AMC Fresh Meadows 7
190-02 Horace Harding Boulevard,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
190-02 Horace Harding Boulevard,
Fresh Meadows,
NY
11365
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I was here yesterday to see “The Three Stooges” and it was shown in auditorium 2. The sign says the theater can hold no more than 250 people which is I believe the seating listed in someone else’s comment from 2009. It looked smaller to me despite what the sign said so I counted and came up with 185 seats. It’s weird too how they have 2 seats in one corner in the back and I believe 1 each by themselves in the back for the middle section and the left side of the theater.
There again today, still no escalators or elevators fixed. A woman over 60 with a walker struggled for about 10 minutes to get down to the lower level of the theater, holding on to the handrails. Nice to see also that a few bathroom stalls are not in service either.
What’s happening here? Both the escalor to theaters 5, 6 & 7 has been out for a few weeks and so has the elevator. I have bad knees and find it a struggle walking up. And if you have to use the bathroom during the film it’s a horror scene for your knees with nothing working. In addition Friday they couldn’t seem to get any picture going. The sound was bad on “This Means War” and when the film shut down for a few seconds after first being loud then like a whisper one of the ushers announced all here would get free passes to another film, which we did. Question is when will the repairs get done.
Went there Friday to say Harold and Kumar and they are still only charging $3 extra for 3D as opposed to AMC’s Bay Terrace which is now charging $4, why is this???
The Bombay theater nearby is also playing “Ra One”.
I think this film is in 3D which the Bombay may not have been able to accommodate.
They are currently playing an Indian film here “Ra. One” or “Random Access One”. I wonder how the nearby Phoenix / Bombay theater feels about this.
Has anybody noticed how bad the projection system is getting here. When they show the early ads for products or that filler first look stuff shown before the ads the screen verges on badly faded color. It looks like public domain films of the 1950’s that no one cared for or like Kodacolor film over time. Sometimes it’s almost black and white and some other customers are complaining to one another.
I drove by here last night and the marquee looked like the last days of the old 42nd Street houses. Most of it was burned out and whoever put the titles up did not center anything and there were loads of empty gaps. I have not gone here in a few years but the last time I did it was shabby and run down.
I’m sure it isn’t a 35mm presentation. When I saw IAMMMMW a few years back at the Manhasset, it was a disappointing DVD projection. I wish more classics were made available via true digital presentation, if they’re going to do away with actual film projection. DVD resolution on a big screen is just so substandard.
Once again 1963’s “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is being shown here, Sunday May 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM.
Funny about that 1951 aerial view that Tinseltoes posted on Feb 1, 2011… realizing that when eminent domain was invoked to clear the way for the Long Island Expressway, none of the commercial lots lining the southern edge of Horace Harding Blvd were impacted, while the first two or three residential lots on each block along the northern edge were completely razed in the process. Also appears that the US Post Office that is adjacent to the Meadows was constructed some time after 1951.
Metro156… I think those James Bond films played Century houses right through the Roger Moore era. I recall seeing most of the Bond films from that era at the Century’s Green Acres Theatre in Valley Stream, NY. The Green Acres also got all the sensurround flicks – “Earthquake,” “Roller Coaster,” “Midway” and the “Battlestar Galactica.” Was it the same with the Meadows?
I saw all my James Bond movies here (always a double feature) with my older brother. Appears alot of others got their Bond here too.
My late father was a Manager of this theater in the late 1970’s. He was a veteran w/ Century, and retired in 1986. He was the substitute DM, and I remember travelling around with him inspecting the theaters all over NY and NJ. Ed Bernhardt and my dad were old friends, and to me, Mr. Bernhardt wads “Uncle Eddy” and was a dinner guest at our home many imes. I’ll be glad to answer any questions about Century history from the 1960’s to 1986, since I gre upgoing to work w/ my dsad during school vacations- my dad retired in 1986 from the Prospect Theater in Flushing-and that was when they closed it!Post your questions- I’ll be glad to reply!
Robert R.loved the" Pretty Maids all in a Row “ ad I have a nice one sheet on it. Not a bad flick.
I just opened the Bayside Times for the week of May 20 – 26 and on page 4 there is an article about Mr. Bernstein and why he is showing this film at this theater.
The Fresh Meadows 7 plex in Fresh Meadows, Queens is running a free showing Sunday of the 1963 film “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”. Apparently they also ran this film for free in November. These showings have been advertised in free local weeklies in Queens but are not shown on Fandango or Moviefone. They are also not listed in the papers though I believe the New York Post had a advertisment for it last year. I went to a film at the theater today and could not believe the film was up on the marquee with a May 23 date. I asked the manager about this and all he could tell me was that a Richard Bernstein rented the theater both times and it’s free for anyone to see. My question is who is Richard Bernstein and why does he do this.
In the Queens Tribune dated April 29, 2010 there is again an advertisement, this time for May 23 for a showing of 1963’s “It’s a Mad, Mad,Mad, Mad World” and it says seating is limited, only 145 spaces available. I wrote about this in November when they were supposedly running thia film for one showing and now it’s being advertised again. Does anybody know anything about this?
I was just there today for the first time. An OK theater. I’m shocked to see Cineplex Odeon signage.
Its alright Brain F.
It’s really been bothering me that in my post of Sept 26, 2006, I gave the wrong zip code for Fresh Meadows. It is actually 11365. I am so embarassed because i was trying to provide THE LAST WORD on the theatre’s address, and i said 11364 not once, but THREE TIMES! Will you all forgive me?
Ah, what a catharsis to finally confess my error!
Why are there advertisements in the New York Daily News and Post for a showing of 1963’s “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” showing Sunday at the Fresh Meadows multiplex at 1 pm. There are no listings for it on fandango.com. Did somebody rent out the theater for some reason?
Thanks Warren I did mean WWII. My skills need sharpening I keep erasing things. And on the subject of post WWII theatres, the only one built, other than in conjuction with the Roosevelt Field and Green Acres shopping centers, was the Shore in Huntington. All four were Century.
When Century’s Meadows opened it was a big deal. There had been no theatres built since WWI particularly one that seated 2,200. Would you believe I remember the original phone number AXtel 7-2700. The opening was really something with a number of Hollywood stars in attendance, I remember seeing the newsreel of the event at a local Century theatre. I believe one of the celebs was Linda Darnell.
I remember the weekly Century theatre guide mailed so my home had the image of a pair of binoculars with the caption “Watch for Century’s Meadows”.
From 1967-1971 I attended the Delehanty High School; 93-01 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432, 112 feet from the Valencia in Jamaica. By that time, Jamaica was a pretty awful place to walk around or to shop. If you could park, it was a couple of blocks away at a municipal parking lot just north and east of Merrick Road and Jamaica Avenue. By the late 60’s, early 70’s, it was not someplace that parents sent their kids to for entertainment on a Saturday afternoon. The clean, sfae, “new”, modern Meadows was within bicycle range of home (which was Bellaire (now Queens Village)) in a perfectly safe neighborhood… and later, when I started driving, it had it’s own safe, free parking. There were also options for after-cinema burgers, etc. by the Meadows. In the early 70’s, no one in their right mind would be caught in Jamaica after sundown.