Ever the pandering pol with his eye on the next higher office, Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal demands that a “beloved” IMAX cineplex be saved.

He’s the latest local elected to come out against NYU Langone Health’s plan to acquire the massive Second Avenue site, which also holds a Fairway supermarket.

Onetime “Yes, in my back yard” crusader Hoylman-Sigal vowed to “not approve any prospective rezoning of the Kips Bay AMC 15 site without the inclusion of a cinema.”

The nabe’s future, he insists, “must include a movie theater and grocery store.” 

But, apparently, no hospital. Or the new housing that YIMBYs supposedly support.

“Of all the public benefits you could demand and you picked … a movie theater ???” tweeted one wag.

Another mocked: “He rides bravely into history, not to defend the Little Bighorn, but to defend the last stand of the 7:20 PM screening.”

It’s a cynical power play: Hoylman is abusing his powers to shake down NYU Langone and the landlord and pander to NIMBY locals terrified of a little extra traffic from a world-class medical center.

Or put it another way: Brad’s happy to blow up hundreds of jobs and desperately needed apartments just to keep popcorn popping.

This is what happens when theater kids win public office.