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66th Street (Manhattan)
66th Street is a crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan with portions on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side connected across Central Park via the 66th Street transverse. West 66th Street is notable for hosting the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts between Broadway and Columbus Avenue.
The street runs westbound, even though even-numbered streets in Manhattan typically go east. Its eastern end on the Upper East Side at York Avenue opposite Rockefeller University. At Fifth Avenue the street enters Central Park on the 66th Street transverse across the park, sharing it with eastbound traffic. West 66th Street runs through a subsection of the Upper West Side named Lincoln Square. Once it crosses West End Avenue, the street ends at Riverside Boulevard in the Riverside South neighborhood.
Founder's Hall, located at York Avenue at the eastern foot of East 66th Street, was the first building opened on the campus of Rockefeller University. It was the first major philanthropic foundation created by John D. Rockefeller Jr. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974 and is still used as a laboratory.
Manhattan House, located at 200 East 66th Street, was designated as a New York City landmark in 2007 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for its influential mid-century modernist architecture. Benny Goodman, Grace Kelly, architect Gordon Bunshaft and other distinguished residents lived there. The street was widened during its construction.
The Cosmopolitan Club is a private women's club located between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue. Members have included Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jean Stafford, Helen Hayes, Pearl Buck, Marian Anderson, Margaret Mead, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. The building was purchased by the club in 1930.
45 East 66th Street is the site of a red-and-white French Gothic 10-story apartment house completed in 1908 for Charles F. Rodgers as designed by architects Harde & Short. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The block between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West is the address for the ABC News Headquarters and was co-named Peter Jennings Way in 2006 in honor of the late news anchor. The First Battery Armory is in the middle of the block at 56 West 66th Street. The famed Manhattan restaurant Tavern on the Green is located off of West 66th Street, at Central Park West.
66th Street is the site of the Manhattan New York Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The design for the 38-story structure included retail space at ground level, a church center on lower floors and 325 apartments. In 1972, the plan faced opposition from community organizations and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton who protested against the policy on exclusion of blacks from ministerial roles in the church, which was not ended until 1978.
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66th Street (Manhattan)
66th Street is a crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan with portions on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side connected across Central Park via the 66th Street transverse. West 66th Street is notable for hosting the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts between Broadway and Columbus Avenue.
The street runs westbound, even though even-numbered streets in Manhattan typically go east. Its eastern end on the Upper East Side at York Avenue opposite Rockefeller University. At Fifth Avenue the street enters Central Park on the 66th Street transverse across the park, sharing it with eastbound traffic. West 66th Street runs through a subsection of the Upper West Side named Lincoln Square. Once it crosses West End Avenue, the street ends at Riverside Boulevard in the Riverside South neighborhood.
Founder's Hall, located at York Avenue at the eastern foot of East 66th Street, was the first building opened on the campus of Rockefeller University. It was the first major philanthropic foundation created by John D. Rockefeller Jr. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974 and is still used as a laboratory.
Manhattan House, located at 200 East 66th Street, was designated as a New York City landmark in 2007 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for its influential mid-century modernist architecture. Benny Goodman, Grace Kelly, architect Gordon Bunshaft and other distinguished residents lived there. The street was widened during its construction.
The Cosmopolitan Club is a private women's club located between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue. Members have included Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jean Stafford, Helen Hayes, Pearl Buck, Marian Anderson, Margaret Mead, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. The building was purchased by the club in 1930.
45 East 66th Street is the site of a red-and-white French Gothic 10-story apartment house completed in 1908 for Charles F. Rodgers as designed by architects Harde & Short. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The block between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West is the address for the ABC News Headquarters and was co-named Peter Jennings Way in 2006 in honor of the late news anchor. The First Battery Armory is in the middle of the block at 56 West 66th Street. The famed Manhattan restaurant Tavern on the Green is located off of West 66th Street, at Central Park West.
66th Street is the site of the Manhattan New York Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The design for the 38-story structure included retail space at ground level, a church center on lower floors and 325 apartments. In 1972, the plan faced opposition from community organizations and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton who protested against the policy on exclusion of blacks from ministerial roles in the church, which was not ended until 1978.