Surfside Twins
103-22 Rockaway Beach Boulevard,
Rockaway Park,
NY
11693
103-22 Rockaway Beach Boulevard,
Rockaway Park,
NY
11693
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Please update, total capacity 475 Theatre 1 275 Theatre 2 200 (build next to original screen) Location never split Source: DOB records and I use to go this theatre years ago, sorry never took any photos
Please update, it was twin on August 14, 1981
Please update, theatre closed September 3, 1996.
The owner of the Grand Ave cinemas also operates various theaters on Long Island and in Queens
I think he also operates the Grand Avenue Cinemas in Baldwin, (Long Island) NY but I couldn’t swear to it…
Just to let you know, Harvey Elgart was the owner of the movie theatre and he also own At the time of closing, he was operating the Cobble Hills Cinemas. He eventually open the Kew Gardens Theatre and Williamsburgh Cinemas
The theatre closed labor day weekend in 1996. Don’t have exact date, their last features was A Very Brady Sequel and Carpool
Correction, the theatre was a single screen. They build an aother auditorium next to the original in the early 1980’s. It closed in the late 1990s. Please update it open in the early 1970s as a single theatre. An added auditorium to make it 2 in the early 1980’s.
Theatre 1, the original was fairly good in the 1980’s. It had Dolby Stereo and theatre 2 was MONO. The current owner Harvey Elgart that owns Kew Gardens and Cobble Hill, the last owners of the Surfside Twin Cinema.
The theatre was business wasn’t good in the late 1990’s when they had competition form the Kings Plaza Cinemas 6 and UA The Movies at Sheepshead Bay 9.
I went their when I was a teenager and lived in the Rockaways for most of my life before leaving in 2013.
I have a poor photo of it from late 1997 and it was out of business at that time.
The Jerry Lewis Theater was located at 103-22 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Rockaway Beach, NY 11693. It rented a corner store front in a new mini mall. However, it only lasted a very short time when the “Surfside Twin” opened up and took over operations. Today the theaters are long gone. (Note: The above location map is incorrect)
Still suprises me it closed with ZERO competition
The Surfside was located in a modern strip-mall of stores which still stand.
Being the only theatre on the peninsula, I thought this place would have thrived.
As a little kid in the early 1980’s, me and my mom would take the A train out to see our relatives, who at the time lived in the Ocean Village houses at Beach 60th Street/Beach Channel Drive in Arverne-Rockaway Queens. Then when we got there Me, mom and all of the relatives would pile on the bus and go to see a movie at the Surfside Twin.Rockaway at that time still had an amusement park, shortly after crack burst upon the scene,that amusement park closed, the whole peninusla of Rockaway went on downward crime-driven spiral.