despite a duane reade, chase, and starbucks on every corner, there still are plenty of things to make the city worth fighting for:
Columbus Circle was a stop on the original subway and gets what the transit agency calls a “K1” handrail. This was introduced on the IRT and the BMT before 1918 and “reflects the late 19th-century Beaux Arts tradition,” according to the official transit design manual. The lamppost rises from an almost Classical plinth and culminates in a kind of stripped-down Corinthian capital.
the bmt gets a different treatment