Broadway and 64th Street

Even though it is not in this tour, we would be overlooking a very important project in which a Rockefeller participated, and which the Rockefeller Foundation helped, were we not to mention it. I refer to Lincoln Center. Much as Rockefeller Center, it has its genesis in the search for a new site for the Metropolitan Opera, only this time it found one. The member of the family was John D. Rockefeller 3rd and he had a key role. "Wanting to do something in the New York picture" was the way he put it. Other than assisting in raising funds, he was one of several involved who enlarged the project to include all the performing arts. In addition to him was Wallace K. Harrison, the architect whose career was closely allied to the family. In fact, he was to be the architect of the Opera House.

The tour goes south on York Avenue, to Sutton Place, south to 53rd Street, west on 53rd and south on Second Avenue to 46th Street, and east on 46th Street to First Avenue and the United Nations.

Pool with Henry Moore sculpture, Metropolitan Opera House in the background.

Charles Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House in the background.

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