Kips Bay AMC breaks silence on NYU Langone property drama, insists we want to stay

The show isn’t over.The Kips Bay AMC broke its silence after weeks of drama with NYU Langone, insisting the theater “wants to stay” at its longtime Manhattan home — but it is being pushed out to make way for the medical university.The Second Avenue cinema claimed NYU Langone is simply acting the part of the savior after the healthcare behemoth publicly declared that AMC had been trying to leave for years.“To be clear, we want to stay.Under the terms of our current lease, the theatre is operating successfully, and we would like to continue serving moviegoers for years to come.

We believe keeping this theatre open would be the best outcome for our guests and for the Kips Bay community,” Ryan Noonan, a spokesperson for AMC Theatres, said in a statement.“The decision about whether AMC can continue operating at Kips Bay is ultimately not ours to make.While the landlord has exercised its contractual right to terminate the lease, and we must prepare accordingly, the theatre remains open and operating as usual.”The movie giant said it was “incredibly grateful” for the support from elected officials and moviegoers — thousands of whom signed a petition demanding the AMC remain at the site — and that showtimes would continue through Jan.

3, 2027.The statement is the first time AMC has addressed the ongoing saga, other than its initial notice in the spring confirming the closure “following the property owner’s decision to exercise its contractual right to terminate the theatre’s lease before its scheduled expiration.”It comes just one day after NYU Langone argued to The Post that the soon-to-be-shuttered cinema had already been considering dropping the curtain on itself years before NYU Langone set its sights on the property.NYU Langone claimed that the consortium of owners of the Second Avenue property in Manhattan sought out the medical university to take over the site.“Years before our involvement, AMC expressed interest in leaving,” sa...