Columbus Circle and Merchant’s Gate

Photograph shows Merchant’s Gate, Central Park entrance at Columbus Circle, featuring the Maine Monument. Along the horizon may be seen buildings on Fifth Avenue. The Columbus Monument is on the left. Photo by Ewing Galloway, about 1922. Source: The New York Public Library.

Merchants' Gate Plaza is a public plaza at the southwestern gate of Central Park. Today, in the holiday season, the Columbus Circle Holiday Market operates from this plaza and features unique gifts from vendors selling all sorts of goods from food to candles to clothes.