Upper West Side-Lincoln Square

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Upper West Side-Lincoln Square covers the Upper West Side from roughly 59th Street to 72nd Street, bordered by Hell's Kitchen and Central Park.

  • 0.57 square miles
  • 70,697 residents, 2020 Census
  • 107 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

The city's Board of Aldermen made the name Lincoln Square official in 1906, though its records give no reason for the choice. The area is anchored by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, built mainly in the 1960s by a board of architects under Wallace K. Harrison; its buildings, set around a fountain plaza, house the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet and the Juilliard School. Fordham University's Manhattan campus is also here.

Sources: Lincoln Square, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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Upper West Side-Lincoln Square borders four areas, and Broadway holds more of its corners than any other street, 18 of 107.

Street map of Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, Manhattan, outlined among Upper West Side (Central), Hell's Kitchen, Central Park and Midtown-Times Square, with its four subway stations and Riverside Park South.Upper West Side (Central)Central ParkMidtown-Times SquareHell's Kitchen
  • Upper West Side-Lincoln Square
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 72 St lines 1 2 3 accessible
  • 72 St lines B C
  • 66 St-Lincoln Center lines 1 accessible
  • 59 St-Columbus Circle lines 1 A B C D accessible

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Upper West Side-Lincoln Square.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 3 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • M5
  • M7
  • M10
  • M11
  • M12
  • M20
  • M57
  • M66
  • M72
  • M104

Express bus route

  • BxM2

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 1,285 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 12.0 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 8 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 78 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
52
Accessible pedestrian signals
39
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
12
Turn calming
6
Safety Improvement Projects
5
Enhanced crossings
3

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 3,958 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 16,650 school-zone speed camera tickets at ten corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
West End Avenue & West 66th Street, 3,958
Most speed tickets
West End Avenue & West 70th Street, 3,209

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 70,697 residents in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, about 124,000 per square mile.

  • 44,545 homes, 2020 Census
  • 4,040 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 790 residential lots hold buildings from 1894 or earlier, and 86% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Amsterdam and Amsterdam Addition developments lie wholly or partly within Upper West Side-Lincoln Square.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
30.8 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Riverside Park South (21.1 acres), Lincoln Center Plaza (4.1 acres) and Damrosch Park (2.4 acres)
Designated landmarks
The First Battery Armory, the Sofia Brothers Warehouse, the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle and the Ansonia Hotel, among others
Historic districts
Central Park West - West 73rd - 74th Street, Upper West Side/Central Park West and West 71st Street, wholly or partly within Upper West Side-Lincoln Square

Streets and trees

Trees
2,592 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Broadway, with 18 of the area's 107
Height above sea level
From 7 feet at West 59th Street & Riverside Boulevard to 90 feet at Central Park West & West 70th Street
Honorary street names
8 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 25 schools and two libraries in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square.

Public schools
11
Charter and private schools
14
Libraries
Riverside Library and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 14 bike-share stations stand in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square. The City's public art inventory lists seven works in the area, among them Columbus Monument (1892), Giuseppe Verdi (1906) and Dante Alighieri (1921).

  • 14 bike-share stations
  • 7 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 728 major felonies at places in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square

  • 801 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,079 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, the NYPD recorded another 77 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 11.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square.

Police precincts
20th (most of the area), 18th
Major felonies recorded at places in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 361 major felonies at places in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, against 345 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.