Lincoln Center
Five million people a year pass through 16.3 acres where the Met Opera, the Philharmonic, City Ballet, and Juilliard all sit in one complex.
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Thirty indoor and outdoor venues spread across a 16.3-acre Upper West Side complex, home to five major performing-arts organizations. Built during Robert Moses's 1950s-60s urban renewal under John D. Rockefeller III, it displaced more than 7,000 residents and 800 businesses from the old San Juan Hill neighborhood to make room.
What to look for
- The central Lincoln Center Fountain, named for Charles Revson, which opened in 1964
- The street sign for "Leonard Bernstein Place" on the stretch of 65th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway, renamed in 1993
- The Metropolitan Opera House, the last of the three original halls to open (1966)
It fills the Lincoln Square blocks on the Upper West Side of Manhattan; the Charles Revson fountain at the center makes an easy meeting point.
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More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.