AOL Time Warner Center
Time Warner Center, originally constructed as the AOL Time Warner Center is a mixed-use skyscraper at Columbus Circle. The floors are divided between offices, residental condominiums, shopping center, and the Mandarin Oriental hotel. Time Warner Inc. has taken office space in the lower floors below the main towers. The Shops at Columbus Circle is an upscale shopping mall on the lower level of Time Warner Center, which also includes a collection of luxury restaurants on its uppermost floor. The complex is also home to a new CNN studio (which features tours for visitors), and a 6,000 seat theater for Jazz at Lincoln Center.Time Warner Center has attracted much attention as the first major building to be completed since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, although it was already under construction before the attacks. Ironically, the building has two towers and has become known to many New Yorkers as the "new twin towers." Additional publicity was generated in 2003 when David Martinez paid $45 million dollars for a penthouse condo, a record for New York residental sales. The building's street address is officially 25 Columbus Circle, but the developers use the name "One Central Park" to promote the residential units. The address One Central Park West, meanwhile, belongs to a tower across the street owned by Donald Trump.
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