Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts spans the area from West 62nd to 66th Streets between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenue.  Lincoln Center was built from 1962-1968, and is the largest cultural complex in the world ... and is New York’s premier performing arts venue.

The Center is comprised of 12 world-renowned, independent resident companies that represent the very best of performing arts today. They are: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Presents, Lincoln Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City Ballet and New York City Opera at the New York State Theater, New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts – a research and circulating library with an extensive collection of books, records, videos and scores on music, theater and dance, and the School of American Ballet.

Lincoln Center can seat nearly 18,000 spectators at one time in its various halls. In addition to its three core theaters, its major outdoor venue is Damrosch Park, where summer open-air festivals are often accompanied by free concerts at the Guggenheim Bandshell. Between the Metropolitan and Avery Fisher is the North Plaza, with a massive Henry Moore sculpture reclining in a reflective pool. Behind it stands the Vivian Beaumont Theater, officially considered a Broadway house despite its distance from the Theater District, and the smaller Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, where many award-winning plays originate.