AMC Stony Brook 17
2196 Nesconset Highway,
Stony Brook,
NY
11790
2196 Nesconset Highway,
Stony Brook,
NY
11790
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Please update, total seats 1403, AMC recently completed their conversion to recliner seats, project was delayed due to covid-19 and IMAX now has Laser Projection (also with recliners)
what a lovely guest services sign…
Only a handful of screens are open right now, so I went searching and found the link below which indicates a major upgrade is in process. The AMC dine in in Levittown has a “Laser at AMC” tag now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AMCsAList/comments/vnmq80/amc_stony_brook_17_ny_renovations/
Grand opening ad in photos
Please update, total seats 3083. Only IMAX and Dolby is RSVP. Other screens still unreserved.
Please update, Also, IMAX theatre opened February 27, 2009 with Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. First IMAX Theatres in Suffok County, open the same day as Regal Deer Park.
Also, AMC and Loews merged, using AMC as the brand name and it open in 1998 with 15 screens. 2 auditoriums weren’t open at Grand Opening due to the county wasn’t crazy about 17 screens in their neighborhood.. A few years later, Loews and the county got the ok to open the remaining two screens.
I don’t see what the big deal is with recliners. I’d just as soon see most movies on my home TV when they become available for less money and be able to sit in my PJs and eat my own snacks rather than having somebody running around serving food while I’m trying to watch the movie. Plus, I wouldn’t have to drive 15 miles to the closest theater. Ah, for the good old days when each community had it’s own theater and you could walk to it.
Hell must have frozen over, the long awaited auditorium remodels have begun. I’ve been told it’ll take a year, with the initial goal of having rooms 1 and 2 (IMAX) complete by Spring 2019. Staff thinks all rooms will get recliners, but aren’t 100% sure, given that some of the smaller rooms would be left with less than 50 seats as a result.
The recliners are among the worse “innovation” that chains are adding to their facilities. I avoid them like the plague. They decrease the seating and increase the cost of attending. If I had my dithers there would be no food allowed.
Remember the day you just went to a movie? Now they have all these bells and whistles and charge you an arm and a leg.
My new house is not far from this theatre. When will they be adding the reclining seats for this theatre.
Better exterior photo uploaded.
Thanks for the information.
No they didn’t change any existing auditoriums. The building was originally constructed with 17 auditoriums 2 of which were never furnished. They were used for dry storage such as maintenance items. They then added seats to these 2 “rooms” changing the theatre to a 17plex.
Did they cut two of their theaters in half to go from 15 to 17?
Next year it will house an IMAX screen.
This theatre was constructed and opened for operation as a Loews Theatre on December 23rd, 1998. This theatre did originally open as a 15 screen theatre. Shortly after National Amusements opened their Holstville location (Island 16 De Lux) Loews decided to add seats to 2 auditoriums that were already built during original construction. This upgrade (renovation) ensured Loews operated the largest theatre (screens)in Suffolk County. Which is still the case today. This building is currently owned and operated by AMC Theatres following AMC’s merger with Loews which took place in January 2006. If anyone has questions about this building please ask in post, I worked in this building for it’s first 10 years in operation.
It used to be a Loews I believe.
Before the megaplex was built, Loews operated a triplex in the same shopping center. I believe it had always been a triplex so my guess is the #2 was referring to the actual theatre in the complex. I will add the listing for this theatre.
Does anyone know where that theater Robert mentions was? Robert, perhaps you will add it?
In this 1975 ad it shows a Loews Stony Brook 2, I don’t find this theatre on CT?
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I worked at this theatre from 2001-2003, the actual Theatre count is 17 now since there was always plans for 17, but Loews could not get the Town to approve the extra theatres. Finally in late 2002, there were 2 very small theatres added to the count, they are located on the right wing of the theatre at the end of the wing.
You are correct. While I don’t remember it in the Madison (I was too young) I do remember it in the Ridgewood. They were probably called trailer curtain because the thin ones went back and forth before and after the trailers.
Yes the Ridgewood did and also the Madison. I believe they were called trailer curtains.
I agree with you Robert. They do have attractive “curtain” walls in this one I think, and even “sconces” on the walls, so it’s almost like old time theaters, except, no more screen curtains.
I think the Zeigfeld in Manhattan still does that, and I think the late Trylon did too, but not many left still have curtains.
I think some theaters like the Ridgewood used to have two sets of curtains, a thick one, and a thin one.