66th Street is a crosstown street in the New York City area of ​​Manhattan with sections on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side connected at Central Park via 66th Street Transverse. West 66th Street is the historic Lincoln Square location and the modern Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Broadway and Columbus Avenue, as well as the name of a subway station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line that caters to cultural establishments.
The westbound road, contrary to the rule that even-numbered trails usually head east, begins on the Upper East Side on York Avenue opposite Rockefeller University. On Fifth Avenue, the road to Central Park, joining traffic east on Transverse Street 66 across the park. Drive on the Upper West Side, across West End Avenue and end up on Riverside Boulevard in the Riverside South neighborhood.
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Founder's Hall, located on York Avenue at the east foot of East 66th Street, was the first building to open on the Rockefeller University campus. It was the first major philanthropic foundation created by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974 and is still used as a laboratory.
Manhattan House, located on 200 East 66th Street, was designated a New York City landmark in 2007 by the New York City Landmark Conservation Commission for influential influential medieval modernist architecture. Benny Goodman, Grace Kelly, architect Gordon Bunshaft and other respected residents live there.
Cosmopolitan Club is a private ladies club located between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue. Members include Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jean Stafford, Helen Hayes, Pearl Buck, Marian Anderson, Margaret Mead, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. The building was bought by the club in 1930.
45 East 66th Street is a red-and-white Gothic 10-story apartment house website completed in 1908 for Charles F. Rodgers designed by architect Harde & amp; Short. This site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
West Side
The West 66th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West is the address for the ABC News Office and named the Peter Jennings Way in 2006 in honor of the final news reader. The famous Manhattan Restaurant, Tavern on the Green, which operates from 1934 to 2009, is also located on West 66th Street, in Central Park West.
66th Street is the site of the New York Manhattan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Designs for a 38-storey structure include a ground-level retail space, a church center downstairs and 325 apartments. In 1972, the plan faced opposition from community organizations and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton who protested against the policy of overriding blacks from ministerial posts in the church, which did not end until 1978.
The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts covers an area of ​​16.3 hectares (6.6 acres) between Columbus Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue, from West 60th to West 66th Street. The project, designed to consolidate many of the city's cultural institutions at one site was built as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during the urban renewal program of Robert Moses in the 1960s. The first structure completed and occupied as part of this update was the Fordham University Law Faculty in 1962. The Dauphin Hotel was among the structures that were destroyed as part of the project.
In 1972, the Chinese government purchased the 10-storey Lincoln Square Motor Inn on Broadway for nearly $ 5 million, converted into China's Mission to the United Nations, including offices and residence for its delegation in New York. The location makes it the only permanent base of any country on the West Side of Manhattan. In 1998, the Chinese government traded the site with buildings located on First Avenue and 34th Street, to get closer to the UN. The site was converted into an extension of the 100-apartment Phillips Club, an extended stay hotel.
Lincoln Towers is an apartment complex consisting of six buildings with eight addresses on the campus of 20 acres (81,000 m 2 ), bordered on the south by West 66th Street, on the west by Freedom Place, to the north by West 70th Street, and on the east by Amsterdam Avenue.
The 1986 plan by Donald Trump as part of his Television City proposal will place the world's tallest building - 150 floors and 1,910 feet (580 m) high - on the corner of West End Avenue and 66th Street, as part of its development. from a 100 acre property along the Hudson River between 59th Street and 72nd Street on the Penn Central train track.
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Parks and recreation
Richard Tucker Park, which includes 0.05 acre (200 m 2 ) is located on the corner of Broadway and Columbus Avenue. The park includes an operatic tenor statue of Richard Tucker by the dedicated sculptor Milton Hebald on April 20, 1980, consisting of a bronze statue larger than life on a 6 foot (1.8 m) granite pedestal. The original proposal of 1978 for the seven-foot tall statue of Tucker, described in the role of Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut's opera by Giacomo Puccini, had been opposed by a member of the Manhattan Community Board 7, who felt that it should be placed inside The Metropolitan Opera House of Fame, and not public property.
Famous citizen
Notable current and former residents of 66th Street include:
- James Bryant Conant (1893-1978), served as President of Harvard University for 20 years, and lives on 200 East 66th Street.
- Benny Goodman (1908-1986) Bandleader, 200 East 66th Street.
- Ulysses S. Grant, former President of the United States, lived on 3 East 66th Street from 1884 until his death the following year.
- Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847-1907), founder of the American Sugar Refinery Company, built a romantic-style home on 1 East 66th Street.
- Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978), the poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, lives on 200 East 66th Street.
- Edward Streeter (1891-1976), famous writer for his novel Father of the Bride, lives on 200 East 66th Street.
- Andy Warhol (1928-1987), the central figure in the Pop Art movement, lives on 57 East 66th Street.
Transportation
The 66th Street-Lincoln Center station on IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line is located at the junction of 66th Street and Broadway. It is served by 1 and 2 trains.
M66 provides a crosstown bus service between West 66th Street and West End Avenue on the Upper West Side and East 67th Street and York Avenue on the Upper East Side. The route dates back to one established in 1935 by the Comprehensive Omnibus Company.
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