Quad Cinema

34 West 13th Street | also 30 West 13th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1900

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1972
October 18
Maurice Kanbar opens New York City's first four-screen multiplex
Inventor and real estate investor Maurice Kanbar bought a six-story loft on West 13th Street intending an off-Broadway theater, but those plans fell through and left him with a large stretch of empty ground floor. He bet that several small auditoriums could pay off even with modest crowds, and with his younger brother Elliott S. Kanbar opened the four-screen Quad Cinema in October 1972. It was the city's first four-screen movie theater.
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1988
Elliott Kanbar turns the Quad toward foreign and independent film
Elliott Kanbar took over the Quad's operations in 1988. With new theaters opening in Lower Manhattan, the Quad turned to foreign and independent films, which paid off financially but pitted it against art-house rivals such as Film Forum and the IFC Center. Elliott Kanbar later recalled that Andy Warhol had been a regular at the theater in its earlier years, bringing his fans with him.
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2015
May
Cohen Media Group closes the Quad for a multimillion-dollar renovation
Charles S. Cohen's Cohen Media Group bought the Quad Cinema, with the sale reported in August 2014 along with plans for renovation. The theater closed in May 2015 for the multimillion-dollar overhaul and reopened on April 14, 2017 with a retrospective of director Lina Wertmuller. Landmark took over booking for the Quad once Cohen acquired Landmark Theatres in December 2018.
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