AMC 84th Street 6
2310 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10024
2310 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10024
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What a mess this place is! Attended a screening there yesterday! The place stunk, a lousy moldy damp smell. There was no AC in theatre 6, but the hall way was nice and cool. The picture was out of focus, and even though I told a seeminly brain damaged usher twice about it, nothing was done! Last time I go there.
The DLP system in in theatre #2.
The Arthur Marks plaque was not misplaced, it was given to his family after the column it was mounted was damaged and and re-done.
The lettered auditoriums was an internal designation only, they had no letter or number for the public to see.
The unusable seats were intentional – the old seats were smaller, therefore there were more of them. They did not want distributors to know that they had lost so many seats with the re-seating, so we ended up with the seats behind the curtains and seats too far forward in the center section. After a while we cannibalized those unusable seats for parts to make repairs to the usable ones.
I worked there for a few months. Although high-grossing, the theatre was not architecturally interesting.
Sony Theatres made a big deal about placing a plaque in the lobby in memory of the theatre’s longtime Managing Director, the late Arthur Marks. When the lobby was remodeled, the plaque was misplaced. Some took this as a sign that the Loews Cineplex management did not care as much about the contributions of their theatre managers as the Sony Theatres management had.
The auditoriums were known by letters instead of numbers until after the most recent remodeling.
When the new seats were installed, the drapes in the auditoriums were pulled up to keep them out of the way of the workers. When the drapes were lowered, they discovered that each auditorium had seats facing the drapes and four auditoriums have seats actually located behind the drapes!
Does anyone know which screen is Dolby Digtal Cinema for 3D movies
The new digital sign (installed 2/2005) on the marquee can be seen here: View link
From Loew’s 1983 annual report:
“The program of building large multiple auditorium theatres, equipped with state-of- the-art sound and projection systems and comfortable push back seats, will continue at an accelerated pace in 1984. Construction of a luxury six auditorium theatre at Eighty-fourth Street and Broadway in Manhattan is scheduled to open [sic] in December.
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"In all, forty-eight new screens are anticipated for operation by the end of 1984, the most ambitious single-year building program in the [Theatre] Division’s history. All will be the comfortable, luxury theatres for which the company is noted.”
I have only been to the Loews 84th Street ‘plex twice to see “The Pope Must Die(t)” and Ollie Stone’s “Heaven and Earth” so I haven’t been there in quite a while, 10 years.
I know the good folks on the Upper West Side were up in arms when they perceived that the Loews moved its higher brow fare down the block at the newer Lincoln Square ‘plex and were booking low brow fare at the 84th Street 'plex and attracting an audience who didn’t live in the neighborhood. Loews denied it, but…
Lincoln is half the age, and was not originally built “on-the-cheap”, as was 84th Street. Also, with Lincoln being the flagship house combined with the volume of business generated, it receives a little extra TLC than most of the other theatres.
It IS showing its age a bit – it doesn’t take long for movie theatres in NYC to develop at least a bit of that down-on-its-heels appearance – but the Loews Lincoln Square still is one of the best multiplexes, if not THE best multiplex, in the five boroughs. I’ve never really heard much about the Loews 84th Street, though, one way or another, which suggests it’s a decent (but not much more) place to catch a flick. Any thoughts/opinions?
I’d guess via a prerecorded CD, tmq840. I’ve heard something similar at the nine-screen Clearview in Chelsea, with music and DJ announcements from WCBS-FM – relatively subtle, but yet another example of commercialization at the movies…
no, you’re thiinking of Loews Lincoln Ssuare at 68th & Broadway.
Is this the multiplex where the indoor space is decorated with faux movie palace decor, and each auditorium has a generic movie palace name like “Oriental”, “Paradise”, etc.? If so — and if memory serves me correctly — at least one of the auditoriums has a real balcony. I’m absolutely no fan of modern multiplexes, but I have to concede that I found it to be a very comfortable space.
I think it can be generally said that the experience of viewing a film in a multiplex that was conceived and built as a multiplex is way different — and far superior — to trying to enjoy a film in a shoebox that was created by carving up a movie palace. (Well, I guess that’s a no-brainer, isn’t it?) <lol>
The theatre complex is 5 blocks north from my sister’s apartment on the westside. I have been there a few times. I have seen movies in the theatre’s lower level auditoriums, but never in the upper level.
The first time I went there, they played music before the show. But in between the music, announcers from LITE FM 106.7 told the audience to tune to their station. How was the music piped in?