Lincoln Towers is an apartment complex on the Upper West Side

Upper West Side

The Upper West Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River and between West 59th Street and West 125th Street...

 of the New York City

New York City

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 borough

Borough (New York City)

New York City, one of the largest cities in the world, is composed of five boroughs. Each borough now has the same boundaries as the county it is in. County governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county...

 of Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

 that consists of six buildings with eight addresses on a 20 acres (80,937.2 m²) campus.

Location and description

It is bounded on the south by West 66th Street

66th Street (Manhattan)

66th Street is a crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan with portions on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side connected across Central Park via the 65th Street Transverse...

, on the west by Freedom Place, on the north by West 70th Street, and on the east by Amsterdam Avenue

Tenth Avenue (Manhattan)

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. Each building has a West End Avenue address, although one of the Lincoln Towers buildings has its entrance on West 66th Street, and another on West 70th Street. Some buildings have 28 floors and some have 29 floors (there is no 13th floor), and between 15 and 20 apartments per floor. Lincoln Towers houses so many people that some buildings are their own polling place.) The ground floor of each building is primarily occupied by professional offices and other small businesses; the upper floors are residential.

History

Lincoln Towers is part of the massive Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square, New York

Lincoln Square is the name of both a square and the surrounding neighborhood within the Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan...

 urban redevelopment of the old San Juan Hill

San Juan Hill, Manhattan

San Juan Hill was a predominantly African American neighborhood of tenements on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, which was largely razed as part of urban renewal to make way for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts....

 district of Manhattan in the 1960s that razed a large area of what were deemed slums by development officials. Researchers at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

recently completed an architectural history of the Lincoln Square redevelopment project.

The project was converted from rental apartments to a complex condominium/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.