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.
Robert Coleman-Senghor 2009 and mayor in 2010. While teaching, Coleman-Senghor experienced sudden chest pains. He died two days later, on April 9, 2011. On November 7, 2013, his widow unveiled a permanent memorial to Coleman-Senghor. The memorial is located in Cotati's Veterans Park near the intersection of Old Redwood Highway and East Cotati Avenue. Robert Coleman-Senghor Robert Coleman-Senghor (1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American professor of English at Sonoma State University who served as mayor of Cotati, California for one year. He died suddenly in the hospital from a blood clot (which two days earlier had caused a heart attack