Lincoln Square (Manhattan)

Lincoln Square is called both a place like the neighborhood that surrounds this place, in the New York district of Manhattan.

Location

The square Lincoln Square is located in the Upper West Side at the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue between West 65th Street and 66th Street.

This area is connected to the New York subway network by the U -Bahn station 66th Street - Lincoln Center (IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line ).

History

West of Columbus Avenue and Broadway, this district was similar to run down as before Hell's Kitchen in the south and as depicted in West Side Story. The construction of the Cultural Center Lincoln Center and more recently Trump Place and other hochgeschossiger apartment buildings led to gentrification of the western end of Lincoln Square.

The Lincoln Square BID cares about the tourist office, cleaning the sidewalks as well as a security guard.

The name origin is still not clear.

Cultural

The district is also the cultural center of the Lincoln Center with the Metropolitan Opera is (in short: MET), the American Ballet Theatre, the New York Philharmonic and its Concert Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the New York State Theater, the productions of the New York City Ballet and the New York City Opera shows. ( Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis ) Again, the Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard Drama School, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the Film Museum of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Rose Theater of Jazz at the Lincoln Center institution are housed.