City Cinemas Cinema 1, 2, and 3

1001 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Opened 1962
700 + 291 seats

This modernist theatre designed by Architect Abraham W. Geller was the first commercially-viable twin-screen cinema in the US and originally operated as two separate theatres. A renovation in 1988 subdivided the larger upper space to create a third 165-seat theatre and combined the entrances and lobbies to function as a more conventional triplex. (reference)

3/13/2008 03:16 PM