#Lincoln Center

[world-of-celebs]

July 11, 2011 - New York, NY, U.S: Emma Watson at the 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2' New York Premiere which took place at Lincoln Center. 

#emma watson #red carpet #harry potter and the deathly hallows #movie premiere #new york #2011 #lincoln center #beauty #stunning #british celebrities #celebs #actress

[jgthirlwell]

03.02.24 Laurie Anderson performs Lou Reed's Hudson River Wind Meditations with Stewart Hurwood and Sarth Calhoun on the occasion of Lou's 82nd birthday. Stewart is manipulation Lou's guitars and amps. At Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center.

#Laurie Anderson #Lou Reed #Hudson River Wind Meditations #Stewart Hurwood #Sarth Calhoun #Bruno Walter Auditorium #Lincoln Center #drone

[shakespearenews]

Christopher Lloyd and Christopher Walken in the stage production Macbeth at Lincoln Center

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #christopher lloyd #christopher walken #macbeth #lincoln center #lincoln center theater #maccbeth #theater #theatre

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The construction of Lincoln Center required the obliteration of the neighborhood known as San Juan Hill. It was home to a large population of Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Afro-Caribbeans when Harlem was still White. Also known as "the Jungles," it was the setting for West Side Story, which opened on Broadway in 1957. It also had a lot of middle-class White residents.

As that was happening, residents were fighting the proposal for an arts complex in the Lincoln Square part of the neighborhood. The poster above urged residents to attend a meeting to stop the project on August 28, 1957. Harris L. Present, a lawyer who had long advocated for the rights of minority groups in the city, led the fight. More than 400 residents showed up. Present urged them to march on City Hall on September 11, hoping to overwhelm the City Planning Commission with pickets and testimony.

Check back here on September 11, 2023, for the sequel. (Spoiler: Lincoln Center was built anyway.)

Photo: Lincoln Center/Gothamist

#vintage New York #1950s #Lincoln Center #San Juan Hill #neighborhoods #urban renewal #Robert Moses #Harris L. Present #August 28 #neighborhood destruction #28 August #Aug. 28 #28 Aug. #gentrification #slum clearance

[susantyrrell]

Susan Tyrrell and Al Pacino in Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real at the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, 1970.

#susan tyrrell #al pacino #tennessee williams #Camino real #lincoln center

[obsessedbyneon]

Lincoln Center at night. From 'Inside New York' (1991)

Scan

#scan #lincoln center #new york #1980s

[shippingdragons]

Toby and I in NYC.

#toby stephens #corruption play #lincoln center #theatre

[adamdforever]

A baby

#adam driver #picoftheday #wednesday #actors #lincoln center

[lucaf2019]

New York City, Lincoln Center 27 febbraio 2024, première del film "La Bête"

#léa seydoux #leaseydoux #lea seydoux #lincoln center #la bête

[joeinct]

Lincoln Center, Photo by Ormond Gigli, 1964

#ormond gigli #lincoln center

[oldnewyork]

“Ellan Levitt leads picket line protesting proposed destruction of Lincoln Square neighborhood to build Lincoln Center. | Photo by Phil Stanziola.”

#1950s #old new york #vintage new york #lincoln center

[rabbitcruiser]

The Metropolitan Opera House opened at Lincoln Center in New York City on September 16, 1966, with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra.

#Metropolitan Opera House #Lincoln Center #16 September 1966 #anniversary #US history #Manhattan #New York City #tourist attraction #landmark #USA #travel #vacation #summer 2017 #original photography #Wallace Harrison #Harrison & Abramovitz Architects #modernist #30 Lincoln Center Plaza #Revson Fountain #David H. Koch Theater #David Geffen Hall #rainy day #architecture #cityscape

[jgthirlwell]

03.14.24 Kate NV at the Atrium at Lincoln Center

#Kate NV #Lincoln Center

[shakespearenews]

The generations of Shakespeareans that became the way they are because of Clueless-era Paul Rudd's purple speedo-clad Orsino.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #paul rudd #helen hunt #twelfth night #lincoln center #live from lincoln cetner #theater #theatre #nicholas hytner #Kyra Sedgwick #Youtube

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The saga of San Juan Hill, cont'd (for Part I, see this post)

On September 11, 1957, residents of San Juan Hill, the integrated, predominantly working-class neighborhood on the West Side between 59th and 65th Streets and West End and Amsterdam Avenues, showed up at City Hall. They were protesting the destruction of their homes for the purpose of building an arts complex called Lincoln Center.

The public hearing lasted nearly 11 hours, with 24 speakers supporting the project and 36 opposed. The issue was framed as housing vs. culture. They also pointed out that the housing units that Robert Moses had reluctantly agreed to build as part of the redevelopment would be out of the price range of current residents.

Two weeks later, West Side Story opened on Broadway. It took place entirely in San Juan Hill, although the community was never referred to by name. Although it's hard to believe now, the show received generally cool reviews; critics were taken aback by its grim realism and aggressive, jazzy score (by Leonard Bernstein).

Many neighborhood residents were offended by the portrayal of their home. Puerto Ricans, who made up 24% of the population who lived there, objected particularly to the line in the show-stopping number "America" that called Puerto Rico an "island of tropical diseases." (They ignored the context, which is a back-and-forth between a Puerto Rican girl who romanticizes the island and another who mocks her dreamy outlook.)

On October 25, the Board of Estimate, which was then the city's main decision-making body, held another hearing on the redevelopment project. This one lasted 18 hours, but it seemed that the Board's minds were made up. In late November, they voted unanimously to go ahead with Lincoln Center. Next June, the first residents of San Juan Hill were relocated.

In 1960, as the last of the brownstones were being demolished, a film crew moved in. It was the (first) screen version of West Side Story.

Photo: Gothamist

#vintage New York #1950s #San Juan Hill #Lincoln Center #gentrification #urban renewal #West Side Story #redevelopment #communities #slum clearance #neighborhood destruction #public hearing #Upper West Side #Youtube #September 11 #Sept. 11 #11 Sept.

[banalityofweevil]

Old Film at the Lincoln Center Posters

#really enjoy that they hired real artists to design them #lincoln center #film poster #david hockney #andy warhol