AMC 34th Street 14 & IMAX

New York · United StatesConfirmed ×2

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 40/100 — a modest premium screen, 143 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.

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312 W. 34th St., New York, NY, 10001 · Open in maps ↗

IQ 40

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 16.5 m × 9.2 m (152 m²)
Screen shape: 1.79:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 212
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2009
Operator

Why IQ 40

Screen size8/38

Projection24/36

Full 1.43 frame8/18

Sound0/8

How big, really?

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3AMC 34th Street 14 & IMAX · 16.5×9.2 m · picture 143 m², 6% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 152 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 152 m²
Picture: 143 m²
Screen used: 94%

0.5 m of this screen — 6% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.

Worth travelling for?

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AMC Lincoln Square 13 IMAX

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Where this comes from

Confirmed ×2

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: confirmed by 2 sources
Projector: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

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