66th Street–Lincoln Center station
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.

History 
Operation of the first subway began on October 27, 1904, with the opening of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway from City Hall to 145th Street on the West Side Branch including the 66th Street station.

On November 29, 1962, a new entrance at the station opened, leading to the lobby of the Philharmonic Hall of Lincoln Center. The entrance led from the downtown platform of the station, but also provided access to the uptown platform by an underpass at the station's south end. This entrance was built as part of a $10.2 million underground complex by the New York City Parks Department for the Philharmonic Hall. The project was partially funded by a Federal grant, and the work was contracted out to Slattery Construction Company.

Station layout

This underground station has two side platforms and four tracks. The two express tracks are used by the 2 train during daytime hours and the 3 train at all times.

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 at the extreme south end of the station; however, it is not ADA-accessible, and there is no free ADA-accessible transfer between directions.

Exits

Nearby points of interest

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. Dante Park, upstairs at the south end, is named for the poet Dante Alighieri, whose statue is found there. Richard Tucker 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.

This station also provides access to:

ABC Television Center East studios, and its affiliate WABC-TV
American Folk Art Museum
Amsterdam Houses, New York City Housing Authority
The Beacon School
Leonard Bernstein Way (W. 65th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway)
Central Park
Church of St. Paul the Apostle
Church of the Good Shepherd
Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Lower School
Fordham University Lincoln Center campus
Holy Trinity Church
Peter Jennings Way (W. 66th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West)
Juilliard School
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Square farmers market (at Richard Tucker Square)
Lincoln Square Synagogue
Manhattan New York Temple (Mormon)
Merkin Concert Hall
Museum of Biblical Art (American Bible Society)
New York Institute of Technology
 New York Society for Ethical Culture
West Side YMCA