Grand Avenue Cinemas
1841 Grand Avenue,
Baldwin,
NY
11510
1841 Grand Avenue,
Baldwin,
NY
11510
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This location had the tightest movie seats in town
So sad one of the last of the old pre-multiplex Long Island theaters
Now home to a location of the Grand 99¢ Plus retail chain.
As tiny as the auditoriums were here they were always immaculate and well maintained.
Please update, twin on June 24, 1983 and a fiveplex on February 19, 1999. No grand opening ad for the twin, but uploaded display ad
5 screens on February 19th, 1999. Grand opening ad posted.
When did Manhasset reopen, don’t see a website at robboehm. It hard keeping up with some theatres, showtimes not on fandango and newspapers don’t put showclocks in. does Manhasset have a website.
ridethetrain of the “open” theatres you mentioned only the Bellmore Playhouse is. The only other “indie” I found to be open in Nassau County is the Manhasset. The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center is just opening for selected films but not yet for live entertainment.
Please update, Grand Avenue has been closed since March 2020 when covid-19 started. Their a handful of indie screens in Nassau/Suffolk that hasn’t open yet. As of today, out of 20 independent theatres in Long Island that hasn’t open. Only Malverne, Bellmore Movie, Bellmore Playhouse and PJ Cinemas are the only indies that reopen.
Another one bites the dust. Photos added.
Please update, GG Theatres made it a twin theatre in the fall of 1983. Clearview Cinemas bought the GG Theatres chain in 1996. In the winter of 1999, it open as a Five plex. Next to the address, it should read 5 screens.
PLEASE ADD To description, this was a GG Theatres for most of theatres life. Clearview Cinemas bought GG Theatres in the mid 90’s.
Just uploaded photos taken between 2004 and 2010 of the Grand Avenue Cinemas. I was last there in 2010 when it was Clearview CInemas. Bow Tie Cinemas never went to digital projection and it now independent. The new owners don’t have a website.
Please note the photos are screen numbers when it was Clearview Cinemas. Based on a photo I saw on Google, the new owners renumbered the screens. Theatre 5 is now Theatre 2 and Theatre 4 is now Theatre 3.
PLEASE UPDATE, THE THEATRE OPEN ON OCTOBER 3, 1965. I follow person updated the grand opening ad
Mark P: Bowtie Sold the Bala and Anthony Wayne to the the the owner of the Roxy in Narbeth Pa.
Luckily the Grand Avenue and the Middlebrook Galleria were quickly reopened under new local (Grand Ave) and international (Middlebrook) independent owners.
Didnt Bow Tie drop the 2 in Pennsylvania? The Bala and Anthony Wayne? Or were they dumped by cablevision?
Grand Avenue, Babylon, Middlebrook Galleria, and…?
Bow Tie did not take over all the Clearview locations. The Grand Avenue must be at least the fourth they’ve dropped, most recently the Babylon. This one has life after Bow Tie.
Well, a couple of years ago Bow Tie took over this house from Clearview, and just a few weeks ago Bow Tie closed it.
But it just reopened under the auspices of the owners of several independent multiplexes, namely the Kew Gardens Cinemas, Cobble Hill Cinemas and Williamsburg Cinemas. (According to the box office cashier, anyway.)
They have a facebook page as the first step in promoting this place.
Good luck! Glad to see it open again.
They recently added a nice new marquee out front on Grand Avenue, so people driving by will actually know there’s a theater there. Ed? We’re waiting…
well those theatres are teeny. When it was a single screen I saw “Patton” and in 1969 an end of run engagement of “Star!”
The Seating capacities are;
1. 46 SMART
2. 78 SMART
3, 89 SMART
4. 118 dts/DS
5. 123 dts/SMART
Exept for Screen 1, the seats are tight. They need to put new seats like Port Washington and the Chelsea Cinemas have
Grand Avenue usually plays 20th Century Fox and New Line like Lynbrook does and some Dreamworks and Disney. Rockville Centre and the Fantasy usually get films from Paramount, Universal and Warner Brothers and some Dreamworks and Disney films.
Grand Avenue could show the same films with the Regal Lynbrook Sixplex.
Did I leave LI? Oh, yeah. I’m in Northern NJ now. Work in NYC right in Times Square so I get to walk around and see where all these theaters on this site used to be or are for maybe a little while longer.
I really hate LI now but like a lapsed Catholic, it’s like once you’re a Long Islander, you never get it out of your system. I can close my eyes and see how things used to be out there: the last few farms out on Route 110 and the other one on the north side of the LIE just west of 110. Now I understand that they’re all megaplexes now. How ironic. And where I am now just doesn’t seem to have all the theaters that LI had. Most of them are gone.
So many of my memories of LI are based on movie theaters and movie going that it’s weird
I remember how my Dad reflexivly used to turn his head while driving on Merrick Road past the Fantasy to see what was playing. It had a high marquee. Or the funky neon sign for the Grand Ave that (I think) is still there. It had these “moving” arrows" the flashed toward the theater. Seeing “Carrie” at the Grand Ave and my older brother screaming his head off when Carrie’s hand comes up from her grave. Schlepping out to Hicksville to see “Star Wars” at the Mid Island Plaza South (THE best place to see event films…) and being nearly the first on line and marvelling as the line got bigger and bigger and bigger to the point where you couldn’t see where it ended. There were big, lovely theaters on LI that were a thrill to watch a movie at: The Lynbrook, Green Acres, The Fantasy and then those wonderful, well maintained cute-as-hell neighborhood theaters that I remember more fondly than some of the big ones. The one on Wantagh Ave was a great neighborhood theater. Even the Grand Ave was OK when it was a single screener.
Sorry about the rant…I’m in a nostalgic mood today. Maybe it’s the holidays….