Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

As the world's premier performing arts center, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is located on 16.3 acres on the west side of Manhattan, just one block from Central Park. The complex houses 12 organizations that are involved with performing arts, such as the Chamber Music Society, the Juilliard School, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Ballet, to name a few.

The complex opened in 1961 by the original group of investors as an experiment in the arts. Today the museum hosts over five million visitors every year and is a major contributor to the arts and culture of New York City as well as worldwide.

At the complex visitors can walk around to view the architecture, purchase tickets for performances at one of several box offices located on the premises, or visit the David Rubenstein Atrium at the Lincoln Center where they can tour the building and learn its history and significance.

The Center is just 15 to 20 minutes west of LaGuardia International Airport. The center is near tourist sites that include the Empire State Building, New York Skyride, Grand Central Station, MoMA, Carnegie Hall, Ground Zero, Rockefeller Plaza, Central Park, Times Square, the Theater District, and Central Park Zoo.