Lincoln Towers

Lincoln Towers

Lincoln Towers is an apartment complex on the Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan that consists of six buildings with eight addresses on a 20 acre campus, bounded on the south by West 66th Street, on the west by Freedom Place, on the north by West 70th Street, and on the east by Amsterdam Avenue. Each building has a West End Avenue address, although one of the Lincoln Towers buildings is located on West 66th Street, and another on West 70th Street. Some buildings have 28 floors and some have 29 floors (no 13th floor), and between 15 and 20 apartments per floor. (In fact Lincoln Towers houses so many people that each building is its own polling place. [ [http://gis.nyc.gov/vote/ps/index.htm NYC Board of Elections - Poll Site Locator ] ] ) The ground floor of each building is primarily occupied by professional offices and other small businesses; the upper floors are residential.

Lincoln Towers is part of the massive Lincoln Square urban redevelopment of the old San Juan Hill district of Manhattan in the 1960s that razed a large area of what were deemed slums by development officials. Researchers at Columbia University recently completed an architectural history of the Lincoln Square redevelopment project [ [http://www.arch.columbia.edu/hp/studio/2006-2007/pdf/Lincoln%20Square.pdf Lincoln Square: Preserving the Modern Architecture of Slum Clearance, Urban Renewal and their Architectural Aftermath] ] .

The project was converted from rental apartments to a complex condo/co-op structure in 1987. Each building is an independent condominium comprising the residence, the professional units, and the underground garage. The residence in each building is in turn a co-op. Each of the eight addresses is a member of the Lincoln Towers Community Association, an umbrella organization responsible for the maintenance of the grounds and provision of security on the large parklike campus.

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