110th Street (Manhattan) Circle, a shallow amphitheater at 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, at the northeast corner of Central Park. Unveiled in 1997, the statue, by sculptor Robert Graham, is tall, and depicts the Muses — nine nude caryatids — supporting a grand piano and Duke Ellington on their heads. Duke Ellington Circle is also the site of the future Museum for African Art. Where 110th Street crosses Central Park West and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, at the northwest corner of Central Park, is Frederick Douglass Circle. The south edge of Morningside Park lies along West 110th Street between Manhattan Avenue and Morningside Drive.
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