Columbus Circle (monument) built

1892 CE.

Shown on the map at 40.768°, -73.982°.

Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and busy road junction in the New York City borough of Manhattan, at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South (West 59th Street), and Central Park West, at the southwest corner of Central Park. The circle is the Kilometre zero, point from which official highway distances from New York City are measured, as well as the center of the 25 miles (40 km) restricted-travel area for C-2 visa holders. The circle is named after the monument of Christopher Columbus in the center, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The name is also used for the neighborhood that surrounds the circle for a few blocks in each direction. Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, is located to the southwest, and the Theater District is to the southeast and the Lincoln Square section of the Upper West Side is to the northwest.

Text from the Wikipedia article Columbus Circle, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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