Deutsche Bank Center

You are approaching the Deutsche Bank Center, a massive twin-towered complex that defines the western edge of Columbus Circle. Before this structure rose in 2004, the site held the New York Coliseum, a windowless, hulking convention center built by Robert Moses in the 1950s that eventually became an urban dead zone after newer facilities opened elsewhere. The completion of this building was a symbolic moment for the city, as it stood as the first major construction project finished in Manhattan following the September 11 attacks. Its design, characterized by two trapezoidal towers linked by a glass-walled atrium, was intentionally shaped to allow a visual corridor along 59th Street, giving the illusion that the street continues directly through the building toward the park.