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Columbus Circle: the greatest suburban cul-de-sac on earth?
Columbus Circle sits on the southwest corner of Central Park, spinning travelers in centrifugal force out toward Broadway, Central Park West, 59th Street (Central Park South), and Eighth...
Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South ( West 59th Street ), and Central Park West, at the southwest corner of Central Park.
Columbus Circle is a traffic circle located at the intersection of Broadway, Central Park West, Eighth Avenue, and 59th Street, near the southwest corner of Central Park. It is named for the monument to Christopher Columbus which stands at its center. Location. West Side at 59th. Restrooms. No restrooms.
- The Columbus Circle NYC Subway Station
- Monuments at Columbus Circle
- Time Warner Center
- The Museum of Arts and Design: No More Lollipops
- Things to Do Near Columbus Circle NYC
- Living Near Columbus Circle NYC
Built on a gentle curve, and full of all kinds of convex and concave walls, IRT Columbus Circleserving the 1 train is one of the more interesting of the subway’s original 28 stations. It’s the only one that features plaques by Grueby Faience, a Massachusetts pottery company renowned for distinctive vases and tiles. The plaque depicts “the great nav...
Gaetano Russo’s Columbus Circle monument was dedicated in 1892, 400 years after Christopher Columbus’ three ships arrived in the New World. The Carrara marble monument displays the mariner on a column surrounded by fountains (added in 1965), with an allegorical figure depicting the Spirit of Discovery, two other figures portraying Columbus’s journe...
Topped by a pair of towers reaching 69 stories in height, the Time Warner Center is the corporate seat of Time Warner, the cable empire, the home of cable network CNN, and home to multimillion-dollar condos as well as upscale shops and restaurants. It replaced the New York Coliseum (1954-2000), which had suffered for years after the Javits Center r...
Until 2002, the Museum of Arts and Design at 2 Columbus Circle was informally known as the Lollipop Building, because of the marble figures at the base of the building. (It was constructed in 1964 by A&P heir Huntington Hartford, who had a voluminous art collection and desired a showcase for it.) The Modernist structure was designed by architect Ed...
The Shops at Columbus Circle offers such staples as H&M, Hugo Boss, L’Occitane, J. Crew, Williams-Sonoma, Amazon Books, Whole Foods and much more. The southwest end of Central Park offers a verdant escape, though this is one of the park’s more crowded spots. The architecturally interesting Greyshot Arch and Pine Bank Bridge are nearby. You can dine...
Median rent in the Columbus Circle area is $3,450, which is at the higher end for Manhattan. Units are available in such buildings as the Element, at 555 W. 59th St., and 160 Riverside Blvd. Condo apartments in Time Warner Center go for higher price points, ranging from $9,000 to $25,000 per month to rent. The lowest-priced for-sale listing is curr...
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The City’s most well-known monument to Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is located at the center of Columbus Circle, near the Park’s southwest corner. A…
