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.
Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad) and trains on the inner tracks bypassed the station. Notes Further reading Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad) The Park Avenue Tunnel carries four tracks of the Metro-North Railroad underground from Grand Central Terminal at 42nd Street to a portal at 97th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The tracks rise to a full viaduct by 99th Street. The New York and Harlem Railroad first opened a horsecar line on this route to Harlem station at 125th Street in 1837. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (later New York Central Railroad) lowered the tracks into the passage