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Regal Cinemas8 Screens, 1641 Seats
Regal Atlas Park 8
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80-28 Cooper Avenue, Glendale, NY 11385, USA
Less than three years after the mall opened, it was in foreclosure. The cinema stayed. Regal Atlas Park launched on May 19, 2006. Eight screens. Inside the Shops at Atlas Park, Glendale, Queens. Regal Cinemas operates. The original capacity of 1,641 got cut to 1,574 during the 2018 recliner conversion. The mall has changed owners twice since the foreclosure. The theatre has run continuously throughout it.
Theatre Overview
Queens had lost more than a dozen movie houses by the mid-2000s. RKO Keith’s. Trylon. Elmwood. UA Crossbay. UA Forest Hills. UA Quartet. The Arion. Most of the closures came in the 1970s and 1980s. Glendale and the surrounding neighborhoods had been without a nearby cinema for years.
Regal Atlas Park Stadium 8 opened May 19, 2006. The debut coincided with the grand opening of the Shops at Atlas Park.
The mall took over 25 acres of the former Atlas Terminals industrial complex. Both properties carry the Charles Atlas name. Atlas was a bodybuilder. Early twentieth century. He grew up in Middle Village after moving from Calabria as a teenager.
Circular lobby with hand-painted murals on the walls. That was the architectural signature. A Queens Chronicle reviewer visited the opening weekend. Wrote that sound isolation between auditoriums held up well. Unusual for a multiplex of that size, per the write-up.
The mall almost didn’t survive its first decade. Foreclosure proceedings started on February 19, 2009. French banks Caylon and Société Générale took control. Macerich paid $54 million in 2011 to take the complex off its hands. Ashkenazy paid $72 million for it in 2025. The cinema ran straight through all of it.
Screens & Presentation
RPX on one screen. That’s the Regal Premium Experience format, the chain’s premium-large option with a wall-to-wall screen and dedicated sound. No IMAX at this location.
Digital projection throughout. 3D is available on titles released in that format. The opening-weekend review flagged sound isolation between screens as better than most multiplexes of the era.
8 auditoriums total. Originally 1,641 seats across all of them. That number came down to 1,574 when Regal installed King Size Recliners in 2018. Fewer seats per room. More legroom per seat.
Closed captioning devices available at the box office. Audio description on supported titles.
Seating & Auditorium Features
King-size recliners in every auditorium. The 2018 conversion pulled out the original rocker-style stadium seats and dropped in fully reclining chairs with padded footrests.
Stadium tiering from the 2006 build survived the renovation. Reserved seating applies to every screen. Seat selection happens during booking.
The Queens Chronicle’s opening-week write-up called the original chairs “high back comfortable rocking chairs” with generous legroom. That seating generation is gone. Current recliners are a noticeable upgrade regardless.
1,574 seats across 8 screens. Capacity per auditorium varies. The RPX room runs the largest.
Programming & Showtimes
Tuesday Value Days drops ticket prices for Regal Crown Club members. This location runs the promo. That’s the repeat-visit hook for the Glendale audience.
First-run Hollywood across all 8 screens. Wide releases take most of the slate. Animation and family titles book heavily on weekend matinees.
Doors open at 11 a.m. daily. Last evening shows start after 10 p.m. on weekends. Late-night 11:50 p.m. slots run for horror releases and select Monday or Tuesday dates.
RPX gets the biggest release of the week by default. Marvel openings. Star Wars openings. Avatar-tier spectacle.
Ticketing & Pricing
Thirteen dollars for a standard adult ticket at evening pricing. Seventeen for RPX. Seven for the Tuesday Value Day discount with Crown Club membership. Children and seniors run a few dollars below adult pricing.
Crown Club sign-up is free. Points accumulate on every purchase. Redemption works on tickets and concessions.
Regmovies.com handles online booking. The Regal app is the mobile path. On-site kiosks and the box office cover walk-ups.
Prices shift. 844-462-7342 for current rates.
Concessions
Atom Tickets pre-order works here. Order in advance, pick up in the express lane, and skip the main queue.
Standard Regal menu otherwise. Popcorn in the red-and-yellow buckets. Fountain drinks. Pretzels. Hot dogs. Nachos.
Dinner menu too. Pizza and wraps top the orders on that side.
Mall-side food sits within 30 seconds of the cinema entrance. California Pizza Kitchen across the oval. Chili’s is next door to that. Starbucks is on the way out.
Accessibility
Closed captioning devices at the box office. Audio description devices, too, on supported titles. Pick up either one at the counter before the showtime.
Wheelchair spaces in every auditorium. Companion seating is positioned right next to each. The mall garage has accessible parking on the same level as the cinema entrance, with an elevator connected.
Accessible washrooms sit in the main mall corridors near the cinema, not inside the cinema itself. Worth noting before arrival.
Location & Parking
Inside the Shops at Atlas Park. Suite #6216 at 80-28 Cooper Avenue in Glendale, Queens.
No direct subway access. 1.3 miles out to the nearest stop, Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue on the M train. Three MTA bus routes serve the area. Q29 runs along Cooper Avenue itself. Q47 and Q54 cover the cross streets.
On-site garage handles parking. $3 per hour with cinema validation, bringing the first portion free. The mall’s original validation policy was one hour free on arrival. Recent reviews suggest that it’s been tightened.
Street parking on Cooper Avenue and 80th Street is usually the better option on weekends.
Local Area Context
Glendale runs residential. Two-family homes dominate the streetscape, with a deep German-Italian heritage that’s diversified over the past thirty years toward Eastern European and South Asian populations. Latin American families have arrived more recently.
The neighborhood falls under Community Board 5. The district covers Ridgewood and Middle Village, as well as Glendale. Maspeth makes up the fourth leg.
Atlas Terminals was the economic anchor for decades before the mall replaced it. The 1950s tenant roster ran heavy on industrial giants. General Electric and Kraft were at their peak. Westinghouse. New York Telephone for a stretch. Most of that manufacturing work had moved out by the 1970s.
The mall that followed didn’t fit the neighborhood at first. Developers pitched upscale retail for a working-class area. The mix collapsed. Foreclosure hit in February 2009. Macerich bought the complex in 2011. Ashkenazy paid $72 million in 2025. Tenant rotation has settled into a big-box model that Queens shoppers actually use. TJ Maxx. HomeGoods. Chili’s.
Charles Atlas grew up in Middle Village. His birth name was Angelo Siciliano. Calabria-born, he moved to New York as a teenager. Became a fitness celebrity. The mall name came from that local connection to the neighborhood.