Clearview's First & 62nd
400 East 62nd Street,
New York,
NY
10021
400 East 62nd Street,
New York,
NY
10021
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Dismissed from the day it opened by locals, this 1991 multi-level multiplex is still surviving while many other Upper East Side theaters continue to close. Built by Cineplex Odeon as the long delayed replacement for the highly sought after Baronet & Coronet property, the site never gained the clout it needed and the Baronet & Coronet lasted longer as a result.
A Garth Drabinsky faux marble plex with good sound, smallish screens, and a victim of that unique Manhattan crime of being one block too far.
A battle with the city over the escalator caused several aborted openings. The seventh screen apparently came and went.
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Al Alvarez
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That’s just the way MovieTickets.com lists the name— INCORRECTLY! Perhaps they copied it from Cinema Treasures.
Or Clearview’s website. Loews used to have a possessive back when Loew was the owner (Loew’s) but the rest is history, as it’s now called AMC Loews.
Didn’t Savage Grace with Julianne Moore also recently run here (opened on May 30th)?
I realized that was the 62nd and Broadway that ran it.
The theatre opened on November 27th, 1991 with four open auditoriums running My Girl (on three screens) and For The Boys. A week later, the other two auditoriums opened with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (on two screens, at least one print was 70mm).
Renewing link.
I passed by this theater today and they have signs up saying coming soon NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) auditorium.
I just realized this is the wrong theater I made the above comment about. The theater I meant is on 62nd and Broadway and I never knew its name.
The seventh screen lasted from 1996 to 2002.
One of the aborted opening dates was July 28th, 1991. Two prints of Mobsters and two prints of Another You were listed as playing.