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A man was shot dead at 58th and Broadway just off of Columbus Circle around 2 p.m. today, and the assailant fled the scene.

The new exhibit in Columbus Circle of "Columbus' Living Room" by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi allows people to climb to the top of a 60-foot column and enter a room built around the 120-year-old statue of Christopher Columbus. There are cushy sofas, and magazines and newspapers on the tables, inviting ...

The Public Art Fund will open its newest exhibit "Discovering Columbus" on Thursday, and you can start reserving tickets now. The exhibit consists of a staircase that climbs up to the top of the 75-foot-tall granite column holding the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle, leading to a "living ...

As we wrote a few weeks ago, artist Tatzu Nishi is planning to build a staircase up to the 70-foot-tall Columbus Statue in the center of Columbus Circle and then build a "living room" around it. The public can then visit Columbus in his living room, which happens to have ...

There's a pretty stunning exhibit coming to Columbus Circle in September. The Public Art Fund will build scaffolding around the column in the center of the circle all the way up to the statue of Columbus, about 70 feet above the ground. In the scaffolding will be steps that will ...

July 9, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 85 Degrees.

The MTA is looking for a private real estate company to help it rent out 13 stores that it created as part of a massive renovation of the Columbus Circle subway station. The station gets lots of traffic -- 68,000 people a day, only some of whom choose to pee ...

By Stan Solomon Small wonder that some out-of-town visitors appear dazed and confused, for our city can sometimes (okay, most times) be a confusing place. Take the tourist-schlock-shop chain “Phantom of Broadway” (please!). Four of its six outlets are not on Broadway but on Fifth Avenue, Seventh Avenue, and even ...

When you live a life consisting of waving and smiling at people, you'd better look good. And Princess Kate Middleton has achieved that goal. One of her go-to stores has just opened on the Upper West Side, allowing women who have not yet found their princes to nonetheless look royal. ...

It's a tricky thing, drinking with small children. Even when it's a "healthy" decision -- just calmly having a cold beer with my small child on this lovely weekend day! -- there really are very few bars that allow you to drink like an adult, but not feel like an ...

Aren't liquidators great? In case you didn't get the MESSAGE, Borders in the Time Warner Center is closing down, and everything is being sold at a ridiculous discount.

August 5, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 83 Degrees. News: Fairway is selling a new kind of bread dedicated to Simon & Garfunkel. "Scarborough Fair" bread is made with "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme..." Unfortunately, it's only available at the new Upper East Side location for now even though ...

The liquidation sale at Borders has begun, and the store on the second floor of the Time Warner Center Columbus Circle will be offering "up to 40% off" on all sorts of items, from books to puzzles and games. In fact, you can buy just about everything that can be ...

The Borders store in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle will close its doors imminently, "as soon as Friday" an employee there told us today, because

May 31, 2011 Weather: Mostly sunny, High of 82 degrees. News: Central Park musicians muzzled in some areas, including Bethesda Fountain. (WNYC) Three people were injured, including two who were stabbed, in a melee at Columbus Circle Sunday. (Daily News) The Upper West Side Apple store appears to have been ...