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But what a difference a year makes.
Formerly sticky-floored wastelands have been made over with panoramic screens, dumbwaiter food service, and Scandinavian seating.
There are reclining chairs?
The Coming-Soons
Highlights of the newfangled theaters opening around the city in some extremely screen-deprived neighborhoods.
Alamos expansion continues with a Fidi location (28 Liberty Street), set to open in 2019.
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iPic Fulton Market Cinema11 Fulton St.
Still, Grub Streets Nikita Richardson dubbed the food pretty highbrow.
She particularly liked the Angus sliders ($19) and the chicken Caesar salad ($16).
Orders are taken 30 minutes before each showing, and food is served just as the previews start.
Plus: After 6 p.m., the entire theater is over-21 only.
The DesignThe chairs hit that sweet spot between leather recliners and basic folding seats.
The Bona FidesSkeies seats are used in movie theaters all over the world even in a planetarium in Malta.
It Was Like Being Chased by a Homicidal Nun.
In September,ScreenX a 270-degree panoramic theater experience debuted in New York at Regal Union Square Stadium 14.
ScreenX is supposed to be this super-cinematic, immersive way of watching a movie.
Theres the normal one in the front plus one on each side wall.
Immediately after the movie started, I realized there was a problem with retrofitting ScreenX to a preexisting theater.
There are things on the walls, behind the screen like emergency-exit signs that interrupt your experience.
While thats happening, the side walls suddenly were filled with this footage of the forest.
And Why Has No One Replaced This Gem on Canal Street?
Developers have tried to buy it from me over the years so they could tear it down.
But I dont need the money, so Ive held on to it.
We were exonerated in 2015, but we spent a long time fighting that senseless case.
But I doubted the economic feasibility of their plan.
I have a moral obligation not to destroy the space to do something meaningful with it.
