Columbus is a statue in Astoria, Queens created by Angelo Racioppi with funds from the New York City Works Progress Administration Art Project.

It stands in Columbus Square park, near the Astoria Boulevard station of the New York City Subway.

It began raising money for the statue, but work stalled when the community couldn't afford a base.

The statue was dedicated in 1941, but that year it provoked an argument between Queens Borough President George U. Harvey and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses.

[1] During World War II, the statue was removed and hidden on fears of being taken for war-use scrap metal.