66th Street – Lincoln Center (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
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| Address | West 66th Street & Broadway New York, NY 10023 |
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| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Upper West Side | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°46′26″N 73°58′55″W / 40.774°N 73.982°WCoordinates: 40°46′26″N 73°58′55″W / 40.774°N 73.982°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | 1 2 |
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | October 27, 1904[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 6,783,446[2] |
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| Rank | 54 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | 72nd Street: 1 |
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| Next south | 59th Street – Columbus Circle: 1 |
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72nd Street: 1 |
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59th Street – Columbus Circle: 1 |
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66th Street – Lincoln Center is a local station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 66th Street and Broadway, it is served by the 1 train at all times, and by the 2 train during late nights.
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The station provides access to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts just to the south, with Alice Tully Hall just to the west. All of the Lincoln Center venues are connected by underground concourses near the southern end of the station. The park upstairs at the south end is named for the poet Dante Alighieri, whose statue is found there. Robert Merrill Park is nearby, at the north end of Lincoln Square. A number of schools are nearby as well, including the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and some small schools located in the former Martin Luther King, Jr. High School building, and there have been reports that some high school students traveling by subway interact aggressively with other subway passengers.[3]
The walls at the platform level were renovated in 2004 and are decorated with mosaics designed by New York artist Nancy Spero. Elevators to street level provide ADA-accessibility. There is also a crossunder between the uptown and downtown side platforms.
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[edit] References
- ^ New York Times, Our Subway Open: 150,000 Try It, October 28, 1904
- ^ "Facts and Figures: 2010 Annual Subway Ridership". New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority. http://mta.info/nyct/facts/ridership/ridership_sub_annual.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ^ Kennedy, Randy (April 24, 2001). "Tunnel Vision; When School's Out, the Subways Can Turn Ugly". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E6DB1639F937A15757C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
[edit] External links
Media related to 66th Street – Lincoln Center (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line) at Wikimedia Commons
- nycsubway.org — IRT West Side Line: 66th Street/Lincoln Center
- nycsubway.org — Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers Artwork by Nancy Spero (2004)
- Station Reporter — 1 Train
- Forgotten NY — Original 28 - NYC's First 28 Subway Stations
- MTA's Arts For Transit — 66th Street – Lincoln Center (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
- 66th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- 65th Street entrance (then closed) from Google Maps Street View