Lincoln Center Will Finally Be Opened to the West Side

If you get to Lincoln Center from the east, you arrive wrapped in fanfare: wide stairs flanked by covered ramps, three great houses of music with luminous balconies framing a plaza, a fountain at the center, and an arcade on either side. It’s a festival of geometric grandeur. Come from the west, though, and you find yourself staring at the ass-end of a superblock, a 600-foot stretch of high white wall, interrupted only by the double orifice of a parking garage. Sure, you can enter from this side, but only at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 65th…