Manhattan User's Guide rips the Columbus Circle Time Warner Mall a new one:

The shiny, but painfully bleak mall at the Time Warner Center (aka the Shops at Columbus Circle), has unwisely flung open its doors. Misguided and oppressive at every turn, filled with small outposts of retailers you see on every Main Street of every city, the Shops will only serve to confirm New Yorkers' views of malls as soulless, somnolent, and creepy.

The Shops at Columbus Circle [MUG]