Columbus-circle – one of the main squares of new York, lying near the southwest corner of Central Park. It was named, of course, in honor of Christopher Columbus.

The square with its circular movement invented and created in 1905 by William Phelps Eno, a businessman and reformer of urban traffic. By 1900, although the cars were still a rarity, even in America, the mass of the buggy whip has become a problem for new York. Ino was the first to publicly raise the issue of security of traffic, and in 1903 amounted to the world's first regulations of movement for the city. Never learned to drive a car, he came up with pedestrian crossings, one-way streets, taxi stands, safety Islands for pedestrians and transport interchanges.

Columbus circle with a circular motion and represents a transport interchange, connecting Broadway to Eighth Avenue and highways running along Central Park. Here is the point of "zero kilometer" from which all distances are measured in new York. In addition, the area is very beautiful and is famous for its several monuments.

The first is towering in the heart of the monument of Christopher Columbus. The great Genoese Explorer enjoys great popularity in the Americas. In the U.S., Columbus Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October (because of the holiday most often does not coincide with the actual date of arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas archipelago, October 12). The monument represents a twenty-meter granite Rostral column, on top of which is a marble statue of the discoverer.

Modeled its Sicilian sculptor Gaetano Russo, funds for the installation of the monument to the 400th anniversary of Columbus ' arrival in the New world, collected by the Italian Diaspora. The monument was opened in 1892, at the opening ceremony was attended by about ten thousand people. A century later, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the expedition, the monument was restored by surrounding it with a ring Park and beautiful fountains. Now it is a popular place for meetings and relaxation.

At the entrance to Central Park is another famous monument to the sailors of the battleship "Maine" exploded and sank at anchor in Havana in 1898. The loss of 260 sailors was the pretext for the Spanish-American war. The huge monument: massive trinacromerum pole hoisted gilded female figure, which involve hippocampi (sea horses). Bronze figure cast from the guns of the sunken ship.

The area is surrounded by famous skyscrapers: the Time Warner center, which houses the headquarters of the television network CNN, and international hotel trump. In front of the building with a height of 176 meters there is a huge, visible from afar globe stainless steel.