The Lincoln Square Synagogue at 200 Amsterdam Avenue at the corner of West 69th Street in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was founded as a congregation in 1964 by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin. The travertine building it now occupies was built in 1970, and was designed by the firm of Hausman & Rosemberg.
The synagogue is currently building its new location, just down the block, at 180 Amsterdam Avenue, and hopes to be in its new location sometime during the second quarter of 2012.
Rabbi Shaul Robinson is currently the senior rabbi at LSS, which is affiliated with Modern Orthodox Judaism. Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald heads the popular Beginners Minyan at the synagogue.
Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan had her bat mitzvah at the synagogue.
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