating remained in the balcony. I remember that only people of drinking age (18 at the time) were allowed in the lower level, where alcohol was served. My two friends and I were only 16 or 17 so we were allowed only up in the balcony - but when the Kihn Band came out, we were able to sneak downstairs and get right up to the stage.

I seem to recall the place was up against an embankment and had a parking lot along its side and rear. The emankment might have been for a Long Island Rail Road trestle or perhaps an elevated road way such as the one for Route 25A as it goes through Roslyn. In fact, I thought it may have been a place called the Roslyn Theater, but I can find no such listing here. I was aware of the Northstage Theater Restaurant being in existence at the time - though I had never been there myself.

Can anyone from the area help me identify the theater? I remember a concert venue called My Father's Place in Roslyn, but I believe that was converted from a bowling alley and I don't recall ever being there. This place was an actual theater w/ balcony. Help?

It definitely was not the Roslyn Theatre. They've had a few local bands play over the years on a tiny makeshift stage, and even ran midnight shows from time to time. However, the seats always remained intact downstairs, they never had a liquor license, and by '82 I think it had already been twinned. Based on the description you give, no theatre on the North Shore in Nassau County would fit the bill. Could it have been the Calderone in Hempstead, which ran live acts in the 70's and early 80's? Or perhaps you were at My Father's Place on the other end of town in Roslyn?

I meant to add...no theatre on the North Shore in Nassau Couty would fit the bill...except for the guess you already made, the Cove...

Thanks nova, but no, it wasn't the Calderone - I've been there. And it definitely wasn't My Father's Place - which was all on one level without balcony. Maybe it was the Cove. I guess they could have run some concerts around that time as perhaps the whole dinner-theater concept they had going under the Northstage Theater Restaurant name might have been declining in popularity. I'm still in contact with one of the guys I went to the show with... I'll have to see if his memory is a bit clearer than mine on the subject.

I've only seen four (4) films here: TOOTSIE, 2010, ROCKY IV and DEAD POETS SOCIETY.

A recent exterior view of the Roslyn Cinemas can be found in this article: http://www.forgotten-ny.com/OUT.OF.TOWN/roslyn.tower/tower.html

Sometime back I read something interesting - the theatre was on leased land. Clearview has purchased the land under its theatre. I wonder if that was a common practice.

The theater had been refirbished with new seats in all the cinemas recently

My grandfather did some of the original woodwork inside of this theatre. He lived in an apartment on the top floor of what is now the nail salon, next door to the theatre. My father was born there. I would love to see pictures of the inside of both of these.