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Columbus Circle, named for Christopher Columbus, may be a circle and heavily trafficked intersection within the the big apple town borough of Manhattan, set at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, park South (West 59th Street), and park West, at the southwest corner of park. It’s the purpose from that all official distances from the big apple town square measure measured. The name is additionally used for the neighborhood some blocks round the circle in every direction. To the south of the circle lies Hell’s Kitchen, conjointly called “Clinton”, and therefore the Theater District, and to the north is that the higher side.
Completed in 1905 and restored a century later, the circle was designed by William P. Eno – a bourgeois World Health Organization pioneered several early innovations in road safety and control – as a part of town Law Olmsted’s vision for park, including a “Grand Circle” at the Merchants’ Gate, its most significant Eighth Avenue entrance.
The monument at the middle of Columbus Circle, created by Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo, was erected as a part of New York’s 1892 commemoration of the four-hundredth day of Columbus’ landing within the Americas. Made with funds raised by Il Progresso, a replacement York City-based Italian-language newspaper, the monument consists of a marble sculpture of Columbus atop a 70-foot (21 m) granite rostral column embellished with bronze reliefs representing Columbus’ ships: the Niña, the Pinta, and therefore the Santa María. Its pedestal options Associate in Nursing angel holding a globe.
Renovations to the circle completed in 2005 enclosed new water fountains by WET, of Fountains of Bellagio fame; picket benches; and plantings skirting the monument. The band measures just about thirty six,000 sq. Feet (3,300 m2), and therefore the outer circle is just about 148,000 sq. Feet (13,700 sq m). The design, by the Olin Partnership of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the recipient of the 2006 yank Society of Landscape Architects’ General style Award Of Honor. In 2007 Columbus Circle was awarded the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence ribbon.
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