A pair of mustard-and-green streetcars loop around the base of the Columbus Monument at Broadway and 59th Street in this jewel-toned Photochrome card — billboard-plastered tenements advertising Uneeda Biscuit and Hunter Whiskey ring the open plaza, a pedestrian in a bowler hat pauses mid-stride, and the city hums with Gilded Age energy. The image was made before the radical transformation of Columbus Circle; no hint yet of the Coliseum or Time Warner tower. Published by the Union News Company (UNCO) of New York using the G&S Photochrome process, the divided-back format and absence of any postage printed on back indicate a c. 1905–1910 date. Card number 1643 is printed on the left spine. Unused and bright, this card is a vivid window into the commercial streetscape of turn-of-the-century Manhattan.