AMC Kips Bay Theater Sets Closing Date, CEO Speaks Out Against NYU Langone – Variety

AMC Kips Bay Theater Sets Closing Date, CEO Speaks Out Against NYU Langone  Variety

AMC CEO Adam Aron has spoken out on the closure of New York City’s popular AMC Kips Bay 15 movie theater, which will shutter on Jan. 3. Aron wrote a letter to the Kips Bay community and addressed how the nearby hospital NYU Langone, which plans to grow its medical facility, has not engaged with […] New York's AMC Kips Bay movie theater will close on January 3, and AMC CEO Adam Aron is speaking out against NYU Langone from taking over the building AMC CEO Adam Aron has spoken out on the closure of New York City’s popular AMC Kips Bay 15 movie theater, which will shutter on Jan. 3. Aron wrote a letter to the Kips Bay community and addressed how the nearby hospital NYU Langone, which plans to grow its medical facility, has not engaged with any of AMC’s alternatives to share the space.

In addition to the 15-screen AMC theater, the building also houses a Fairway supermarket and bank, which are also expected to close. “Unfortunately, the decision to retain or end AMC’s tenure in Kips Bay is not ours to make. The nearby NYU Langone Health facility wants to expand, seems to be in the process of buying the building in which your (our) theatre now operates, and it wants us gone. In anticipation of