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Frederick Douglass Circle, United States
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743 Frederick Douglass BlvdNew York
NY 10036
USA
New York, United States Print route » N40° 48' 2.1" W73° 57' 29.4" (40.800583333333, -73.958166666667) Start navigation »
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Frederick Douglass Circle is a traffic circle located at the northwest corner of Central Park at the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Central Park West) and 110th Street (Cathedral Parkway and Central Park North) in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The traffic circle is named for the American abolitionist, women’s suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass Circle connects the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem with the Upper West Side. Harlem, which since the 1920s has been as a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center is to the North and East of the intersection. Cathedral Parkway climbs westward from here into Morningside Heights, home of institutions such as Columbia University, the Manhattan School of Music and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.