Regal Battery Park Stadium 11
102 N. End Avenue,
New York,
NY
10282
102 N. End Avenue,
New York,
NY
10282
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Uhh… Yeah, I agree with JCPockets. Maybe everyone writing the review lives on the UES or UWS? I mean, you can either the local 1-9 or the express 2-3 to chambers, and anyone who thinks that is a long walk should maybe stop eating tubs of butter covered popcorn? This is a fine theatre which is clean and uncrowded (which should be a plus for you cinefiliac movie-goers!) Also, wtf is the big deal about escalators? I mean, jesus, this is a city… Pffft, why don’t you move Los Angeles or something? I live in the financial district East of West St (aka, the end of the west side highway) and I love the fact that this theatre is here… Sure, if you live in Chelsea or the UES, UWS or midtown then there are decent theatre’s around and there is no reason to come here. But if you’re in the area for whatever reason (work, live, social event) this is a great theatre—no matter what these underly-pompous detractors have to say.
What a bunch of whingers! The Battery Park City Stadium is a wonderful theatre and yes, for those people who obviously don’t move far outside their shells, it does do business on the weekends. I first discovered it prior to the 9/11 attack while it was still a 16-screen arena. At that time it was still new and most people did not know it existed. When it reopened mid-2002, I was very happy. No, it does not get the packed and pushy crowds of some of the other theatres in Manhattan but somehow I don’t find that to be a bad thing. I’ve always found the staff to be friendly and helpful. The concession stand is a little slow but, since that seems to be the norm at theatres in this area, the workers are comparatively quicker than at other places. And, while it is kid- and family- friendly, there are no children running wildly around or disrupting a movie. As for it being located out in a tundra somewhere: Hello, it’s right off the Financial area. It’s accessable from the A,C, and E trains to name a few, PATH and, oh yes, the NY Waterway. For those of us who work down here, it’s the perfect spot for an after work movie.
I suggest, if you haven’t yet, come to the Battery Park Stadium cinema. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
I may actually make the trek down here this weekend. I am caught up on my first-run films so I may attempt to check out Star Wars. This is no doubt a good weekend to stay clear of the multi-plexes screening STAR WARS VI or whatever it is called. I’d like to see if this ‘plex can draw anyone for a tent-pole movie such as this.
While I down here for the Tribeca Film Fest I thought I saw the Regal folks manning a table hyping their “buyer’s program” where you get a credit card you can use each time you see a movie and receive points that can be redeemed for a free screening. I know the Regal ‘plex at 14th Street isn’t involved in this program as far as I know. I do use the program at the Regal 'plex in Astoria.
Those incentives theatres give are rare in Manhattan. The only other one besides Regal’s BPC ‘plex is the similar program AMC has for its sole Manhattan theatre, the 25-cinema mega-plex on the deuce.
What a haul. I was down there for a screening on Friday and it is a bizarre theatre. You take I think three escalators to get to the two floors that still contain the screens. The first floor that had five theatres is now a shoe store or some sort of retail store. You pass by it on the way up to the theatres.
That said, while utilitarian, Regal BPC is a nice place to watch a film. Who knows how long it will be around.
Regal Cinemas thought (if one wants to attach the notion of ‘thinking’ to Regal’s development of the Battery Park Stadium) this part of town, as part of the dot-com boom in the ‘90s, was going to become a 24-hour (or, at the very worst 16- or 20-hour) hot spot, which maybe (and that’s a highly charitable 'maybe’) it would have gained some semblance of if 9/11 never happened. Things ‘might’ improve once (and here’s a bit more of that magic fairy dust) the WTC site is fully developed by 2010, but I can’t, in any form of logic, anticipate Regal holding on until then.
i’m going for a screening to this theatre, which may as well be in china, it’s so far west and i checked for directions. the only directions are via car! that’s absurd in NYC — subway and/or bus directions should always be given, with car route as an option… of course, if this theatre were actually near a subway, it might also help. sheesh! what were they thinking?
Someone should hip the “Village Voice” to the fact that this is no longer a 16-‘plex, but an 11-'plex and it has been for at least a year. The VV still lists this as an 16-plex.
The only time I have even been even near this theatre is for the annual Tribeca Fests and when I was there last year the five theatres had already been closed and it was a weird and gloomy experience riding those escalators up, up and up before reaching the floors with the screens.
One funny story I have was at the first Tribeca Film Fest for “The Stone Reader.” In the middle of the film the projectionist must have gotten reels mixed up because a reel or part of the film was dropped. The director, fortunately, was in the house and immediately races up the aisle and goes to the back of the theatre and starts banging on the window at the projection booth to get the projectionist’s attention. Needless to say, the problem was fixed.
Another ‘plex that seems to be located in the middle of nowhere is Loew’s W. 34th Street 'plex between Eighth & Ninth Avenues. And that Kip’s Bay 'plex on Second Avenue in the twenties is also off the beaten track.
I don’t know what the Regal people were thinking when they built a 16-screen ‘plex not only way downtown, but just about as far west as you can go. It is west of West Street.
I agree with the statements posted above. For some reason Regal has the smallest screens in proportion to auditorium size, especially when compared to Loew’s and AMC multiplexes in NYC. I’ve been here twice but will never return.
One of the more stunning NYC movie theatre developments (or non-developments) in recent years is that this theatre hasn’t closed yet. (‘If a cinema opens and no one goes to it, does it make a sound?’, he asks quasi-rhetorically… )
This type of building personifies why all the exhibitors went bankrupt. I can’t imagine anyone going here, other than people who live in Battery Park City, Tribeca and maybe some people who work downtown. And that population can’t support 16 screens and I doubt they can support 11. It is so far off the beaten track, a long walk from the nearest subway and the fact that you have to cross the West Street.
The only time I’ve been there is for the Tribeca Film Festival and last year they had closed the five theatres and it seemed you would take escalator after escalator before you got to the theatres.
What a weird location for a cinema.
I can’t imagine that this place does much business on the weekends. I could be wrong. I hope so because the place is actually very nice. Anyone know how it does?