Lincoln Center is New York City’s leading performing arts complex, bringing together about 30 venues and institutions on 16.3 acres in Manhattan and attracting around five million visitors annually. Planned in the 1950s through the Lincoln Square Renewal Project, it was driven by John D. Rockefeller III and built with major private fundraising, but its creation displaced more than 7,000 residents and 800 businesses from San Juan Hill. Beginning in 1959, the campus developed through major openings in the 1960s and continued to evolve through broadcasts, expanded programming, new leadership milestones, and large-scale renovations. Its significance lies in both its artistic prominence and its contested urban renewal legacy.

New York, New York · USA