Newsday from New York, New York • 74

B6 The retail complex at the new Time Warner Center lures shoppers with luxe stores in a spectacular setting The four-story Shops at Columbus Circle which opened Feb is the base of the two towers of the 17-billion Time Warner Center On higher floors CNN will have its studios Jazz at Lincoln Center will offer performances and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel of-fers rooms with a Central Park view for $876 a night-Two below-ground concourses house an Equinox Gym and the biggest supermarket in all of Manhattan a branchofthe wildly popular Whole Foods Market The retail component has close to 40 stares in alL think really said line 38 And that was before her massage call it a stress- relieving experience because not licensed masseuses corrected Bhoma Goomanaingh cheerfully as she worked on Fine) Shoppers can buy French Laundry by Thomas Keller and at Home with a Four-Star by Jean-Georges Vongerichten in the biggest Williams-Sonoma in the United States But wait mare they can then escalate upstairs to the fourth floor to be served those creations in their new restaurants Per Se and Rare The food at thi mall is not pizza slices and hot pretzels filet mignon a sushi dinner for $300 Men and women too can smoke as long as in the cigar lounge at Davidoff furnished with plush chairs and rugs and paintings The lounge a separate ventilation system from the mall and storage for the best cigars customers who might drop $40000 for a lighter encrusted with 60 diamonds But no matter how high-end The Shops at Columbus Circle might aspire to be no matter how grand its scale still at its heart a mail shoppers say It draws moms with strollers curious tourists New Yorkers on their lunch breaks also got an occasional construction worker in a hard hat walking among the crowds because as those visiting now will note the Time Warner Center is still being polished The upscale restaurants on the third and fourth floors (which some have jokingly called the food court) have yet to all FEBRUARY 19 2004 Part 2 Naaradaj Photo Beam Escalator! carry shoppi rs abova Whola Foods By Beth Whitehouae dlRors on ttio lowor lovol nurnnn uaan Fins knelt and leaned her face into the cushioned black oval ntiriinting pleasure An Aveda sales adviser gathered long wavy black hair off her neck and started to knead dog Mocha followed his tail in a circle and then seated himself next to his pampered mistress Complimentary massage while shopping fin- cosmetics? A pooch in the store? brand- new Shops at Columbus Circle may look and feel like a shopping mall but not exactly the mail as most of us know it Walk in and see AX Armani Exchange Joseph Ab-boud Cole Haan Hugo Boss Spin around and spend a moment taking in the enormous 150-fbot-high glass atrium that offers a cinematic view of Columbus Circle at the southwest corner of Central Park the gateway to the Upper West Side WIIIIhh loaoma: La Coraue range the of hand-assembled in At Davidoff: Leather humidor $7000 Cigar lighter encrusted with 60 diamonds $40000 At Citrftir jffla black dresses for $148 or $218 Black leather pants size 0 $238 Gold gown with beaded bodice $328 A SAMPLER At Staart Wsltzmaa: Strappy silver sandal called Wicked $335 nwtdiing evening bag $320 (Joan Rivers incidentally wore Wicked sandals at the Golden Globes last month according to France $27500 Beluga caviar $168 for 60 grams Knife made from dinosaur fossil $3500 matching cuff links $490 Double cigar $2667 David Osc arson fountain pen $4200 At JW Caopec alligator-skin jacket $12500 beaver coat $4500.