Lincoln Center

The facilities include the Metropolitan Opera House, New York State Theater, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Damrosch Park, Vivian Beaumont Theater, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, The Juilliard School, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Some of these have changed their names: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre was previously named The Forum, and Avery Fisher Hall was previously Philharmonic Hall. Some of the plazas have acquired names commemorating charitable contributions (Paul Milstein Plaza, Julian Robertson Plaza).

Lincoln Center houses several cultural companies and institutions, including:

• The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
• The Film Society of Lincoln Center
• Jazz at Lincoln Center
• The Juilliard School
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., also called "Lincoln Center Presents"
• Lincoln Center Theater
• The Metropolitan Opera
• New York City Ballet
• New York City Opera
• New York Philharmonic (who have announced to return to Carnegie Hall however)
• The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• School of American Ballet

Architects who are represented at Lincoln Center include:

• Max Abramovitz
• Pietro Belluschi
• Gordon Bunshaft
• Wallace Harrison
• Philip Johnson
• Eero Saarinen

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