Classic Newsstand Gets Ready to Roll

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By: David W. Dunlap | New York Times

Few newsstands merit a cameo role in a major motion picture, but the octagonal structure with a gracefully tapering roof at Columbus Circle is such an echt newsstand that Woody Allen cast it in “Bullets Over Broadway.”

“It’s like something from a Berenice Abbott photograph,” said Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner, whose agency oversees the newsstand since it sits at the southwest corner of Central Park.































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