CMX New York East 62nd Street
400 E. 62nd Street,
New York,
NY
10021
400 E. 62nd Street,
New York,
NY
10021
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Additional Info
Operated by: CMX Cinemas
Previously operated by: Bow-Tie Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon, Clearview Cinemas, CMX Cinemas
Functions: Storage
Previous Names: Cineplex Odeon First & 62nd Cinemas, Clearview's First & 62nd Cinemas
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Dismissed by locals from the day it opened on November 27, 1991, this multi-level 6-screen multiplex survived many years while many other Upper East Side theatres continued to close. Built by Cineplex Odeon as the long delayed replacement for the highly sought after Baronet & Coronet property, the site never gained the clout it needed and the Baronet & Coronet lasted longer as a result. It opened as a sixplex, and later a seventh screen was added in a vacant storefront on the ground floor, giving a total of 1,931-seats.
A Garth Drabinsky faux marble plex with good sound, smallish screens, and a victim of that unique Manhattan crime of being one block too far.
A battle with the city over the escalator caused several aborted openings. The seventh screen apparently came and went.
In May 2013, Clearview Cinemas were sold to Bow Tie Theatres, but this movie theatre closed in June 2013. In 2015 a section of the building was in use as a storage facility. In November 2016 it was taken over by Mexico City based Cinemex and renovation began. It reopened as the CMX Cinemas New York 62nd Street on October 18, 2018.
This theatre is another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was shut down permanently on March 17, 2020. The building has been gutted. In March 2023 it was announced that the former theatre would become a self-storage facility.
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Al Alvarez
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Recent comments (view all 61 comments)
Not to go too far off-topic, Al, but I remember the Manhattan Twin’s era of screening primarily genre films and move-overs. Was it considered a less-than-ideal theatre in general?
At least during the midweek it $17.
Opened(on different screens) with “Mobsters”, “Another you”, “My girl” and “Star Trek VI the undiscovered country”.
Is the name CMX short for anything?
did not take long to find the answer to what CMX stands for by googling CMX cinemas- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinemex
The theater was removed from the cmx website
Please update, total seats 311 from the last renovation.
theatre closed March 17, 2020 when the city ordered theatres shutdown. When CMX went into chapter 11, they won’t be opening this location.
It’s very sad they didn’t make it at this location, was in Florida at their first CMX dine in location, food was excellent, a little pricey and the bargain matinee only $9. for a movie
Now slated to become even more Manhattan Mini-Self Storage: https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/shuttered-ues-cinema-become-even-more-self-storage