March 28, 2023 - 7:00 PM
50°F / 10°C

Walkthrough of the plazas surrounding Lincoln Center performing arts complex in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Highlights:
00:00 - Walking east on West 65th Street
00:36 - Lincoln Center Theater
01:10 - The Juilliard School
01:52 - Hearst Plaza
03:43 - Shelby Cullom Davis Museum
04:55 - David Geffen Hall and New York Philiharmonic
06:16 - Fountain at Josie Robertson Plaza and Metropolitan Opera House
06:50 - David H. Koch Theater
07:47 - Entering Damrosch Park
08:56 - Guggenheim Bandshell

From Wikipedia:
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses internationally renowned performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Juilliard School.

A consortium of civic leaders and others, led by and under the initiative of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III, built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of New York's urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contracted to design the major buildings on the site.

Rockefeller was appointed as the Lincoln Center's inaugural president in 1956, and once he resigned, became its chairman in 1961. He is credited with raising more than half of the $184.5 million in private funds needed to build the complex, including drawing from his own funds; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund also contributed to the project. Numerous architects were hired to build different parts of the center (see § Architects). The center's first three buildings, David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall, originally named Philharmonic Hall), David H. Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater), and the Metropolitan Opera House were opened in 1962, 1964, and 1966, respectively.

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