Lincoln Center Unveils Preliminary Design for Amsterdam Avenue Addition
By Afton Markay(Photo credit: Brooklyn Digital Foundry)
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA) announced the preliminary design for the Amsterdam Avenue side of its campus.
The project creates a new world-class outdoor performance venue, community park spaces, and removes the wall that has separated Lincoln Center from Amsterdam Avenue. Key features of the renovations include creating new welcoming entrances along the complex’s west side, community park featuring a lawn, water feature, tree groves, and garden for public enjoyment, sidewalk improvements, including an improved bus waiting area, increased greenery and shade along this edge, and more benches and lighting for an enhanced pedestrian experience, among other improvements.
While planning, the organization incorporated community feedback from an ongoing participatory process that began in 2023. The design also balances the interventions made to the east side of Lincoln Center’s campus more than a decade ago, which created more welcoming outdoor spaces on the north and east of campus needed to deliver on its founding mission of the arts for all.
The $335 million capital campaign to support the transformation of the west side of Lincoln Center’s campus has raised 65% to-date, including generous support from the LCPA Board of Directors. Other investments include a $10 million commitment from the State of New York, a $75 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), and a lead gift from The Starr Foundation.
Designers are Hood Design Studio, WEISS/MANFREDI, and Moody Nolan.
This project is being undertaken in coordination with NYC Parks and NYC Department of Transportation. Damrosch Park is mapped city parkland maintained and operated by LCPA. Construction is expected to begin in spring 2026 and to be completed by spring 2028.
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