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broke into the Hallelujah
Chorus – and the city’s major
cultural center was born. It
soon covered 15 acres (6 ha)
on the site of the slums that
had been the setting for
Bernstein’s classic musical
West Side Story. The plaza
fountain is by Philip Johnson,
and the sculpture, Reclining
Figure, is by Henry Moore.
Jazz at the Lincoln Center has
developed a state-of-the-art
facility dedicated to a wide
range of jazz performances. It
forms part of a major complex
at Columbus Circle.
3 David H. Koch
Theater
Lincoln Center. Map 11 D2. Tel (212)
870-5570. q 66th St. 7 8 0
= See Entertainment pp340–41.
∑ nycballet.com
The home base for the highly
acclaimed New York City Ballet,
The San Remo, a twin-towered apartment house designed by Emery Roth and, until 2011, the home of
the New York City Opera, is a
1 Twin Towers of Groucho Marx, Marilyn Monroe, Philip Johnson design. It was
inaugurated in 1964.
and Richard Dreyfuss. The
Central Park West Majestic (115 CPW) and the Gargantuan white marble
Century (25 CPW) are both sleek sculptures by Elie Nadelman
Map 12 D1, 12 D2, 16 D3, 16 D5.
q 59th St-Columbus Circle, 72nd St, classics by Art Deco designer dominate the vast four-story
81St, 86th St. Closed to the public. Irwin S. Chanin. foyer. The theater seats 2,800
people. Because of its rhine-
A familiar landmark on the New 2 Lincoln stone lights and chandeliers
York skyline, the four twin- both inside and out, some
towered apartment houses on Center for the describe the theater as “a little
Central Park West were built Performing Arts jewel box.”
between 1929 and 1931, before Map 11 C2. Tel (212) 546-2656.
the Great Depression halted all q 66th St. 7 8 (212) 875-5350. 4 Metropolitan
luxury construction. They are 0 = See Entertainment pp344–5.
among the most-sought-after ∑ lincolncenter.org Opera House
residences in New York. Lincoln Center. Map 11 D2. Tel (212)
Admired today for their grace In May 1959, President Eisen- 362-6000. q 66th St. 7 8 0 =
and architectural detail, they hower traveled to New York to See Entertainment pp344–5.
were designed in response to a turn a shovelful of earth, ∑ metopera.org ∑ abt.org
city-planning law allow ing taller Leonard Bernstein lifted his
apartments if setbacks and baton, the New York Phil- Home to the Metropolitan Opera
towers were used. harmonic and the Juilliard Choir Company and the American
Emery Roth designed Ballet Theatre, “the Met”
the San Remo (145 CPW), is the most spectacular
whose tenants have of Lincoln Center’s
included Dustin Hoffman, buildings. Five great
Paul Simon, and Diane arched windows offer
Keaton. Turned down by views of the opulent
the residents’ committee, foyer and two murals by
Madonna went to live Marc Chagall. (You
close by at 1 West 64th can’t see them in the
Street. The towers of the mornings, when they
Eldorado (300 CPW), also are pro tected from the
by Roth, were home to Central plaza at Lincoln Center sun.) Inside there are

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