New York Coliseum
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The New York Coliseum was a convention center that stood on Columbus Circle in New York City from 1954 to 2000. It was designed by Leon and Lionel Levy in a modified international style, and included both a low building with exhibition space and a twenty-story office block.
The Coliseum was built by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority under master planner Robert Moses as part of an effort to revitalize the West Side and improve the city's convention facilities. It was widely criticized, even from inception, for sitting at a prominent location but having a completely banal design. It was rendered functionally obsolete by the construction of the much larger and more flexible Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in 1986, and the complex was demolished in 2000 to make way for the Time Warner Center, which now occupies the site.
