Clearview's 62nd & Broadway Cinema
1871 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
1871 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
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Cineplex Odeon opened this single screen theatre on December 8, 1989 with “The War of the Roses”. Clearview took over operations when Cineplex Odeon merged with Loews, but had to divest some Manhattan cinemas due to antitrust concerns. The movie theatre is downstairs.
In early-2009, Clearview closed the theatre. As of June 2009, the auditorium is soon to be used by the New York Institute of Technology.
Contributed by
Gerald A. DeLuca, Howard B. Haas
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This was almost the last single screen cinema in Manhattan. It was a nice cozy theater, but Clearview never knew how to book the right pictures there! It reminded me alot of the now also closed Cineplex Odeons Worldwide Cinemas. Same design and color scheme!
We can dream but wouldn’t this make a nice companion to the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas almost diagonally across the street…Book this as the flagship with 300 seats for the opening first x weeks and move the feature over after that into the plex
Or let Clearview’s sibling IFC run it as IFC Center: Uptown. Sure, it’s like bringing back Angelika 57, but this is a pretty nice auditorium and isn’t as awkwardly laid out as Lincoln Plaza Cinemas where going to the bathroom is an adventure. Clearview could never figure out an identity for the place and it seemed like it was completely written off. For a while it couldn’t play day and date with Lincoln Plaza and Lincoln Square, later I think it played some features day and date with Lincoln Square. There are a lot of art theaters in the area including Lincoln Plaza and The Paris, but none do quite what IFC does.
Then again we saw how well Cinema Latino worked out.
When I passed by yesterday, THEATRE CLOSED had been removed from the attraction board, which is now totally blank. A sign in the lobby for a nearby technical college suggested that the school may have taken over the site, perhaps to use as an auditorium or to convert to some other use. But that’s only a guess.
This is the right theater. I made this comment originally for the Clearview 62nd and 1st Avenue theater.
I passed this theater today and it now has a big sign up surrounding the entrance saying coming soon NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) auditorium.
Yes, it’s now official. Renovations have started on what will be called the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. The plate glass entrance has been painted over with signage, but the attraction board (now empty) is still there. More information can be found at www.nyit.edu
Here is a 2009 photo of the former 62nd & Broadway Cinema.
The introduction implies that Clearview had to divest of some locations during the Loews takeover of Cineplex Odeon. In actuality, Loews had to divest of some of its locations, allowing Clearview to take over this one.
A video tour of the new premises can be seen here:
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I have been wondering lately why the Lincoln Plaza owners didn’t consider buying the theatre. It would have made for a good seventh screen.