Regal UA Midway
108-22 Queens Boulevard,
Forest Hills,
NY
11375
108-22 Queens Boulevard,
Forest Hills,
NY
11375
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Located in the Forest Hills section of Queens. The RKO Midway Theatre (named for the famous Battle of Midway) was opened on September 24, 1942 with Monty Woolley in “The Pied Piper” and Lloyd Nolan in “Just Off Broadway”. It had a seating capacity for 2,002 in orchestra and balcony levels and was designed by Thomas W. Lamb Associates, which included S. Charles Lee. In the summer of 1977 United Artists converted it into a quad. It was sold as single screen theatre in June 1997 to the Heskel Group. The total purchase price, which included the nearby Forest Hills Theatre, was $9 million.
The theater was closed two months later and completely renovated into a nine-screen multiplex with 1,931-seats. Following a year of construction, the Midway Theatre reopened as the UA Midway 9 on November 20, 1998 and is now one of Queens' best performing movie theaters.
Sadly, the theatre’s original interior appearance was mostly lost during the conversion, but its exterior remains a familiar Queens Boulevard landmark.
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Please update the history: Please correct, in the summer of 1977 United Artists made it a quad(2 downstaris and 2 upstairs split down the middle), on November 20, 1998 it became 9 screens (4 downstairs and 5 upstairs).
This was 4 screens from 1977 to 1996, like the other UA complexe like the Quad, Lynbrook and Marboro.
“Open” statistics claim 9 screens and 584 seats. Could that be correct? That would mean an average of about 65 seats per screen.
@Confortably Cool
Yes, with recliners that sounds about right.
The seating capacity are: 1. 69 2. 78 3. 90 4. 67 Theatres 1 to 4 are on the main floor 5. 78 6. 48 7. 48 8. 39 9. 70 Theatres 5 to 9 are on the second floor (theatres 5 and 9 are the old balcony)
Seating is recliners.
I had posted a few photos a couple of years ago of the theatre when it was with the UA Midway prior to the renovation and a preview seats of the new recliners. Haven’t been there since 2017 when I use to live in Forest Hills.
I don’t know how you make money with 585 seats. Seems crazy to me
Well, with weekday matinee prices starting at $11.55 and evening adult prices at $15.50 (for Queens Boulevard!) you don’t need to fill many seats to fill the till…
To say nothing of the overpriced snacks.
Do they have RPG or 3D showings so they can jack up prices?
RealD 3D in screens 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. But Regal shows less 3D shows then they use to. Also, they compete with the Cinemart Cinemas and AMC Fresh Meadows that has recliners.
Remember, a few years ago, The Midway, Cinemart and Kew Gardens play the same films now.
Also, the big money making theatres Union Square and Sheepshead Bay won’t get recliners anytime soon.