Questions:

Is Lincoln Center a model of urban revitalization?

Subtopics:

Community

Economic

Group Member : Danli X, Vincent V, Milton M, ZheBin Z

Danli

“BLACK AND WHITE WAR IN A CROWDED DISTRICT; West Side Blocks Under Night-Stick Law for Hours. McADOO TAKES COMMAND Battle Ground Filled with Police — Shooting and Stoning Started When Negro Helped a Ragman.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 15 July 1905,

The journalist described a race fight happened between San Juan Hill and The Gut on July 14, 1905. The fight was started with a 22 years old black man, Henry Williams who was trying to help a ragman go through the blocks safely, but two other 17 years old white boys started attack them, the riot got severe after reinforcements came for both side. Policeman from near stations were all been called, the fight was controlled after few hours. Reserves made all residentials in the neighborhood to stay home, they found many bricks and bottles on housetops. Reserves were kept on patrol in the neighborhood until after midnight to prevent fight. The San Juan Hill was part of Slum Clearance Plan due to the frequent fights, but this article is a strong evidence to show that the fight wasn’t start with Black people, and it wasn’t community’s problem, it was the problem between races.

Source: www.nytimes.com/1905/07/15/archives/black-and-white-war-in-a-crowded-district-west-side-blocks-under.html.

Milton

The Lincoln center has had a great impact in New York’s City’s development. One of its major impacts in the city’s development has to do with its economic performance. According to the “Economic Role & Impact of Lincoln Center” it is considered to be one of the city’s prime fiscal and employment venues. The economic impact of the Lincoln center is estimated to be around $1.5 Billion for its metropolitan region firm along with 15,200 jobs providing $635 million in earnings. Not only has the Lincoln center itself has gained an increase of its value but also the properties around it by 2,608% compared with just 447% for the rest of the borough of Manhattan. The Lincoln center has an estimated spending of $530 million it has 9,000 full-time/part time positions which is around 5,500 full time employees.

MLA Annotated bibliography

Jacobs, Leonard. “Lincoln Center: $1.5B Impact.” Backstage, Backstage, 20 Oct. 2004,
www.backstage.com/magazine/article/lincoln-center-b-impact-23481/.
https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/lincoln-center-b-impact-23481/

Vincent

Williams, K. (2017, December 21). How Lincoln Center Was Built (It Wasn’t Pretty). Retrieved October 23, 2020, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/nyregion/how-lincoln-center-was-built-it-wasnt-pretty.html

How Lincoln Center Was Built explains Lincoln center’s detrimental effect on the upper west side community. Residential, commercial and education facilities were amongst the Upper West Side 18-block demolition, displacing over 7,000 lower class families and 800 businesses. Few black and Hispanic residents that were relocated would return to the 4,4000 new housing units, and many were crammed into low-income sections of the Bronx and Harlem. The 16.3-acre Lincoln Center campus was inaugurated in 1962 and was completed by 1969. While a beautiful
facility fir the upper echelon of New York City, slums and ghettos were created from the cramming of low-income public housing

ZheBin

Teachout, Terry. “Lincoln Center’s Dark Legacy.” 
Commentary, July/August 2015, pp. 60-63.

The authors, the critic-at-large of Commentary, reports on Lincoln
Center’s declining financial and artistic standards after 2010. The author
points out that Lincoln Center was also hit by the great Depression in the
arts at the time. Although it survived the closing of the New York City
Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, it also suffered financially. The
author points to problems with Lincoln Center’s performance planning
and the planning of its manager at the time as well as the fact that its
artistic and cultural influence was not as strong as it had been in the
1970s and 1980s.