Cinemart Cinemas
106-03 Metropolitan Avenue,
Forest Hills,
NY
11375
106-03 Metropolitan Avenue,
Forest Hills,
NY
11375
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oh my god i posted the same comment 3 times
damn i just realized that i should get paid for this i’m advertising cinemart and theater cafe. hehe
damn i just realized that i should get paid for this i’m advertising cinemart and theater cafe. hehe
damn i just realized that i should get paid for this i’m advertising cinemart and theater cafe. hehe
you guys should start going to cinemart more often. the theater’s dead. i don’t get it. It’s a cool place and not only that but there’s theater cafe right next to it. It’s like a place were they serve pizza, sandwiches, wraps, crepes, salads, drinks and desserts. It’s preety cozy and a nice place to hang out before or after a movie. And they got some hot girls working over there.
so… “robertR” u quite sound like u owned the place in your comments. However i’m pretty sure that i remember u just being the manager, an eployee nothing more. By the way i think you were let go after the place turned into a multiplex. I’m not sure about that but i never saw you working there again
I’ve taken in my share of movies at the Cinemart, but , truth be told about the theater, the auditoriums are small and not very comfortable and the screen sizes lacking. It’s a drap little 5-screener that doesn’t book fare that is unique or different enough (like the Kew Gardens) to attract a crowd seeking an alternative to the standard studio fodder flooding the big screens at the newer stadium-style plexes.
Frankly, I visit this neighborhood now – usually with the kiddies in tow – more for Eddie’s ice cream than anything else.
Agreed and noted, Bway and Lost Memory. I, too, used to walk and (less frequently) take the subway from Ridgewood to Forest Hills and Rego Park to see movies at the Trylon, Continental, Forest Hills and Midway.
Saturday December 22nd 1984 I saw “Starman” at the Ridgewood Theater. The following Saturday, the 29th (record high of 70 degrees, with old snow still on the ground) I saw “Dune” at the Continental 1 or 2 (now the Brandon). The Saturday after that, the first of the new year, January 5, 1985 (back down to 20 degrees, without the wind chill) it was “2010” on the big screen of Continental 3.
Agreed. One thing to note though also is that a theater needs more than just the neighborhood people coming to it to survive. Atlas Park, and the Forest Hills theaters get a lot of outside activity. I myself used to take the subway from Ridgewood to Forest Hills to see movies at the Continental (Brandon) or Midway years back.
The above being the case, I suppose the Cinemart would have been even more endangered by the multiplex cinema once proposed for the southwest corner of Metropolitan Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, near where the Home Depot and Woodhaven Lanes are now.
I’m sorry to read this about the Cinemart being in danger from Atlas Park, Midway 9, and Brandon 1 and 2, especially considering the loss of the Forest Hills Cinema on Continental Avenue between Austin St. amd Queens Blvd. and Continental 3 (once the largest movie screen in Queens ?) on Austin west of Continental.
I wouldn’t have thought it, considering the distance between the Cinemart and Atlas Park, and Cinemart and Midway 9 and Brandon 1 and 2.
Whereas Midway 9 and Brandon 1 and 2 seems like “Forest Hills Movie Central” in a busy shopping + restaurant + transportation hub (express subway stop + LIRR ststion + bus stops and taxi stand), and Atlas Park is a new multiplex in a busy new shopping center, the Cinemart still seems like the neighborhood movie house, around the corner from quiet residential blocks, and across the street from the venerable and celebrated Eddie’s Sweet Shop.
To add…of course while I am sure the Cinemart felt a blow after the Atlas Terminal Theater opened, they also get a blow probably from the Forest Hills Theaters like the Midway 9, and the theater on Austin St that used to be called the Continental (I forgot what it’s called today).
We were all worried about the Ridgewood Theater in Ridgewood closing when the Atlas Park Terminal Theater in Glendale opened….but apparently, the Cinemart may fall first, a victim of the nearby Atlas Park 8
Was The Cinemart relegated to The Forbidden Zone by Drs. Zaius and Maximus, orang-utans emeritus ?
Thanks so much, Lost Memory, for those images of Metropolitan Avenue. I LOVE that part of Forest Hills, and was last there this past July 8, 2006 !
Re : October 1960 newspaper ad : I wonder how “The Foolish Virgin” was finally “penetrated” in this “penetrating” film.
I have been going to the cinemart since I was 15 (1975)and have seen many good movies there. Going there on the weekends was great , and you couldnt beat the price( 1.50).There is just something about sitting in a movie theater that you dont have with a home theater.They have a new movie theater in glendale and it is outstanding . The seating is very comfortable and spacious with plenty of parking right there. I reccomend it if you enjoy the movies as much as I do.
Good, insightful comments, Ed Solero. Thanks for posting them here.
Ditto, RobertR. I remember them as Sunn (two n’s) Classics. I was not aware that Grizzly Adams was one of their films (if they also had a hand in the network TV show of the same name, then surely it was their biggest moneymaking franchise), but I do recall the quasi-documentaries “In Search of Noah’s Ark” and “In Search of Historic Jesus”… which leads me to wonder if they were behind the TV series “In Search Of…” that Leonard Nimoy hosted in the late ‘70’s. Another title that comes to mind was the low-rent “Hangar 18” which was advertised as a startling and revelatory documentary but turned out to be a cheesy sci-fi flick starring Gary Collins, of all people!
It seemed like Sunn Classics had a feature or two out in theaters just about every summer in the mid-to-late ‘70’s. Clunkers to be sure, but I’d take any one of those inept low budget turkeys today over the technically competent but formulaic fodder that is foisted upon us these days.
Thanks, RobertR.
Remember Sun Classics? They would 4 wall the theatres and do massive non-stop advertising. Most of the theatres were independents but I see a few UA’s in this ad. We played all of these because we always got at least a break even house allowance and did incredible on concessions.
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Yes, PaulNoble, I remember Eddie’s Sweet Shop very well. I last ate there August 2005, before seeing the Tom Cruise “War Of The Worlds” at the CineMart. I had a discussion with the owner / manager about how much better he was doing than Jahn’s in Richmond Hill.
NativeForestHiller, you’re probably right about Eddie’s Sweet Shop.
This film had been out of circulation for many years until its 1973 re-release
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I haven’t taken that route to Jahn’s, but ate there in 1999 and March 2006. Although unofficial, that is a landmark within itself which might be included in the potential Richmond Hill historic district, if the LPC acts soon. After attending movies at the Cinemart, frequenting Eddie’s Sweet Shop is a treat! I believe it’s been in existence since 1909, and it has a completely intact interior with marble, stools, a mosaic inlaid floor, great woodwork, and an ornate tin ceiling. I would say the only modern addition is a TV.
Remember Eddie’s Sweet Shop for great ice cream a few steps from the Cinemart!