Regal Battery Park
102 N. End Avenue,
New York,
NY
10282
102 N. End Avenue,
New York,
NY
10282
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Besides downsizing, they (and the mall) also received massive federal funds after 9/11 to help bring business traffic back to Ground Zero. This location may have survived because of that tragic event.
Please rename Regal Battery Park as per website
To be honest, though, they did lose a bunch of screens so it’s not exactly the same house that opened.
BenPaz- Truly fascinating since many of the new builds don’t make it past twenty years.
It’s fascinating seeing the early comments on this theater about how it was for sure going to be closed by the end of the 2000s and now it’s entering its 26th year of operation.
It’s Regal after they install the recliners
So does it operate as UA or Regal ? I Know they are both Regal entertainment
20 years ago today this cinema was badly damaged during the 9/11 attacks. It took time for the cinema to reopen and soon became the most famous 9/11 cinema ever.
Please update, on August 8, 2003 UA gave back Level 1 (Screens 1-5) back to the landlord, bringing the screen count down to 11
Please update the description, it open as Regal Cinemas in 2000. It was the 3rd theatre to enter the New York Market. A couple a years later, prior to them merging with UA, UA took control sometime in 2001.
The theatre box office was relocated to level 1 of the movie theatre. The original marquee is no longer their and the orignal box office was sold to the Hotel Conrad. I posted photos of the theatre taken in 2003 and the present. The theatre now has recliners and the business is up on the weekend now.
The theatre capacity based on fandango.com (not including wheelchair spots) Level 1 (at one time Level 2 6-10) 1. 74 2. 60 3. 75 4. 123 5. 215
Level 2 (at one time Level 3 11-16) 6. 70 7. 57 8. 64 9. 73 10. 124 11. 220
Regal doses not offer RPX at this location. They probadly didn’t install it due to low attendance. Regal does not offer expanded concessions at this site.
The installation of recliners is posted on the Regal wed site. I posted this the other day but it seems to have disappeared. But we still have postings from hdtv267.
This theater now has reserved seating and will soon get king sized recliners in every screen.
Exterior and lobby photos from July 2015.
Does anyone know of a theater operating in this neighborhood before the construction of the World Trade Center? The theater would have opened in 1927 at the southwest corner of Cortlandt and West Streets. The project was mentioned in the July 13, 1927, issue of The Film Daily. If it did get built it might not have operated for very long.
On this day 10 years ago, this theater was severely damaged. It would take several months before the theater reopened.
They’re currently doing some sort of construction there: the bottom floors are closed and customers have to take a series of escalators to the third (or was it fourth?) floor to even reach a box office. The rest of the theater is blocked off with partitions. The entrance to the building itself is a bit hard to find; the outside is blocked off with Regal-marked wooden partitions that point in the general direction of the entrance but it’s easy to miss.
We went there on a Thursday evening and the place was dead; the staff didn’t even bother taking our tickets.
This theatre opened in July 2000, so the tenth anniversary was two months ago.
next year marks 10 years since this theater opened, and became the 9/11 theater due to its close proximity to the twin towers. In 2012 the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca film Festival will take place.
That’s exactly why I very seldom go anymore. As much as I love movies I just can’t tolerate the constant chatting…talking on cell phones…the incessant rustling of candy wrappers…and not to mention feet up on the seat right beside your head. And this rude behavior is not always limited to teens and young people either. Older people who should be familiar with theatre etiquette are sometimes just as rude.
GaryC. you got jerks in smaller cities too,one reason i never go to a film unless its 007 or Clint Eastwood and Uncle Clint is slowing down.
Very true Gary C.The theatres canot screen everyone who comes in their doors.
For years those of us who work in lower Manhattan had hoped for a movie theater to be built in this area. And this one filled the bill. I sometimes go there after work or take off a few hours early if there is something I really want to see. The first film I remember seeing there was Schwarzennegger in “The Sixth Day.” I have seen several films on their first day at this theater: last summer’s Star Trek, the last 3 Bond films, Superman Returns, etc. It is actually fairly impressive. After you buy your ticket, you take an escalator to the first floor. There are no theaters there, only an enormous shoe outlet. You then take an enormously long second escalator to the second level where half the theaters are. If you are unlucky, you have to take another long escalator to the rest of the theaters on the third level. This theater is so high up that the lobby and concessions stand area offers an impressive view of the West Side Highway.
As previously stated, when I go in the afternoon it is never super-crowded. I only had one bad experience there when some lowlives found their way to the theater I was in showing “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.” They had obviously came out of another theater and decided to make our lives miserable by talking and making noise at the top of their lungs. Fortunately these fools got bored and left after about ten minutes. I don’t blame this incident on the theater though. It could’ve happened in any theater in any large city in America.
I want to like this theater, but I just can’t. It’s too far.
Was there today to see the Woody Allen film ,rode up 3 flights on escalator to find it was 85 degrees and very humid in that particular theatre. Was informed A/C wasn’t working. Got a refund and will not be returning anytime soon. I have already called Regal and await a response.