Columbus Circle's Underground Market Gets 4 New Stores: Report

UPPER WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN — Columbus Circle's Turnstyle Underground Market is getting four new stores, the West Side Rag reports.

The Eighth Avenue underground market that sits next to Columbus Circle is adding two new kiosks and two new shops to its line-up of businesses this month, all opening in the first two weeks of February.

Here's what's on the way, according to the Rag:

• Harkiss Designs — a lifestyle, kitchenware and fashion accessories brand that will open a kiosk at the center of the corridor. The items for sale are hand-crafted by a women-owned business in East Africa.
• 2Dutcheese — A cheese kiosk that will become the first brick-and-mortar location for the brand, which was started as an online store for gouda cheese imported directly from the Netherlands. The new kiosk will include line-up of unusual cheeses — like coconut gouda, white truffle gouda, whiskey gouda, and mushroom and chestnut gouda — and accessories like cheese knives, graters and boards.
• Kuru Accessories — Another premiere brick-and-mortar spot, this time for a fashion brand that makes custom-designed jewelry with Italian leather and apparel from Parisian-based designers. The business will open at PopStart, the retail incubator at the north side of the corridor.
• Tissi — Also in PopStart, the brand Tissi will be opened by a third-generation silver and gold craftsman from the country of Georgia. Owner Ketevan Gogishvili has been practicing the tradition since appreinticing in his grandfather's cellar workshop as a child.

The new additions will join the nearly 40 kiosks, shops and dining outposts in Turnsytle Market, which is found under Eighth Avenue between West 57th and 58th streets.

Three other businesses, two food spots and one store, are also coming soon to the underground mall, according to Turnstyle's website.

Those additions will include Hotel Chocolat, Far East BBQ and Davidovich Bakery, though opening dates are not yet announced.

The market has seven street-level entrances and does not need a MetroCard to enter.

To read the West Side Rag's full descriptions of the new outposts coming in February, click here.