Columbus Circle, New York

Photograph shows Columbus Circle with car traffic looking south with Broadway street in background, Upper West Side. Photograph taken in August 1952 by Angelo Rizzuto (1906-1967). Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Columbus Circle is a traffic circle located at the intersection of Broadway, Central Park West, 8th 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.

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