The Shops At Columbus Circle

The Shops at Columbus Circle is an upscale shopping mall in Time Warner Center, a complex of skyscrapers in Manhattan, New York City. It is located at Columbus Circle, next to the southwestern corner of Central Park. The shopping mall includes Amazon Books, H&M, L'Occitane, Michael Kors, Hugo Boss, Tumi, Coach, Cole Haan, Thomas Pink, J.Crew and Stuart Weitzman. The mall also has several restaurants such as the Michelin 3-star Per Se, Masa (allegedly the most expensive restaurant in New York ), the East Coast flagship of Williams Sonoma, and a Whole Foods Market. It is owned by The Related Companies.
== Controversy ==
When opened, the Whole Foods Market at Columbus Circle sold liquor from an attached room near the cash registers away from the main shopping aisles. However, this configuration was in violation of New York's liquor licensing laws, which require grocery stores to have a separate street entrance to their liquor departments, ostensibly to avoid minors from buying liquors. In 2005, Whole Foods settled with state authorities and closed its liquor operations at Columbus Circle, hoping to transfer its license to a new location it would be opening on the Lower East Side. The space formerly used for liquor now sells Whole Foods' ECO line of cotton/hemp clothing, Whole Foods' health line Whole Body, and a restaurant, On Tap.
== Major Retailers ==
* Amazon Books
* Aveda
* Coach
* Cole Haan
* Diesel
* Diptyque
* Eileen Fisher
* Equinox
* H&M
* Hugo Boss
* J. Crew
* L.K.Bennett
* L'Occitane en Provence
* Lucky Brand
* MAC Cosmetics
* Moleskine
* Michael Kors
* Papyrus
* Sephora
* Stuart Weitzman
* Sugarfina
* Swarovski
* Ted Baker
* Whole Foods Market
* Williams Sonoma
Category:Upscale Malls
Category:Shopping Malls
Category:Malls in the United States
Category:Malls in New York
Category:Malls that opened in 2003
Category:Amazon Books Locations
Category:H&M Locations
Category:L’Occaine Locations
Category:Michael Kors Locations
Category:Hugo Boss Locations
Category:TUMI Locations
Category:Coach Locations
Category:Cole Haan Locations