Lincoln Square is the Manhattan "neighborhood" between 59th and 72nd Streets, and between Central Park West and the Hudson River. It's not a neighborhood as much as it's a tourist attraction and media vortex. It is presently graced by the lives and/or work of Donald Trump, Robert A.M. Stern, Philip Johnson, Madonna, Thomas Keller, and Regis, but what it doesn't have is a decent diner.
That's not to say that the area is soulless and boring. It might have more live performance spaces than any other zip code in the world. The Columbus Circle subway hub is a huge advantage to getting around the rest of the city. And once you get above, say, 67th Street, it's actually quite charming where they didn't destroy everything to build Lincoln Center and the surrounding high-rises. But the Upper West Side it's not. We don't need another Starbucks; we already have five (yes, five: 59th and 9th just south of the Fordham annex, 60th & BWay across from the TWC, 63rd & BWay next to PJ Clarke's, 70th and Amsterdam, and 67th & Columbus).
I just want to talk about what's going on in the area, whether it be for the global masses with an occasional opera review or the locals with news about some little business being forced out through a massive rent hike and being replaced with a Best Buy. We'll see what happens.
