Forest Hills Cinemart Slated For April Reopening

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — Forest Hills' historic Cinemart Cinemas is slated to reopen in April, several weeks after a state order takes effect that allows New York movie theaters to resume screenings at limited capacity.

Cinemart, at 106-03 Metropolitan Ave., is on track to reopen April 1, according to a social media post and news reports.

"Being shut down for one year it takes time to get back our staff, training for cinema safe protocols and last but very important," a Cinemart Cinemas Facebook post reads, "we will like to pressure Hollywood to move up some good movies earlier on their release schedule instead of the current B movies now available."

Nicolas Nicolaou, the owner of the historic theater and two others in the city, told Variety that his locations will only be able to admit 50 people per auditorium, under the 25-percent capacity limit set by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

That will not be enough to make a profit, but Nicolaou will reopen anyway, he told Variety.

“Within a reasonable amount of time, we hopefully will be allowed to operate at 50 percent, which makes more economical sense," he said.