Duke Ellington Circle Duke Ellington Circle Duke Ellington Circle is a traffic circle located at the Northeast corner of Central Park at the foot of Fifth Avenue and of 110th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The traffic circle is named for the jazz musician Duke Ellington. Formerly named "Frawley Circle", the traffic circle was renamed "Duke Ellington Circle" in 1995. In 1997, a tall statue by sculptor Robert Graham, depicting the Muses — nine nude caryatids — supporting a grand piano and Duke Ellington on their heads was erected in the middle of the shallow amphitheater composing the circle.
Central Avenue (Albany, New York) the street was called "The Bowery." (Dutch settlers named it "Bouwerie" meaning "road to the farm"). The name Bowery dropped out of favor due to a negative connotation from the Bowery in New York City. On July 15, 1867, the City of Albany, N.Y. Common Council eliminated the name Bowery and named it Central Avenue. The Central Avenue corridor is currently managed by a Business Improvement District called the Central District Management Association, Inc. A Chinatown () is located around Central Avenue in the downtown district with 303 Central Avenue being the location of the Chinatown mall. According to Tsui