Columbus Circle is located at the southwest corner of Central Park, which is the lower upper west side of New York City, New York. Columbus Circle is a five lane rotary that controls the traffic at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South, and Central Park West.
Eighth Avenue is a one way north-south running street. 8th enters Columbus Circle from the south and picks back up as Central Park West on the north side of the circle where it turns into a two way street. Central Park West runs until it reaches the northwest corner of Central Park where the name changes back to 8th Avenue. Broadway is a diagonal two way street running in a northwest to southeast direction. Broadway enters Columbus Circle from the northwest and picks up again in the southeast as a one way street as it continues its descent into midtown. Central Park South or W 59th street is a two way East-West running street which ends at Columbus Circle and picks back up one block over on 9th Avenues behind Time Warner Center.
Public buses which serve the circle are the M5, M7, M10, M20, and M104 Below the circle lies the 59th Street – Columbus Circle subway station with service for the 1, 2 ,A, B, C, D, trains.
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