Columbus Circle - New York, NY - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

Taken from Wikipedia, "Columbus Circle, named for Christopher Columbus, 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. It is the point from which all official distances from New York City are measured. The name is also used for the neighborhood a few blocks around the circle in each direction. To the south of the circle lies Hell's Kitchen, also known as "Clinton", and the Theater District, and to the north is the Upper West Side."

"Broadway enters Columbus Circle at Fifty eight Street, crossing it diagonally. The General Motors Building towers above the Circle taking up the entire block on the west side of Broadway between Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eight Streets. It was designed by Shreve and Lamb and completed in 1928; it includes the original three-story Colonnade Building. The structure, with its simple piers, has directness of expression evident in few commercial buildings." -- New York City, 1939

Book: New York City Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 180 Year Originally Published: 1939

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