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  1. October 8, 2026 Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says he won't approve any rezoning of the AMC 15 site on Second Avenue unless it keeps a cinema; NYU Langone has it under contract for clinical space.
  2. October 3, 2026 A Board of Correction report found officers played chess and slept while Christopher Rodriguez died at the new $241 million Bellevue outpost for Rikers detainees.
  3. September 25, 2026 The Council put $25.6 million into Bellevue to add 40 psychiatric beds at a hospital running about 98% full.
  4. September 24, 2026 Bellevue gets $25.6 million from the Council to add 40 adult psychiatric beds, for 204 total, in units running at 98% occupancy.
  5. September 21, 2026 Neighbors are fighting NYU Langone's plan to buy the AMC Kips Bay 15 building on First Avenue, which also houses a bank and a grocery store.
  6. September 5, 2026 The petition to save AMC Kips Bay 15 from NYU Langone's purchase of the retail complex passed 8,000 signatures, and Community Board 6 holds a public meeting on the closure Wednesday, Sept. 9.
  7. September 1, 2026 The AMC Kips Bay 15 closes at the end of the year after NYU Langone bought the retail complex, and local officials say they learned about it with everyone else; a petition to save it has more than 7,000 signatures.
  8. August 29, 2026 NYU Langone bought the shopping center under the AMC Kips Bay about a year ago and the theater is set to close by year's end; Assembly Member Keith Powers and other officials sent the hospital a letter asking it to talk.
  9. August 26, 2026 AMC will close its 15-screen Kips Bay theater, one of the city's few IMAX houses, by the end of 2026 after the landlord terminated the lease early.
  10. August 25, 2026 AMC Kips Bay 15, the chain's second-largest Manhattan multiplex and one of the city's few IMAX houses, closes by the end of 2026 after the landlord exercised an early lease termination.

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