MOVIES AT THE PALACE MEMBERSHIP 2026

MOVIES AT THE PALACE MEMBERSHIP

Movies at the Palace Memberships offer access to all regularly priced United Palace movie screenings for our entire 96th anniversary year (February 2026 thru January 2027). The season will feature titles selected by the United Palace ($10 tickets), and our friend, neighbor, and patron Lin-Manuel Miranda (FREE tickets). Our first screening of the 2026 season will be a special double-feature of Superman (1978) and Batman (1989) in February.

Membership benefits include:

• Two (2) free tickets to all United Palace-produced screenings that are regularly priced at $10 (at least 6 in 2026) 
• Two (2) early access tickets to all free Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda screenings (at least 4 in 2026) 
• Priority seating to all above screenings (as available) 
• Priority access to special activations (as available) 
• Ten (10) free popcorn vouchers to redeem throughout the year 
• Ten (10) free raffle tickets for fun movie swag to redeem throughout the year 
• One (1) vote for a "Member's Choice Screening" for a film you would like to see on the big screen
• Your name in lights on the big screen before each movie
• Special access to other United Palace programs and activities throughout the year
• The knowledge that your support is helping to maintain the movie program at the largest, grandest, most over-the-top cinema in New York City

UNITED PALACE HISTORY 

The ornate United Palace opened in 1930 as the Loew's 175th Street Theatre, a deluxe movie theater and vaudeville house, the last of the five Wonder Theaters in New York City and New Jersey. Its first act as a movie theater ended in April 1969 with a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

With a groundswell of community support and our good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies returned to the United Palace in 2013. Since then we have screened over 100 feature films, from world premieres ( In the Heights  and Halftime and as part of the Tribeca Festival) to all-time classics ( It's A Wonderful Life ), to community favorites (the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom  about local school children winning a citywide dance contest).

Our goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs.

One of our highest compliments came from Robert DeNiro who, speaking before a 50th anniversary screening of The Godfather , described watching a movie at the United Palace as: “The moviegoing experience doesn't get any better.”