South Bay Cinemas
495 Montauk Highway,
West Babylon,
NY
11704
495 Montauk Highway,
West Babylon,
NY
11704
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Additional Info
Architects: Leon A. Miller
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: South Bay Trio, South Bay Quad
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News About This Theater
- Apr 5, 2006 — Long Island Theater To Bring Back 70mm
The South Bay is a free-standing building within the shopping center it is located in. It was opened by Imperial Theatres on June 28, 1967 with John Wayne in “El Dorado”. It had at least 1,000-seats. On May 21, 1975 it became the South Bay Trio. On November 30, 1990 it became a quad. It expanded to 5-screens on November 15, 1991 and had a 550-seat capacity. It was closed in November 2016 for renovation. A reopening was planned for June 16, 2023, but the building didn’t pass safety checks and a reopening was deferred until fall of 2023.
It reopened on July 26, 2024 with all 441 luxury recliner seating, an all-new interior, food items plus beer & wine and an all-new party rental program.
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Recent comments (view all 166 comments)
At the rate this is going, the theatre will reopen one month before the lease ends.
Standard sized doors are now labeled as emergency exits. There is also a green light above each. The one for Theatre One faces the parking lot and is at the eastern corner of the building. Three more doors are on the eastern wall of the theatre about 12 feet from the parking lot and are almost adjacent to each other. ??? I presume the doors on the building facing Montauk Highway, which are not labelled, will service all five auditoriums.
The three doors on the eastern wall, from the parking lot, are 2,5,4.
It looks like the theater reopening today. Robboehm could you verify. Found showtimes on there facebook page. photo in photos section
ridethetrain - saw the same information as you. Phone isn’t working for additional confirmation. I don’t actually live in the area, and will not be passing through for a couple of weeks, so I can’t physically confirm at this time. Never thought it would happen. Closed since 2016. Wonder if people will even go at this point with so many changes in viewing habits due to the closing of so many theatres.
Saw someone I follow on Twitter has posted that the theater is for sure open with pictures. It can be officially confirmed as reopened if it wasn’t already.
It definitely opened, first day of operation, please not reopened on July 26, 2024
https://greaterlongisland.com/showtime-south-bay-cinemas-reopens-in-west-babylon/
Please update, total seats 441
Theatre 1 80
Theatre 2 85
Theatre 3 30
Theatre 4 158
Theatre 5 88
When it opened in 1967 seating was at least 1,000. When I was there in 2005-2012 the seating was 420 in theatre 5, theatre in the backstage was 350 when it was a Trio and then 170 when it was split in half with 175 in each one when it was a quad. Along the side of theatre 5 was a narrow theatre which had 230 seats as a trio and this was split to make it a five-plex with one theatre 150 seats and the other 60 seats directly behind the 150 seats. The theatre numbers also changed to #1 & #2 (backstage), theatre #3 and #5 were the narrow theatre along side #4. The large theatre remained at 420 and became theatre #4. The theatre was very busy after the Lindenhurst closed and then busier when Babylon closed. Weeekends especially Friday, with the horror movies were always sellouts in #4 with shows cancelled in either #1 or # for the over flow from #4. It was basically a Disney and Horror house, the bread and butter always playing in theatre #4. All seats were $5. before 6 P.M. is the reason of its success! Theatres today are very small with the average screen at 100 seats. At $20. a ticket, you have sell a lot of tickets in these modern theatres. I wish them good luck!