UA Theater: Nightmare on Court Street

By on January 22, 2008 3:29 pm in Brooklyn Heights

From the BHB Inbox comes this dispatch from a reader:

My family of 4 have lived in Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill for 6 years now.  We’ve noticed a deterioration in quality of service and cleanliness at the UA Court Street Stadium 12 over the years (not that it was that nice to begin with).  My wife has come to a point where she wants to boycott the theatre as she thinks its “nasty”.  I’ve written Regal Cinemas customer care, have inquired whether the Brooklyn Heights Association has any type of agenda around the theatre and wanted to inquire via your blog whether anyone else has any ideas.  My theory around the theatre is as follows: from what I can observe, this theatre is likely incredibly profitable and conducting a renovation or even increasing the staff resources to keep it cleaner probably wouldn’t change much in terms of the attendance.  That being said, if other people agree with my sentiments, I’d suggest some type of collective efforts via Regal Cinemas corporate to address these issues. I’ll leave it at that.

Do you agree? Is the UA Court Street a lousy place to see a movie? Regal Cinemas has a nifty feedback form on its website if you’d like to give them your opinion.

Flickr photo by bettyblade

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  • Bart

    Correction:

    I meant to write “an overlap of DIVERSE patrons”

  • esgg

    Okay, um…back to the original post? (As much as arguing with strangers on the internet is satisfying and productive…)

    If you don’t like the theater – which I don’t – don’t go. Which I don’t. As Jim astutely said above, there is no incentive for management to change because their audience is satisfied with the conditions. Take the big 8 block walk to the Cobble Hill Cinema, or if you’re hankering for surround sound, hop a train to Battery Park.

    No one here is “entitled” to have a great theater on their block. I have lived in plenty of neighborhoods of Manhattan in which the nearest theater / grocery store/ dry cleaner / bodega wasn’t to my liking either. I moved on.

    Life’s too short for stupid boycotts.

  • JL

    Oh please – stop trying to hide bad behavior behind racism – it has nothing to do with racism. I’m a minority myself – GAY – and I have plenty of friends from all different minorities. I am not racist, but I am against going to a movie theater where the patrons don’t shut up during the movie, bring infants into the theater, have no respect for thier fellow theater goers, and don’t give a shit about anyone else but themselves. GET A CLUE !

  • Screech

    I don’t understand what being happy and peppy all the time has to do with this discussion or how that makes you a minority.

  • clarknt67

    I go there a lot, as I live very close. I don’t get the “dirty” complaints. I don’t think it’s especially unkept, at least in comparison to other urban theaters.

    I agree, the crowd at times lacks manners and is unruly, but hey, this is NYC. I select the movies days and times I see there and can avoid the worst of it. Otherwise, I agree, move to some pristine suburb if it bothers you so much.

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