Transforming Lincoln Center

Transforming Lincoln Center

This area of the website is your resource for the latest information as well as background materials on construction activities at Lincoln Center. Up-to-the-minute pre-recorded information is also available by phone at (212) LINCOLN. Or, to speak to Customer Service staff, call 212.875.5456, Monday through Friday from 10:00am–9:00pm.

Construction News Winter 2012

Latest Construction Updates

Due to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center and ongoing Fordham University construction, the following traffic changes will be in place through February 26, 2012:

  • Traffic on 62nd St. between Columbus and Amsterdam is temporarily eastbound-only. The Department of Transportation is scheduled to restore two-way traffic by Monday, February 27.

  • The 62nd St. ramp to the Park and Lock Garage is closed.
  • Garage entrances are available at 63rd & 64th Streets and Amsterdam, and at 65th St. between Amsterdam and Broadway

  • Garage exits are available at 63rd St and Amsterdam and at Columbus, and at 62nd St. via the Jaffe Drive under the Grand Stairs

The Illumination Lawn is closed for the season.  Please enjoy our other facilities during this time.

COMPLETED ACTIVITY

West 65th Street

  • The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center is open to the public. The new facility includes the Francesca Beale and Howard Gilman Theaters, and an amphitheater housing a 152" Panasonic Plasma screen, the largest of its kind on public display in the country.
  • Lincoln, the new Italian fine dining restaurant at Lincoln Center, is open with Executive Chef Jonathan Benno, formerly chef de cuisine at Per Se. The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Lawn forms the roof of the restaurant.
  • Lincoln Center’s InfoBlades are active along 65th St. Part of the new 21st century information landscape on campus, these electronic billboards offer a lively display of information from all resident organizations.
  • Lincoln Center’s InfoPeel, on Broadway under the Credit Suisse Information Grandstand by Alice Tully Hall at 65th St., shows five high-definition LCD screens offering a constantly updated display of daily, featured, and upcoming events from all resident organizations.
  • The Juilliard Store is open in its new location at 144 W. 66th St., Monday–Saturday from 10 AM–6 PM. For further information, call 212-799-5000 X237.

ADA Access

  • A glass-enclosed elevator midway on the south side of W. 65th St. takes pedestrians from the sidewalk to Plaza level, providing ADA accessibility to Hearst Plaza
  • Direct pedestrian access between the corner of 62nd St. and Columbus Ave. and the Plaza provides an additional wheelchair-compatible approach
  • ADA access to Josie Robertson Plaza is available from the glass-covered ramps on Columbus Ave; at W. 62nd St. between Columbus and Amsterdam; or from the new sidewalk entrance at 64th St. and Amsterdam. For the concourse, enter from W. 65th St. between Columbus and Amsterdam.
  • An elevator from the Bruce and Robbi Toll Porte-cochère vehicular drop-off area under the Grand Stair offers ADA accessibility to Plaza level

Promenade and Josie Robertson Plaza

  • The Roslyn and Elliot Jaffe Family Drive is open to the public. Taking vehicles south from Broadway to a covered area beneath the expanded Grand Stair, the Drive provides a weather-protected pick-up/drop-off area for visitors at concourse level. Cars exit at Columbus Avenue at 62nd St.
  • From the Jaffe Drive drop-off area, the Bruce and Robbi Toll Porte-cochère entrance gives access to the concourse level, as well as to stairs, escalators, and an elevator leading up to Josie Robertson Plaza.
  • The modernized Revson Fountain re-opened with new water show displays
  • The Charles B. Benenson Grove at 62nd and Columbus, and Barclays Capital Grove on Hearst Plaza are open to the public, providing seating, shade, and free WiFi

Parking Garage and Concourse

  • Vehicles can enter the concourse at 64th St. and Amsterdam, and exit with a southbound turn that comes out on 63rd St. between Amsterdam and Columbus. After March 1, cars will exit the concourse at 62nd St. between Columbus and Amsterdam.
  • Concourse level connection to the Lincoln Center campus from the downtown #1 subway has been re-activated. Access to the downtown #1 subway train is available via the exterior stairs at Columbus Avenue and 64th St
  • Pedestrian access between 65th Street and the concourse system has been restored. Pedestrian access to the concourse is also available at 64th St. and Amsterdam, as well as from the lobby stairs of the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, and Lincoln Center Theater.

David Rubenstein Atrium

  • The Donald and Barbara Zucker Box Office, offering day-of discount tickets to available Lincoln Center performances, is open Tues–Sun at noon in the Atrium
  • Target Free Thursdays, a FREE performance series, take place every Thursday night at 8:30 PM. The first Saturday of every month offers a FREE one-hour, family-friendly Meet the Artist Saturdays show at 11 a.m. Audience members get to meet and ask questions of a professional performer, from classically trained musicians to comedians and pop artists.
  • Atrium amenities include a ‘wichcraft cafè, a staffed Information Desk, full-price ticket kiosks, a departure point for expanded Lincoln Center tours, vertical gardens and seating, restrooms, free WiFi, and a 42-foot-wide film screen.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

An important element in Lincoln Center’s redevelopment is the greening of the campus, including the vertical garden walls in the Rubenstein Atrium, the Barclays Capital and Benenson Groves, the additional greenery flanking the Grand Stairs on Columbus Avenue, the Illumination Lawn, and the rooftop green of Lincoln Center Theater. The Parks Department removed unsafe dead and dying trees in Damrosch Park and subsequently, the planters in which they are housed are in the process of being repaired and restored. A limited number of trees on the north side of Damrosch have been removed, replaced, or relocated; however, the result is a net addition of approximately 55 trees throughout Lincoln Center’s 16 acres. There will be tests conducted in Damrosch to determine how best to repair and restore any damage caused by leaks over the years. Given all of these factors and the many public uses of Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center and the Parks Department intend to consult widely with community groups about the future physical condition of Damrosch Park.