66 Street (1) - The SubwayNut

66 Street-Lincoln Center is a renovated in 1999 local station that has some replica (and a few original) terra-cotta decorations on the platform walls. This consists of a wide, brown trim line relief. The text in the trimline are white 66s on a blue background, with a wide brown boarder that looks like an extension of it. Beneath the 66s (and what makes them definitely replicas) are inside the blue interlocking blue CLs. There are name tablets as well which are terra-cotta reliefs just below the wide trimline with a blue background and brown boarder and say 66th St, with Lincoln Center beneath. These are definitely replicas because Lincoln Center wasn't built until the 1960s! I also remember the pre-renovation station with the same cream colored block walls and a pink trimilne like what is found at 79th St and 86th St still. The original station terra-cotta reliefs can be found near the station entrance and these look the same (except the white portions are greyed a bit) and are lacking the L.C. references.

For access each platforms has it's original platform area fare control towards its northern end. The uptown side is now unstaffed with the 24 hour booth on the downtown side. Here two sets of streetstairs and an elevator lead from each platform to each side of Broadway just south of 66 Street.

The downtown platform has an additional unstaffed entrance at it's southern end where there is also an underpass accessed via a single staircase down from each platform to the uptown platform. This exit was built in the 1960s when Lincoln Center opened. This exit leads out to an underground passageway into Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts serving the various performing arts venues in the complex along with a streetstair up to the west side of Columbus Avenue, just south of it's diagonal intersection with 65 Street and Columbus Avenue. This exit is alongside the driveway and drop-off road into Lincoln Center
Photos 1: February 5, 2004; 2: February 17, 2005; 13-26: December 27, 2008; 27-38: June 19, 2011

Arts For Transit at 66 St-Lincoln Center

Artemis, Acrobats, Divas, and Dances, 1999

Glass and Cermaic Mosaic on the platform walls

By Nancy Spero assisted by Sam Kunce and Shari Zolla

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A 66th St name tablet

Passengers wait for a train at 66 St

A modern 66^th St Lincoln Center terra-cotta name tablet

A modern 66 CL trimline tablet

Looking down a platform with a sign for the 66 St & Broadway, notice the sign has both the wheelchair symbol and escalator symbol, logos the MTA rarely employs with any standards (although useful), the escalator appears on occasion as well

A downtown train blurs into 66 St beyond a Restricted access area with the newsstand visible

A R62A 1 train stops at 66 St

An original 66 terra-cotta trim cut-out

The ceiling has restored terra-cotta reliefs

Looking down the downtown platform towards 66 St main entrance

An old light cut out on the platform at 66 St

A 66 trimline name sign and name tablet at the northern end of the downtown platform

The elevator and staircase to the street from the main entrance on the downtown platform

Looking down the downtown platform with a sign that the 65 Street entrance is closed due to Lincoln Centers long-term renovations but the underpass is still open

Getting closer to the underpass end of the platform

The No exit sign for the underpass

A small sign for the service on the downtown platform, the sticker blocking out the 9 train is clearly visible

The Closed exit to 65 Street due to Lincoln Center's Renovations

The staircase for the underpass, with unique lighted ads

Inside the underpass between the platforms at the 65 Street end of the platform

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