Northumbrian Gunner: New York Day 5

Columbus Circle is situated at the south western corner of Central Park. It is the the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, and West 59th Street. The circle is the point from which official highway distances from New York City are measured.

At it's centre is a monument to Christopher Columbus who's journeys marked the beginning of centuries of exploration and colonization of North and South America.

Columbus Circle

Columbus Circle Christopher Columbus Memorial

Central Park stretches 4 km (2.5 miles) from Central Park South at 59th Street to Central Park North at 110th Street. It lies between Central Park West at Eighth Avenue and 0.8km (0.5 miles) to Fifth Avenue on the east.

South West corner Central Park

Central Park IJ

Central Park Jazz Musicians

Central Park

Central Park Willowdell Arch VM

The Balto Memorial in Central Park is dedicated to the dog who led a team of sled dogs in Alaska from Nenana to None to deliver vital medical supplies in the winter of 1925.

Balto Statue

An inscription on the memorial reads "Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxin six hundred miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the Winter of 1925."

Musher Gunnar Kaasen with Balto

Central Park 65th Street and 5th Avenue

The New York Plaza Hotel is located on 5th Avenue on the south east corner of Central Park. The 18 story French Renaissance-inspired château style building at it's peak had over 800 rooms.

New York Plaza Hotel

Fifth Avenue is a major and prominent thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan. It stretches 10 km from Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village to West 143rd Street in Harlem. It is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world.