BGuthrie Photos: NY -- NYC -- Columbus Circle

NY -- NYC -- Columbus Circle:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. COLUMB_161005_15.JPG: To Christopher Columbus The Italians resident in America, scoffed at before, during the voyage, menaced, after it, chained, as generous as oppressed, to the world he gave a world.
2. COLUMB_161005_17.JPG: Joy and glory never uttered a more thrilling call than that which resounded from the conquered ocean in sight of the first American island Land! Land! On the XII of October MDCCCXCII [1892], the fourth centenary of the discovery of America in imperishable remembrance.
3. COLUMB_161005_27.JPG: G Russo Invento e scolpi [Invented and sculpted] Roma 1892
4. COLUMB_161005_50.JPG: A Cristoforo Colombo cl Italiani residenti in America Irriso Prima Minacciato Durante Il Viaggio Incatenato Dopo Sapendo Esser Generoso Quanto Oppresso Donava un Mondo, Al Mondo
Wikipedia Description: Columbus Circle
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The statue of Columbus by Gaetano Russo in the middle of Columbus Circle with the Time Warner Center in the background.
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.

The circle

Completed in 1905 and renovated a century later, the circle was designed by William P. Eno – a businessman who pioneered many early innovations in road safety and traffic control – as part of Frederick Law Olmsted's vision for Central Park, which included a "Grand Circle" at the Merchants' Gate, its most important Eighth Avenue entrance.

The monument at the center of Columbus Circle, created by Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo, was erected as part of New York's 1892 commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Americas. Constructed with funds raised by Il Progresso, a New York City-based Italian-language newspaper, the monument consists of a marble statue of Columbus atop a 70-foot (21 m) granite rostral column decorated with bronze reliefs representing Columbus' ships: the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María, although actually they are Roman galleys instead of caravels. Its pedestal features an angel holding a globe.

Renovations to the circle completed in 2005 included new water fountains by WET, of Fountains of Bellagio fame; wooden benches; and plantings encircling the monument. The inner circle measures approximately 36,000 square feet (3,300 m2), and the outer circle is approximately 148,000 square feet (13,700 m2). The redesign, by the Olin Partnership of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the recipient of the 2006 American Society of Landscape Architects’ General Design Award Of Honor. In 2007 Columbus Circle was awarded the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence silver medal.
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