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Baseball park
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A baseball park, also known as a ballpark or diamond, is a venue where baseball is played. A baseball park consists of the field and the surrounding spectator seating. While the diamond and the areas denoted by white painted lines adhere to rules, guidelines for the rest of the field are flexible. The term ballpark sometimes refers either to the structure, or sometimes to just the playing field. A home run where the player makes it around the bases, sometimes a home run over the fence is called out of the ballpark, but that phrase more often means a home run that clears the stands and lands outside the building. The playing field is most often called the ballfield, though the term is used interchangeably with ballpark when referring to a small local or youth league facility. A baseball field can be referred to as a diamond, the infield is a rigidly structured diamond of dirt containing the three bases, home plate, and the pitchers mound. The space between the bases and home is normally a grass surface, save for the mound in the center. Some ballparks, like Torontos Rogers Centre, have grass or artificial turf between the bases, and dirt only around the bases and pitchers mound, others, such as Koshien Stadium in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, have an entirely dirt infield. Two white lines run out from the plate area, aligned with first. These are the lines or base lines, usually differentiated by referring to them as the first base line. If a ball hit by the lands outside of the space between these two lines, or rolls out of this space before reaching first or third base, the ball is foul. If it lands between or on the lines, it is fair, at the end of the lines are two foul poles, which help the umpires judge whether a ball is fair or foul. These foul poles are actually in fair territory, so a ball hits them on the fly is a home run. On either side of plate are the two batters boxes This is where the batter stands when at bat. Behind home is the box, where the catcher and the home plate umpire stand. Next to first and third base are two boxes, where the first and third base coaches guide the baserunners, generally with gestures or shouts. As the baserunner faces away from the outfield when running from second base to third, they see where the ball is
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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Part of Brooklyn Community Board 1, the neighborhood is served in the south by the NYPDs 90th Precinct and in the north by the 94th Precinct. On the New York City Council, the western and southern parts of the neighborhood are represented by the 33rd District, and its eastern part by the 34th District. As of the 2010 United States Census, the neighborhood had a population of 32,926, since the late 1990s, Williamsburg has undergone gentrification characterized by hipster culture, a contemporary art scene, and vibrant nightlife. During the early 2000s, the became a center for indie rock and electroclash. Numerous ethnic groups inhabit enclaves within the neighborhood, including Italians, Jews, Hispanics, Poles, Puerto Ricans, in 1638 the Dutch West India Company first purchased the areas land from the local Native Americans. In 1661, the company chartered the Town of Boswijck, including land that would later become Williamsburg, after the English takeover of New Netherland in 1664, the towns name was anglicized to Bushwick. During colonial times, villagers called the area Bushwick Shore and this name lasted for about 140 years. Bushwick residents called Bushwick Shore the Strand, farmers and gardeners from the other Bushwick villages sent their goods to Bushwick Shore to be ferried across the East River to New York City for sale via a market at present day Grand Street. Bushwick Shores favorable location close to New York City led to the creation of several farming developments, in 1802, real estate speculator Richard M. Woodhull acquired 13 acres near what would become Metropolitan Avenue, then North 2nd Street. He had Colonel Jonathan Williams, a U. S. Engineer, survey the property, Williamsburg was incorporated in as the, Village of Williamsburgh within the Town of Bushwick in 1827. In two years it had a company, a post office and a population of over 1,000. The deep drafts along the East River encouraged industrialists, many from Germany, raw material was shipped in, and finished products were sent out of factories straight to the docks. Several sugar barons built processing refineries, Now all are gone except the now-defunct Domino Sugar. Other important industries included shipbuilding and brewing, on April 18,1835, the Village of Williamsburg annexed a portion of the Town of Bushwick. The Village then consisted of three districts, the first district was commonly called the South Side, the second district was called the North Side, and the third district was called the New Village. The names North Side and South Side remain in common usage today, the New Village became populated by Germans and for a time was known by the sobriquet of Dutchtown. In 1845 the population of Williamsburgh was 11,500, reflecting its increasing urbanization, Williamsburg separated from Bushwick as the Town of Williamsburg in 1840. It became the City of Williamsburg in 1852, which was organized into three wards, the old First Ward roughly coincides with the South Side and the Second Ward with the North Side, with the modern boundary at Grand Street
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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National Association of Base Ball Players
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The National Association of Base Ball Players was the first organization governing American baseball. The first convention of sixteen New York City area clubs in 1857 practically terminated the Knickerbocker era, the last convention, with hundreds of members represented only via state associations, provoked the establishment of separate professional and amateur associations in 1871. Because the amateur successor never attracted many members and it convened only a few times, beside the playing rules and its own organization, the Association governed official scoring, match play, a championship, amateurism, and hippodroming or the integrity of the contest. It permitted professionalism only for the 1869 and 1870 seasons, in its December 1867 meeting, its rules committee voted unanimously to bar any club composed of one or more colored persons, effecting the first known color line in baseball. By the end of 1865, almost 100 clubs were members of the organization, by 1867, it had over 400 members, including some clubs from as far away as San Francisco and Louisiana. Because of this growth, regional and state organizations began to assume a prominent role in the governance of the sport. The NABBP was initially established upon principles of amateurism, however, even early in its history some star players, such as James Creighton of Excelsior, received compensation, either secretly or indirectly. In 1866, the NABBP investigated Athletic of Philadelphia for paying three players including Lip Pike, but ultimately took no action against either the club or the players. To address this growing practice, and to restore integrity to the game, clubs desiring to pay players were now free to declare themselves professional. Cincinnati was the first to so declare and among the most aggressive in recruiting the best available players, twelve, including most of the strongest clubs in the NABBP, ultimately declared themselves professional for the 1869 season. Conflict arose, however, between amateur and professional interests, important issues included how the championship was to be decided and regulating players jumping from one team to another. As a result, in 1871 most of the professional clubs broke away to found the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. The NABBP continued for two years thereafter in a diminished status before disbanding into state and regional organizations. Contrary to the name, NABBP members were clubs not players. Generally the clubs joined the association and retained membership by sending delegates to the annual convention, the number of clubs at the convention, and thus in the association, increased from 16 to 25 to 50 by spring 1859. This list gives the sixteen who convened in 1857 followed by the three members who survived to be charter members of the National League in 1876, none of the sixteen did so. Dates refer to NABBP membership, not baseball activity or legal organization, but not all clubs retained membership annually, in particular, Newark, New Jersey is one of the cities across the Hudson River from New York. Eight Newark clubs were members and two more clubs from Newark, Empire in 1858 and Eckford in 1870, played matches with member clubs
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New York Mutuals
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The Mutual Base Ball Club of New York was a leading American baseball club almost throughout its 20-year history. It was established during 1857, the year of the first baseball convention and it was a charter member of both the first professional league in 1871 and the National League in 1876. Failing on the field and in the coffer, it declined to make its last western trip of the inaugural season, for the transgression it was expelled in December, and soon found itself defunct. The Mutuals chose open professionalism in 1869–70 after NABBP liberalization and they joined the first professional league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, for its 1871 to 1875 duration. In 1876, the Chicago White Stockings initiated the National League and recruited its members from West to East, the Mutuals were one of eight charter members, six of whom were from the National Association. Weak and cash-poor, the club refused to complete its playing obligations in the West, on May 13,1876, the Mutuals executed the first triple play in major-league history in a game against the Hartford Dark Blues. Union Grounds proprietor William Cammeyer, often listed today as the Mutual club owner, the team was effectively a one-year replacement for the defunct Mutuals, and was sometimes called Hartford of Brooklyn. The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857–1870, jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-7864-0779-4 New York Mutuals reenactors 1876 Mutuals at Baseball Reference
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Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey
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Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey is believed to be the site of the first organized baseball game, giving Hoboken a strong claim to be the birthplace of baseball. In 1845, Knickerbocker Club of New York City began using Elysian Fields in Hoboken to play due to the lack of suitable grounds across the Hudson River in Manhattan. On June 19,1846, the Knickerbockers played the New York nine on these grounds in the first organized game between two clubs, Alexander Cartwright was the umpire. By the 1850s, several Manhattan-based member clubs of the National Association of Base Ball Players were using the grounds as their home field, as Chadwick relates, I chanced to go through Elysian Fields during the progress of a contest between the noted Eagle and Gotham Clubs. The game was being played on both sides, and I watched it with deeper interest that any previous ball match between clubs I had seen. It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a sport for Americans. Chadwick went on to become the games preeminent reporter developing baseballs statistics, in 1859, an international cricket match was held with an All-England Eleven as part of an English tour of North America. With the construction of two significant baseball parks in Brooklyn enclosed by fences, enabling promoters there to charge admission to games, in 1868, the leading Manhattan club, the New York Mutuals, shifted its home games to the Union Grounds in Brooklyn. In 1880, the founders of the New York Metropolitans and New York Giants finally succeeded in siting a ballpark on Manhattan that became known as the Polo Grounds, the last recorded professional baseball game at Elysian Fields occurred in 1873. The large parkland area was developed for housing. A small remnant of the park bounded on the west by Hudson Street, on the north and east by Frank Sinatra Drive. To the west of Elysian Park at the intersection of 11th, a bronze plaque denoting the connection to early baseball was placed in the median strip of 11th Street between first and second bases. The restaurant and music club Maxwells front door is adjacent to where third base was located
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Manhattan
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Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the citys historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1,1683, Manhattan is often described as the cultural and financial capital of the world and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough and it is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders which equals US$1062 today. New York County is the United States second-smallest county by land area, on business days, the influx of commuters increases that number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile. Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York Citys five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, the City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the citys government. The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, a 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River. The word Manhattan has been translated as island of hills from the Lenape language. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, the area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, a permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam, the 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 to US$23, variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars, as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006, based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony, New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1653. In 1664, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York after the English Duke of York and Albany, the Dutch Republic regained it in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships, renaming the city New Orange. Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16,1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British political, British occupation lasted until November 25,1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
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National League
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Both leagues currently have 15 teams. The two league champions of 1903 arranged to compete against each other in the inaugural World Series, after the 1904 champions failed to reach a similar agreement, the two leagues formalized the World Series as an arrangement between the leagues. National League teams have won 48 of the 112 World Series contested from 1903 to 2016, the 2016 National League champions are the Chicago Cubs. By 1875, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players was dangerously weak, additionally, Hulbert had a problem—five of his star players were threatened with expulsion from the NAPBBP because Hulbert had signed them to his club using what were considered questionable means. Hulbert had a vested interest in creating his own league. After recruiting St. Louis privately, four western clubs met in Louisville, Kentucky, Boston Red Stockings, the dominant team in the N. A. Hartford Dark Blues from the N. A. Mutual of New York from the N. A. St. Louis Brown Stockings from the N. A, the only strong club from 1875 excluded in 1876 was a second one in Philadelphia, often called the White Stockings or Phillies. The first game in National League history was played on April 22,1876, at Philadelphias Jefferson Street Grounds, 25th & Jefferson, the new leagues authority was tested after the first season. The National League operated with six clubs during 1877 and 1878, over the next several years, various teams joined and left the struggling league. By 1880, six of the eight members had folded. The two remaining original NL franchises, Boston and Chicago, remain in operation today as the Atlanta Braves, in 1883 the New York Gothams and Philadelphia Phillies began National League play. Both teams remain in the NL today, the Phillies in their original city, the NL encountered its first strong rival organization when the American Association began play in 1882. The A. A. played in cities where the NL did not have teams, offered Sunday games and alcoholic beverages in locales where permitted, the National League and the American Association participated in a version of the World Series seven times during their ten-year coexistence. These contests were less organized than the modern Series, lasting as few as three games and as many as fifteen, with two Series ending in disputed ties, the NL won four times and the A. A. only once, in 1886. Starting with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1887, the National League began to raid the American Association for franchises to replace NL teams that folded and this undercut the stability of the A. A. Other new leagues that rose to compete with the National League were the Union Association, the Union Association was established in 1884 and folded after playing only one season, its league champion St. Louis Maroons joining the NL. The NL suffered many defections of star players to the Players League, the Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York franchises of the NL absorbed their Players League counterparts. The labor strife of 1890 hastened the downfall of the American Association, after the 1891 season, the A. A. disbanded and merged with the NL, which became known legally for the next decade as the National League and American Association
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Brooklyn Atlantics
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The Atlantic Base Ball Club of Brooklyn was baseballs first champion and its first dynasty. Established in 1855, Atlantic was a member of the National Association of Base Ball Players in 1857. In 1859, with a record of 11 wins and 1 loss, Atlantic held the championship through the 1861 season, albeit in controversial fashion. In a third and deciding game with Excelsior of Brooklyn, Excelsior was leading 8–6 and had men on base, the game was declared a draw, and the championship retained by Atlantic. Atlantic held the championship again through the 1861 season, which was shortened due to the American Civil War, Atlantic recaptured the pennant in 1866 with a season record of twenty wins, no defeats, and a single tie as the only blemish on its record. Atlantic went undefeated again in 1865 with an 18–0 record, sweeping series against chief rivals Mutual of New York, great players of this era included Joe Start, Dickey Pearce, Charlie Smith, Fred Crane, and Tom Pratt. Atlantics 36-game winning streak was broken in June,1866 by Irvington. Atlantic retained the pennant that year by splitting a series with Athletic of Philadelphia. Atlantic did surrender the title to Union in 1867, when Atlantic defeated Eckford to regain the pennant in 1869, Atlantic had already lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings. An estimated crowd of fifteen thousand paid 50 cents a piece to see Atlantic win 8–7 in extra innings in one of the most significant games in baseball history, Atlantic surrendered the title later in the year, though, to Mutual. Atlantic had been among the first clubs to declare themselves professional when allowed to do so in 1869, however, when the major professional clubs formed the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in 1871, Atlantic declined to field a team. As a result, their best players, including George Zettlein, Bob Ferguson, Joe Start and Lip Pike, jumped to other clubs. When Atlantic did join the circuit in 1872, it was unable to reestablish itself as a leading club. Atlantic was not invited to join the National League when that circuit was formed in 1876, a remnant Atlantic was invited to join the upstart American Association in 1882 but failed to satisfy the requirements for doing so. For many years afterwards, the term Atlantic batting referred to a big inning, source for season records, Wright has published records for dozens of NABBP teams each season, relying on a mix of game and season records in contemporary newspapers and guides. Dozens of leading clubs by number of matches are included, as are many others, the records do not consistently cover either all games played or all championship matches between NABBP members. 1872 Brooklyn Atlantics season 1873 Brooklyn Atlantics season 1874 Brooklyn Atlantics season 1875 Brooklyn Atlantics season The 1865 Atlantics are said to have been on the first ever baseball card. The only known card was archived at the Library of Congress since the 1880s and it remained the only card known to exist until 2013, when another card was found in an old photo album at a yard sale
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Hartford Dark Blues
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The Hartford Dark Blues were a 19th-century baseball team. The team was based in Hartford, Connecticut, the Hartford Dark Blues were a member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in 1874 and 1875 and the National League in 1876 and 1877. In 1877 the team played in Brooklyn, New York as the Brooklyn Hartfords, playing at the Hartford Ball Club Grounds, in 1876 they joined the National League as a charter member. The teams owner, Morgan G. Bulkeley, was also the first president of the National League, managed by their third baseman, Bob Ferguson, the Dark Blues went on to finish third in 1876 with a record of 47–21. The teams strong suit was pitching, with both Tommy Bond and future Hall of Famer Candy Cummings finishing with a run average under 2. The pitching staff recorded the most complete games and allowed the lowest number of home runs throughout the 70-game 1876 campaign, the teams best hitter was right fielder Dick Higham, who led the team in most offensive categories. The team left Hartford and moved to Brooklyn, New York for the 1877 season to become the Brooklyn Hartfords, managed again by Ferguson, the team finished in third again, with a record of 31–27. With Bond, Cummings and Higham all having left the team, the teams best player this year was undoubtedly right fielder John Cassidy, the team disbanded after the 1877 season. Author Mark Twain was a fan of the team
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1883 in sports
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1883 in sports describes the years events in world sport. England FA Cup final – Blackburn Olympic 2–1 Old Etonians and this is the first time that the FA Cup is won by a professional team and by a team from the north of England. Burnley FC moves to its present ground at Turf Moor and plays its first game there in February against Rawtenstall, bristol Rovers founded as Black Arabs FC. 6 September — Chicago White Stockings set a still standing record for Major League Baseball by scoring 18 runs in an inning in a game against the Detroit Wolverines. Events American heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan has a scare when he is knocked down in the first round of his fight against Charley Mitchell in New York City and he recovers to secure a technical knockout when police intervene after the third round and stop the fight. Sullivan goes on tour across America, fighting mainly in exhibition bouts, events England tours Australia to play a Test series of three matches, England winning 2–1 and so regaining The Ashes for the first time. It is the first championship ice hockey tournament and is won by the Montreal McGill University team,5 March – The Ottawa Hockey Club is founded. Sears defeats James Dwight 6–2 6–0 9–7
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New York metropolitan area
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The New York metropolitan area continues to be the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States, with the largest foreign-born population of any metropolitan region in the world. The MSA covers 6,720 sq mi, while the CSA area is 13,318 sq mi, encompassing an ethnically and geographically diverse region. In 2012, the New York metropolitan area was home to seven of the 25 wealthiest counties in the United States by median household income. According to Forbes, in 2014, the New York City metropolitan area was home to eight of the top ten ZIP codes in the United States by median housing price, with six in Manhattan alone. The U. S. Office of Management and Budget utilizes two definitions of the area, the Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Combined Statistical Area, the MSA is further subdivided into four metropolitan divisions. The 25-county metropolitan area includes 12 counties in New York State,12 counties in Northern and Central New Jersey, the largest urbanized area in the United States is at the heart of the metropolitan area, the New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT Urbanized Area. The New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area had an population of 23.7 million as of 2014. About one out of every fifteen Americans resides in this region, which includes seven counties in New York, New Jersey. This area, less the Pennsylvania portion, is referred to as the Tri-State Area. The New York City television designated market area includes Pike County, Pennsylvania, for instance, Long Island can be divided into its South and North Shores and the East End. The Hudson Valley and Connecticut are sometimes grouped together and referred to as the Northern Suburbs, the geographical, cultural, and economic center of the metropolitan area is New York City, which consists of five boroughs, each of which is also a county of New York State. The five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, with a Census-estimated population of 8,550,405 in 2015, distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles, New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. Long Island is a located just off the northeast coast of the United States. Stretching east-northeast from New York Harbor into the Atlantic Ocean, the island comprises four counties, Kings and Queens to the west, then Nassau, North of the island is Long Island Sound, across which are the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Its population density is 5,571 inhabitants per square mile, Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world. Long Island is the most populated island in the United States, known especially for recreation, boating and miles of public beaches, including numerous town, county and state parks and Fire Island National Seashore. The East End of Long Island boasts open spaces for farmland, passenger rail access is provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Long Island Rail Road, one of the largest commuter railroads in the United States. Air travel needs are served by several airports – most notably Farmingdale-Republic Airport and Islip-MacArthur Airport, within Queens, it is home to John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, two of the three major airline hubs serving the New York City area
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Gaelic Park
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Since 1926 the grounds has been used as the venue for Gaelic sports in New York, and since its purchase by Manhattan College in 1991 it has hosted numerous American college athletic events. It has been given a few different names over time including Innisfail Park, but since the 1950s it has gone by its current name, Gaelic Park, the park includes a playing field and dance hall. In addition to hurling and football matches, a number of sporting events take place at Gaelic Park. There are also concerts and dances that feature Irish music both old and new, Gaelic Park was bought by the Gaelic Athletic Association of Greater New York in 1926. It started off as a rough pitch that served as a social center for the many Irish immigrants to The Bronx. With the absence of film centers and other entertainment complexes, hurling at the park was the main entertainment, the GAA ran the park for about 10 years until it was forced into bankruptcy, after which the city took over the land. The property was leased again in 1941 to John Kerry O’Donnell, who with the help of his family and friends ran the park, dance hall. For several years, it was called Croke Park after the key GAA park in Dublin, the park was taken over by Manhattan College in 1991, and currently goes under the official name of The Gaelic Park Sports Center. The college has kept up the traditions of Gaelic Park, as well as doing some significant renovations, and now uses it for home games of lacrosse, soccer. In early 2007, a $3 million renovation of Gaelic Park began, field Turf was laid out to replace the natural pitch, which made it more durable for both American and Gaelic sports. In addition, facilities for softball were improved, and the installation of stadium lighting made night games possible, list of Gaelic Athletic Association stadiums Gaelic Park
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Rose Hill Gymnasium
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Rose Hill Gymnasium is a 3, 200-seat multi-purpose arena on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in The Bronx, New York City, New York. The arena, which opened in 1925, is the oldest on-campus venue currently used primarily for a NCAA Division I basketball team, at the time it was built, it was one of the largest on-campus facilities in the country, earning it the nickname The Prairie. The Rose Hill Gymnasium has been the site of many college and high school basketball games, including the final high school game of Lew Alcindor. During World War II, it was used as a barracks. New York City Mayor Ed Koch lived in barracks for a time. As early as 1970 an effort, headed by famed Fordham alumnus Vince Lombardi, was made to build a new arena and this effort ended with Lombardis death and the move of head basketball coach Digger Phelps to the University of Notre Dame. Rose Hill Gym - Fordham University Athletics The Rose Hill Gym
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Van Cortlandt Park
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Van Cortlandt Park is a 1, 146-acre park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. The park, which is the citys third-largest, was named for the Van Cortlandt family and it was established in 1888 and now contains facilities for sports such as golf, cross-country running, and cricket. Contained within the park is the Van Cortlandt House Museum, the oldest surviving building in the Bronx, and the Van Cortlandt Golf Course, Van Cortlandt Park is owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. It is managed with assistance from the Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy, the forest in what is now Van Cortlandt Park has been around for 17,000 years, since the end of the Wisconsin glaciation. The Wiechquaskeck Lenapes were among the first recorded people to inhabit in the now referred to as Van Cortlandt Park. They settled in the area around the 14th or 15th centuries, the Lenapes used the geographic features of the area, such as Tibbetts Brook for fishing and flatland areas for farming, to support their community. The strip of land on the Hudson Rivers east bank, between the current-day Spuyten Duyvil Creek and Yonkers, was sold to the Dutch West India Company in the early 17th century, adriaen van der Donck, a Dutch settler, bought the land from the company in 1646. Van der Donck also paid the Indian chief Tacharew, whose tribe used to live on the land and he named the land Colen Donck and built a house upon the land. The house was built between current-day Van Cortlandt Lake and Broadway and it faced south, probably because this was the location of a natural marshland. What is now the ground was used by van der Donck for farming. Upon van der Doncks 1655 death, the Indians launched an attack on the colony and this forced the settlers to flee back to Manhattan, including van der Doncks widow. Following the takeover of the New Netherland colony by the British in 1664, the claim to the estate was awarded to Hugh ONeale, the new husband of van der Doncks widow. In 1668, a portion of the land was sold to William Betts, an English turner, and his son-in-law George Tippett and this property included the modern park parade grounds. Next, Doughty sold a 2, 000-acre tract of land, including the current site of the Van Cortlandt House, to Frederick Philipse, Thomas Delavall, and Thomas Lewis. Philipse bought out Delavalls and Lewiss land shares, making the part of the Philipsburg Manor. Philipses wife died, and he remarried Olof Stevense Van Cortlandts daughter, Philipses daughter Eva later married Jacobus Van Cortlandt, who was Mrs. Philipses brother. The land that Van Cortlandt Park now occupies was acquired by Van Cortlandt from Philipse in the mid-to-late 1690s, in 1699, Van Cortlandt dammed Tibbetts Brook in order to power a sawmill, creating Van Cortlandt Lake as a mill pond in the process. In 1732, Van Cortlandt acquired a parcel from the Tippett family
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Yankee Stadium
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Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in the Concourse section of the Bronx, a borough of New York City. It serves as the ballpark for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. The $2.3 billion stadium, built with $1.2 billion in public subsidies and it is one block north of the original, on the 24-acre former site of Macombs Dam Park, the 8-acre site of the original stadium is now a public park called Heritage Field. Although Yankee Stadiums construction began in August 2006, the project spanned many years and faced many controversies, including the public cost. The overall price tag makes the new Yankee Stadium the most expensive ever built. It is also the home park for New York City FC of Major League Soccer. New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner began campaigning for a new stadium in the early 1980s, Steinbrenner at the time was reportedly considering a move to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey. Governor Thomas Kean in 1984 authorized the use of land for a new stadium in the Meadowlands. In a statewide referendum in 1987, New Jersey taxpayers rejected $185 million in financing for a baseball stadium for the Yankees. Despite the rejection from New Jersey, Steinbrenner frequently used a move there as leverage in negotiations with New York City. Steinbrenner agreed in principle, but then backed out of the deal, in 1993, Mayor David Dinkins expanded on Kochs proposal by offering his Bronx Center vision for the neighborhood, including new housing, a new courthouse, and relocating the Police Academy nearby. However, Cuomo lost his re-election bid a few months later, by 1995, Steinbrenner had rejected 13 proposals to keep the Yankees in the Bronx. That same year, Mayor Rudy Giuliani unveiled a plan to relocate the Yankees to the West Side Yard for a $1 billion stadium, however, with most of the funding coming from taxpayers, Giuliani tabled the proposal, fearing rejection in a citywide referendum. He estimated that both stadiums would cost $2 billion, with city and state taxpayers contributing $1.2 billion, at the time, Bloomberg said that publicly funded stadiums were a poor investment. Bloombergs blueprint for the stadium was unveiled in 2004, at the time as the plan for the Mets new stadium. The final cost for the two stadiums was more than $3.1 billion, taxpayer subsidies accounted for $1.8 billion, the Yankees continued to play in the previous Yankee Stadium during the 2007 and 2008 seasons while their new home stadium was built across the street. The community was left without parkland for five years, after the worker was exposed by co-workers, he was forced to help exhume the jersey. The worker has since claimed to have buried a 2004 American League Championship Series program/scorecard and these attempts didnt have much effect upon the home team, though, the Yankees went on to win the 2009 World Series at the end of their first MLB season in the new stadium. The new stadium is meant to evoke elements of the original Yankee Stadium, the exterior resembles the original look of the 1923 Yankee Stadium
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Aviator Sports and Events Center
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Located within Floyd Bennett Field, Aviator Sports and Events Center is an authorized Concessionaire of the National Park Service and New York’s largest sports and events center. Aviator has refurbished four historic aircraft hangars and surrounding grounds in partnership with the NPS, the area includes 175,000 square feet of indoor sports and event space along with adjoining outdoor turf fields and free parking for 2,000 cars. Aviator provides a variety of sports leagues and activities, including CrossFit, camps, birthday parties, field trips, ice skating, hockey, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, soccer. The NPS and Aviator began their relationship in 2003, by combining Floyd Bennett Field’s original hangars they created one of the largest sports complexes in the country. Aviator provides a variety of sports leagues and activities, including CrossFit, camps, birthday parties, field trips, ice skating, hockey, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, soccer. Since 2011, Aviator Sports and Events Center has become one of New York Citys most prominent locations for obstacle races, Aviator Sports and Events Center has also partnered with Reithoffer Shows to bring the Kings County Fair to Brooklyn annually since 2009
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Barclays Center
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Barclays Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The arena is part of a $4.9 billion future business, the arena is currently home to the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association and the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. The arena also hosts concerts, conventions and other sporting and entertainment events and it competes with other facilities in the New York metropolitan area, including Madison Square Garden in Manhattan and Prudential Center in Newark. The global recession of 2009 also caused financing for the project to dry up, as a result, the start of construction was delayed until 2010, with no secure funding for the project having been allotted. Groundbreaking for construction occurred on March 11,2010, and the arena opened to the public on September 21,2012 and it held its first event with a Jay-Z concert on September 28,2012. The arena and the Brooklyn Nets are currently owned by Mikhail Prokhorovs American holdings, the arena was conceived by Bruce Ratner of real estate developer Forest City Ratner Companies, the New York division of Forest City Enterprises that Ratner founded. The move had marked the return of league sports to Brooklyn. The arena was initially projected to open in 2006, with the rest of the Pacific Park Brooklyn complex to follow, due to these legal and financial troubles, the development deal seemed headed towards failure or collapse. Frank Gehry, an involved in the projects initial designs said, in March 2009, I dont think it is going to happen. The New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ratner on May 16,2009, a hearing for the appeal was scheduled for October 14,2009, with a decision to be issued no sooner than November 25. Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov agreed to a $200 million deal on September 23,2009, to become an owner of the Nets. The Nets played two games at Prudential Center in October 2009. The two preseason games were successful, and a deal that would have the Nets play at the Prudential Center for the 2010–11, negotiations nearly fell apart, when the New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority refused to release the Nets from their lease at Izod. Negotiations resumed, and on February 18,2010, the Nets finalized a deal that would move them to the Prudential Center in Newark, the New York Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the state using eminent domain for the project on November 24,2009. Empire State Development Corporation Vice President Warner Johnston indicated that the agency is committed to seeing the project completed, another potential roadblock to this development resulted from the Appellate Courts negative decision regarding a similar eminent domain case, brought against Columbia University. This landmark case could have new life to the case being brought by the community group Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn. Groundbreaking for the project occurred on March 11,2010, the first concrete was poured into Barclays Centers foundation on June 29,2010. The arena began construction on November 23,2010, with the erection of the first steel piece
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MCU Park
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MCU Park is a minor league baseball stadium in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York City, USA. The home team is the New York Mets-affiliated Brooklyn Cyclones of the New York–Penn League, the NYU Violets Baseball team began playing at MCU Park in 2015. As of 2017 MCU Park is also the home of the New York Cosmos Soccer Club of the NASL, official seating capacity is 7,000, though the Cyclones will sell up to 2,500 more standing room tickets. Prior to 2016, the capacity was 7,500 plus 2,500 standing room, features include a concourse with free-standing concession buildings and overhanging fluorescent lamps in different colors, evoking an amusement park atmosphere. In addition, the park overlooks the Atlantic Ocean as well as the famous Parachute Jump in right field, MCU Park is accessible via New York City Subway at the Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue subway station, served by the D F N Q trains. Part of a reinvestment in the Coney Island neighborhood, the park opened in 2001 with a capacity of 6,500. Demand for Cyclones tickets was so great that the team added 1,000 seats in a right-field bleacher pavilion within three weeks after the park opened. MCU Park prohibits fans from bringing food into the stadium, a policy in every minor league stadium. MCU Park and the Staten Island Yankees Richmond County Bank Ballpark were paid for public money. The parks naming rights were sold to KeySpan Energy, a utility company whose primary holding is the former Brooklyn Union Gas, however, in 2007, KeySpan was acquired by United Kingdom-based National Grid plc. On January 29,2010, the Cyclones announced that they had ended the deal with National Grid, on February 4,2010, it was announced that the Municipal Credit Union signed an agreement for the ballpark to be called MCU Park in an eleven-year naming rights deal. Following the 2015 season, a set of bleachers were removed, the Brooklyn Bolts played their home games at MCU Park during the 2014 and 2015 Fall Experimental Football League seasons before folding. In 2015, the New York University Violets moved in and made MCU Park their home stadium, in the process, they forced the St. Josephs College Bears to move out. Baruch College plays a few games at MCU Park, as do many high school teams, the park hosted a qualifying round for the 2017 World Baseball Classic in September 2016. Israel won the Qualifier over Great Britain, Brazil & Pakistan, in February 2017, the New York Cosmos officially announced they would host their home games at MCU Park for the 2017 NASL season. In 2003, Björk performed two shows at MCU park, August 22,2003 and August 23,2003, portions of these concerts appear in the Icelandic music documentary Screaming Masterpiece. The first concert was simulcast in theaters and in 2006, released as a concert album and DVD under the name Phish. In 2005, the hosted the Across the Narrows Festival along with Richmond County Bank Ballpark
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Generoso Pope Athletic Complex
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The Generoso Pope Athletic Complex, also known as The Pope, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is located on Remsen Street, between Court and Clinton Streets, within the St. Francis College campus, the Pope is named after Generoso Pope, an Italian immigrant who rose to prominence in New York City through his entrepreneurship and charity. The Pope is composed of three levels, on the level is the Aquatics Center, above it is the Daniel Lynch Gymnasium. Each level hosts different NCAA Division I sports for St. Francis College, as such, The Pope is the core of St. Francis Colleges athletic facilities. The Daniel Lynch Gymnasium is the centerpiece of The Pope and it hosts the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams games, the Gymnasium has a capacity of 1,200 seats and hosts nationally and regionally televised games. It has one of the smallest capacities in Division I basketball and is the smallest in the Northeast Conference, for the 2014-15 mens basketball season, total attendance was 18,882 across 17 games for an average of 1,111 per game. The Gymnasium is named after alumnus Daniel J. Lynch, who coached the Terriers for 21 years, the teams play on Peter Aquilone Court, which was named after Peter Aquilone, the son of former Athletic Director and St. Francis alumnus Edward Aquilone, ’60. The court was dedicated to Peter Aquilone on December 1,2004, the Aquatics Center has a competition-sized pool. It is home to the nationally ranked Men’s Water Polo team which has three NCAA Final Four appearances, the Women’s Water Polo Team and home meets for the College’s Swimming and Diving Teams. During the off season and away games the pool is open to all students and is used by the surrounding community. The Genovesi Center is a recent 9,000 square-foot addition to The Pope and was built on top of the Daniel Lynch Gymnasium in 2003, the Genovesi Center was named for former state Assemblyman Anthony J. Genovesi. The Genovesi Center hosts the Terriers Women’s Volleyball games and is used for intramural games. Different locations at The Pope have been used for backdrops to various scenes for film, the pool has been used to film scenes for the movie Across the Universe and the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords. The Peter Aquilone Court has been used for filming by the Late Show with David Letterman, in 2011, attending a Terriers game was named one reason to love New York by New York Magazine in their seventh annual Reasons to Love New York 2011 piece
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Paramount Theatre (Brooklyn)
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The Paramount Theatre is a former movie palace located at 1 University Plaza at the intersection of Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues in downtown Brooklyn, New York. Originally opened in 1928, the building has been owned by Long Island University since 1962, converted for use by LIU as classroom space and a gymnasium, the building retains much of the theaters original decorative detail. Until recently the venue was operated as a 1200-seat multi-purpose arena and it is now in the planning stages of a renovation to reopen the theater as a performing arts venue in 2018. The Paramount Theatre, built in 1928 by Paramount Pictures, was designed by the Chicago theater architect team Rapp and Rapp, a sister Paramount Theatre was located in Times Square, Manhattan. The rococo-designed theater had 4,084 seats covered in burgundy velvet, a 60-foot stage curtain was decorated with satin-embroidered pheasants, along with huge chandeliers and fountains with goldfish. Duke Ellington first played at the Paramount in 1931, according to the biography De Keizer van het Jiddische Lied it was in 1943 that singer Leo Fuld introduced the Yiddish music on this stage. In the 1950s, Alan Freed’s rock ‘n’ roll shows played at the theater, with acts including Chuck Berry, buddy Holly played a show in September 1957. When Alan Freed fell victim of the scandal, TV host Clay Cole continued the ten-day holiday show tradition. The last live rock n roll stage show at The Brooklyn Paramount was Clay Coles Easter Parade of Stars headlining Jackie Wilson, the Wurlitzer organ in the Brooklyn Paramount has 2,000 pipes and 257 stops, and continues to be used at LIU sporting events. Anthropology/Sociology Professor Dr. Michael Hittman presented a seminar, a one-credit cross-linked course with emphisis on rock n roll on March 27,2009. Clay Cole was the speaker and hosted panel discussions on the connections between rock n roll and the historic Paramount Theatre. The seminar concluded with a 90-minute doo wop show, with artists, in 1962 the Paramount Theatre was converted by Long Island University for various uses. The auditorium was adapted as a gymnasium, now called the Arnold, the Brooklyn Paramount building was renamed Metcalfe Hall by LIU after the Universitys first president, Tristram Walker Metcalfe. The former Paramount was the home of the LIU Blackbirds basketball team until 2005, the Northeast Conference mens basketball tournament was held here three times. In April 2015, LIU announced a 49-year lease of the Paramount to a controlled by Bruce Ratner and Mikhail Prokhorov, owners of the Barclays Center. An extensive renovation costing about $50 million, overseen by the firm of Hugh Hardy, is planned to convert the back to a theater for live events. Many of the original Rapp & Rapp architectural details remain and are to be preserved, the renovation is expected to take two to three years
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Steinberg Wellness Center
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The Steinberg Wellness Center, formally known as the Wellness, Recreation and Athletic Center, is a 2, 500-seat multi-purpose arena in Brooklyn, New York. It was built in 2006 and is home to the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds mens basketball team, the Blackbirds previously played their home games at the Schwartz Athletic Center. The Steinberg Wellness Center hosted the finals of the 2011 Northeast Conference mens basketball tournament, following President David Steinbergs retirement in Spring 2013, the WRAC was renamed the Steinberg Wellness Center to honor his 27-year tenure as President
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Chelsea Piers
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Chelsea Piers is a series of piers in Chelsea, on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The piers replaced a hodgepodge of run-down waterfront structures with a row of grand buildings embellished with pink granite facades, the piers are currently used by the Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex. In addition there is a center, a golf club with multi-story driving range. Sky Rink has the only ice skating rinks in Manhattan. Historically, the term Chelsea Piers referred to the luxury liner berths on Manhattans west side from 1910 to the 1930s, with ocean liners such as the Titanic becoming bigger and bigger, New York City was looking for a new passenger ship dock in the early 1900s. The Army, which controls the location and size of piers, ship lines were reluctant to build north of 23rd Street because infrastructure was already in place, including the High Line railway line and a train station near the river at 23rd Street. New York City solved the problem in a way by actually taking away a block of land that was the 1837 landfill that extended Manhattan to 13th Avenue. The controversial decision included condemning many businesses, the city was unable to condemn the West Washington Street Market and was left to remain landfill. The market ultimately closed and the dock was converted to a facility that was used to load garbage barges headed for the Fresh Kills Landfill. The only section of 13th Avenue that remains is behind the sanitation facility, the landfill is now called the Gansevoort Peninsula. The new piers were designed by the firm of Warren and Wetmore. Most of the major trans-Atlantic liners of the day docked at the piers and they played pivotal roles in the RMS Titanic, the two most memorable moments for the pier were with the Lusitania and Titanic. The RMS Lusitania left her Cunard Pier 54 in 1915 before being torpedoed by German submarine U-20, the RMS Titanic was destined for the White Star pier 59 when she sank. Survivors were rescued on Cunards RMS Carpathia, the Carpathia dropped off the Titanics lifeboats at Pier 59 before going back south to Pier 54 where she unloaded the passengers and survivors. Thousands of people assembled at the dock to greet the ship, during the summer of 1920, a dramatic rally was organized on July 31 at the White Star Line docks. A reported 15,000 New Yorkers turned up at Pier 60 at the foot of West 20th street to make sure Lloyd George would allow Mannix passage to Ireland, a luxury liner row was built between West 44th and West 52nd Street to handle larger liners in the 1930s. During World War II the piers were used to deploy troops, the piers had catastrophic fires in 1932 and 1947 that destroyed some of the south piers. New construction resulted in new cargo piers used by the United States Lines, in July 1936, the Chelsea Piers were the point of departure for Jesse Owens and the United States Olympic team as they left for the Summer Games in Berlin, Germany
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Columbia Soccer Stadium
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Commisso Soccer Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium located in Inwood, in the northernmost tip of the island of Manhattan, New York City, within the Baker Athletic Complex. It is home to the Columbia Lions soccer teams of Columbia University, and Old Blue RFC of USA Rugby Club 7s, American Rugby Premiership, commencing in May,2015, the stadium was to host home games of New York Red Bulls II of the United Soccer League. The stadium is adjacent to Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, the facility opened in 1985 and seats 3,500 people
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Icahn Stadium
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Icahn Stadium is a 5,000 seat track and field and multipurpose facility located on Randalls Island in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It features an International Association of Athletics Federations Class 1 certified running track with a 400-meter Mondo Super X Performance surface and it has been the site of many international, national, and regional track and field events. Icahn Stadium was built in replacement of Downing Stadium, the previous was originally opened in 1936 as part of a larger New York City Parks project that included the construction of the Triborough Bridge. The opening of Downing Stadium made history as the facility hosted the U. S. Olympic Trials in 1936, Downing Stadium also made history in 1939 as the site of the first televised college football game, Fordham vs. Waynesburg. The site went on to be home to the New York Cosmos soccer team, various sporting events, the stadium lights, which were taken from Ebbets Field after it was torn down, were left in place to light the new field. After years of use the old facility was in need of renovation, in order to maximize the potential of the site, the old stadium was razed and Icahn Stadium was constructed in its place along with Field 10, a FIFA-certified soccer field, on the north side. The track and field built is one of only five International Association of Athletics Federations Class 1-certified tracks in the United States, the 5,000 seat stadium is partially sheltered by a cantilevered roof and is illuminated by a pair of lighting towers. In addition, the field on the north of the stadium is outfitted with a scoreboard, fencing, lighting. Run by the Randalls Island Park Alliance, Icahn Stadium serves the residents of New York City and it houses some of RIPA’s various Randalls Island Kids programs including the Jesse Owens track club, RIK Dance programs, and components of RIK summer camp. RIPA was founded in 1992 as a partnership to work on behalf of Randalls Island Park. Since its opening, Icahn Stadium has hosted more than 200,000 high school, college and professional athletes, each year, the number of meets and events that are scheduled has grown, bringing larger numbers of people to the facility. In 2005 the Reebok Grand Prix was created and held at the stadium, currently known as the Adidas Grand Prix of the IAAF Diamond League, the annual summer tournament welcomes top runners from around the world. From its inception it has distinguished itself as one of top meets to feature Olympic and World Champions. On June 9,2012, Kenyan runner David Rudisha set the record in the 800m in the U. S. with a time of 1,41.74 seconds at the Adidas Grand Prix. In December 2012 the New York Lizards of Major League Lacrosse announced that the team would play two games at Icahn Stadium for the 2013 season. The team played at the venue on June 6 and 13,2013, on June 27,2013, the New York Cosmos revealed that their annual Cosmos Copa NYC soccer tournament would hold its final at the stadium, as many of the games were held at Randalls Island. Due to scheduling issues, the final was relocated, however, the site was used as a venue for the 2014 Cosmos Copa group stages. Icahn Stadium was incorporated as a training center into the New York City bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, future New York City Olympic bids will also potentially use the stadium as a training facility since it already meets IAAF specifications
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John McEnroe Tennis Academy
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The John McEnroe Tennis Academy is a tennis academy founded by tennis Hall of Famer John McEnroe in New York City. The Academy was founded in September 2010, on a 20-court $18 million tennis complex, designed by Ricardo Zurita, McEnroe launched the Academy in collaboration with Claude Okin, managing partner of Sportime New York. McEnroes teaching philosophy emphasizes short intense periods of tennis training balanced by plenty of time pursuing other sports, alumni include Noah Rubin, who won the Boys Singles tournament at Wimbledon in July 2014, and the 2014 U. S. Tennis Association’s Boys 18s National Championships in both singles and doubles the following month, is a product of the Academy, business Week, September 4,2012 John McEnroe Talks About the John McEnroe Tennis Academy, NBC, April 5,2014 Official website
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Madison Square Garden
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Madison Square Garden, often called MSG or simply The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station. The Garden is used for basketball and ice hockey, as well as boxing, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling and other forms of sports. It is close to other midtown Manhattan landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Koreatown and it is home to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, and residency to singer-songwriter Billy Joel. The Garden opened on February 11,1968, and is the oldest major sporting facility in the New York metropolitan area and it is the oldest arena in the National Hockey League and the second-oldest arena in the National Basketball Association. MSG is the fourth-busiest music arena in the world in terms of sales, behind The O2 Arena. At a total construction cost of approximately $1.1 billion and it is part of the Pennsylvania Plaza office and retail complex. Several other operating entities related to the Garden share its name, Madison Square is formed by the intersection of 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in Manhattan. It was named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States, two venues called Madison Square Garden were located just northeast of the square, the first from 1879 to 1890, and the second from 1890 to 1925. The first Garden, leased to P. T. Barnum, had no roof and was inconvenient to use during inclement weather, Madison Square Garden II was designed by noted architect Stanford White. The new building was built by a syndicate which included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, P. T. Barnum, Darius Mills, James Stillman and W. W. Astor. It was 200 feet by 485 feet, and the main hall and it had a 1, 200-seat theatre, a concert hall with a capacity of 1,500, the largest restaurant in the city and a roof garden cabaret. A third Madison Square Garden opened in a new location, on 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, from 1925 to 1968, groundbreaking on the third Madison Square Garden took place on January 9,1925. Designed by the theater architect Thomas W. Lamb, it was built at the cost of $4.75 million in 249 days by boxing promoter Tex Rickard. The arena was 200 feet by 375 feet, with seating on three levels, and a capacity of 18,496 spectators for boxing. Demolition commenced in 1968 after the opening of the current Garden and it finished up in early 1969, and the site is now where One Worldwide Plaza is located. The new structure was one of the first of its kind to be built above the platforms of a railroad station. It was an engineering feat constructed by Robert E. McKee of El Paso, public outcry over the demolition of the Pennsylvania Station structure—an outstanding example of Beaux-Arts architecture—led to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium
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Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium is a stadium in the Inwood neighborhood at the northern tip of the island of Manhattan, New York City. Part of Columbia Universitys Baker Athletics Complex, it is used for American football, lacrosse. The stadium opened in 1984 and holds 17,100 people, the Baker Athletics Complex, originally Baker Field, is Columbias outdoor athletic complex. Previously, all teams had played on South Field, across 116th Street from Low Memorial Library. It was purchased for the university by financier George H. Baker for $700,000 in December 1921 and it was dedicated the following April, but it was not until 1923 that the team began playing there. A32, 000-seat wooden stadium was built on the site in 1928, this was in use until 1982, Wien opened on September 22,1984 with a loss to Harvard. The first home win at the stadium came on October 8,1988, the 10, 500-seat southeast stands were built first, the 6, 500-seat northwest stands opened two years later. The stadium is named for Lawrence Wien, class of 1925, after a $5 million donation by Robert Kraft, class of 1963, the field was named in his honor on October 13,2007. For the first 11 seasons, Wien Stadium had grass and then AstroTurf from 1995 to 2004, in April 2015, New York City FC of Major League Soccer was reported to be considering building a new stadium at the Baker Athletics Complex. The Lawrence A. Wien Stadium would be demolished and replaced by a 25,000 seat stadium to be used by both NYCFC and the Columbia Lions, Columbia Athletics Facilities, Lawrence A. Wien Stadium Baker Field history
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Fort Washington Avenue Armory
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The spacious third floor is home to the New Balance Track and Field Center, A 200-meter, six-lane banked mondo track, two large runways and sand pits, a pole vault pit, and a throws cage. The Center is widely regarded as one of the indoor track. When built in the early 20th century it was one of the first armories in New York City in the Neoclassical style, in 1995 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Three stories high, the Armory is constructed of brick on a foundation with limestone. The administration building is on an exposed basement, the drill shed only partially. Iron bars protect the windows on the basement and first floor, the roofline is marked by a corbeled cornice and parapet with terra cotta trim. The west facade features a projecting entrance pavilion flanked by four-bay sides. At the corners are square bastions with crenelated parapets in terra cotta, the entrance pavilion has octagonal bastions flanking smooth rusticated limestone voussoirs around a large sally port. Both side elevations have nine bays, with round-arched windows in the second and third stories. Some on both sets have been filled in, behind a wooden portcullis at the rear of the sally port is the entrance, three wooden doors inside a segmentally arched stone architrave capped with a console-style keystone. It is inscribed with the words22ND REGIMENT CORPS OF ENGINEERS NGNY, above it is a multi-pane transom. The interior retains much of its original finish, rooms have terrazzo floors, glazed brick walls trimmed in terracotta. The cross-vaulted ceilings are sheathed in tiles laid in patterns and have glazed terra cotta architraves at their entrances. There are bronze sconces throughout the building, a double-width staircase in fireproof steel and concrete has a curving rail. Its hallway is encircled with a frieze on which there are two remaining Works Progress Administration murals. At the north and south ends of the building are two large company meeting rooms. The south one features a dado, beamed ceilings, hardwood floors. The north meeting room features paneled wainscoting, built-in trophy cases
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Aqueduct Racetrack
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Aqueduct Racetrack is a Thoroughbred horse-racing facility and racino in South Ozone Park, Queens, New York City. Its racing meets usually are from late October/early November through April, the track was named Aqueduct after the former Ridgewood Aqueduct. The facility was expanded and a new clubhouse was constructed before the 1941 summer meet, the Equestris Restaurant in the clubhouse opened in 1981 and was the largest restaurant in New York City at the time. Additional renovations were made in 2001,2006, and 2007, currently, one annual meeting is held at Aqueduct, usually from the last Wednesday in October until the first Sunday in May. Races had been run on the Inner Dirt Track between the Wednesday after Thanksgiving until just before the Wood Memorial in recent years, prior to 1977, a summer meeting also was held at Aqueduct, from mid-June to late July. From 1963 through 1967, races run at Belmont Park. The Wood Memorial is Aqueducts the marquee race, which culminates the winter meet, the Remsen and Cigar Mile are major races that begin the winter meet. The track played host to the second ever Breeders Cup on November 2,1985, Aqueduct is the site of the first, and presently, the only triple dead heat for win in a stakes race. In the 1944 running of the Carter Handicap, Brownie, Bossuet, hall of Fame horse Cigar won the first two races in his 16-race win streak at Aqueduct. On May 31,1965,73,375 spectators were on hand at Aqueduct, at the time, it was the largest crowd to ever attend a thoroughbred horse racing event in New York. Champion racehorse Secretariat was retired here before the public on November 6,1973 and he was paraded for the last time to the public and took his last steps on a racetrack here. He was then sent to stud at Claiborne Farm, pope John Paul II celebrated Mass in front of a crowd of 75,000 at Aqueduct on October 6,1995. Every weekend including Tuesdays, a market was operating in the racetracks north parking lot. Aqueduct Flea Market offers a hodgepodge of goods, like bedding, incense and pots, pans and it was opened Tuesdays and weekends year-round for 33 years. This Aqueduct Flea Market, as of 2011, is permanently closed, Belmont Park would have been modified to handle winter requirements which would have included heated stands and the construction of new stables. Aqueduct traditionally has been considered a track frequented by blue collar fans while Belmont Park has a more upscale reputation, Queens Democratic state assemblywoman Audrey I. Pheffer, whose district included Aqueduct, fought the closing of the track which she felt was important to the local community. Any closure at Aqueduct, which is equipped for the winter months, would have required millions of dollars in renovations at Belmont
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Carnesecca Arena
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Carnesecca Arena is a 5, 602-seat multi-purpose arena in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. It was built in 1961 and renamed in honor of Hall of Fame Coach Lou Carnesecca on November 23,2004, the building hosted first round games of the NCAA mens basketball tournament from 1970 to 1974. Up until March 2014, it was the last place in New York City that the tournament was held
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Citi Field
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Citi Field is a stadium located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. Completed in 2009, it is the baseball park of Major League Baseballs New York Mets. Citi Field was built as a replacement for the formerly adjacent Shea Stadium, Citi Field was designed by Populous, and is named after Citigroup, a New York financial services company which purchased the naming rights. The $850 million baseball park was funded with $615 million in public subsidies, the payments will offset property taxes for the lifetime of the park. The Mets are receiving $20 million annually from Citibank in exchange for naming the stadium Citi Field, the entire public cost is being borne by city and state taxpayers in New York. The first game at Citi Field was on March 29,2009, the Mets played their first two games at the ballpark on April 3 and April 4,2009 against the Boston Red Sox as charity exhibition games. The first regular home game was played on April 13,2009. Citi Field hosted the 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, marking the time the Mets have hosted the event. The stadium will host the 2018 NHL Winter Classic between the New York Rangers and the Buffalo Sabres, since the 1990s, the Mets had been looking to replace Shea Stadium. It had originally built as a multi-purpose stadium in 1964. The Mets also considered moving to Mitchel Field or Belmont Park in Nassau County, Long Island, Sunnyside Yard in Queens, or the West Side Yard in Manhattan. In December 2001, shortly before leaving office, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced tentative agreements for both the Mets and New York Yankees to build new stadiums. Of the $1.6 billion sought for the stadiums, city and state taxpayers would pick up half the tab for construction, $800 million, along with $390 million on extra transportation. The teams would keep 96% of ticket revenues and 100% of all revenues, not pay sales tax or property tax on the stadium. Business officials criticized the plan as giving too much money to successful teams with little reason to move to a different city, at the time, Bloomberg said that publicly funded stadiums were a poor investment. Under Bloomberg, the New York City government would offer public financing for infrastructure improvements. Bloomberg called the former mayors agreements corporate welfare, the final plans for what is now Citi Field were created as part of the New York City 2012 Olympic bid. After plans for a West Side Stadium fell through, New York looked for a stadium to host the opening and closing ceremonies and track
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Metropolitan Oval
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The Metropolitan Oval, also known as Met Oval, is a soccer complex located in Maspeth, Queens in New York City. In addition, the Metropolitan Oval is a U. S, the Metropolitan Oval Academy and facility is led by an all-volunteer Board of Directors. Filippo Giovagnoli serves as Technical Director of the Academy, the Metropolitan Oval was originally built in 1925 by Germans and ethnic German-Hungarian immigrants to be a European style soccer field with facilities. From 1925 onwards, the Oval served as a field for men. Many U. S. national team players from the New York region played games at the Oval while youths, by the 1990s, however, the Oval was in a state of disarray. Any grass the field once had was gone from overuse and it owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes and was scheduled for foreclosure by the city. In response to state of affairs, the Metropolitan Oval Foundation was formed to save this historic site. Soccer Foundation each contributed $250,000 towards the construction of a FieldTurf field, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who visited the Met Oval in November 2001 after the field was resurfaced, called FieldTurf the future of football. Currently, the Oval hosts 3-5 games a week from March to November on the field, the Met Oval Academy plays at this field against other academy teams in the Northeast Preacademy League. Academies objectives are to develop young, talented players to play in leagues around the world. The Met Oval has teams in age groups ranging from U-6 to U-14, the Academy is run by Emmy nominated dancer, singer, actor, director, and producer Jeffery Saunders
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USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
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It is operated by the United States Tennis Association. The facility has 22 courts inside its 46.5 acres and 11 in the adjoining park, the complexs three stadia are among the largest tennis stadia in the world, with Arthur Ashe Stadium topping the global list with a listed capacity of 23,200. All 33 courts have used the DecoTurf cushioned acrylic surface since the facility was built in 1978. Located near Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, on August 28,2006, the USTA National Tennis Center was rededicated as the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The idea of the center came about in January 1977, when W. E. Slew Hester. He asked the City of New York to let him use the stadium, the stadium was heavily renovated and divided into two venues, Louis Armstrong Stadium and the adjoining grandstand. The National Tennis Center opened in August 1978, after rumors of a possible move to San Diego, a major upgrade and expansion began in March 1995. More land was committed to the USTA National Tennis Center, the four-year expansion was completed in 1999. Arthur Ashe Stadium holds more than 22,000 spectators while Louis Armstrong Stadium was downsized to hold just 10,000 spectators. In 2006, at the location of the old indoor tennis building near the East Gate, work began on a 245, 000-square-foot, the new facility was completed in 2008 and includes 12 courts, classrooms, fitness facilities, and a pro shop. It also includes a hospitality center, museum, and food commissary, other renovations included the players’ lounge, locker rooms, and medical, training and office space. In 2011, the facility opened a new court, Court 17, located in the southeast corner of the grounds, seating 2,500 to 3,000. In constructing the new court, foundations from the 1939 and 1964 Worlds Fair were discovered, because the playing surface of Court 17 is below ground level, the new court has received the nickname of The Pit. As part of a renovation, a new show court was added in the southwest corner of the complex - the new Grandstand. This 8,125 seat stadium, which opened in 2016, is the third largest stadium in the center, and replaces the Old Grandstand, which will be torn down when Louis Armstrong Stadium is replaced in 2018. The center is in the middle of a $550 million renovation in that includes a roof constructed on Arthur Ashe Stadium. The game itself was an event as it was the first ever professional basketball regular season game ever played outdoors in the USA. The contest featured the Indiana Fever defeating the New York Liberty, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is the site of the annual New York State High School tennis championships, held in May
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Arthur Ashe Stadium
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Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis stadium located in the Queens borough of New York City. After suffering successive years of event delays from inclement weather, a new retractable roof was completed in 2016. The stadium is named after Arthur Ashe, winner of the 1968 inaugural US Open, opening in 1997, the facility replaced Louis Armstrong Stadium as the primary venue for the tournament. Like the other 32 courts in the facility, it has a DecoTurf cushioned acrylic surface, on July 19,2008, the stadium hosted the first ever regular season WNBA game to be played outdoors when the WNBA Indiana Fever beat the host New York Liberty, 71–55. The game served as an event for breast cancer research. The facility features a Hawk-Eye electronic system which allows players to challenge the umpires decision on calls made throughout championships. In 2005, the scheme for the courts was changed from green to electric blue inner courts. All US Open Series events now use this scheme, providing television viewers a more easily trackable ball — with the yellow tennis balls contrasting more visibly against the blue courts. Notably, the site of the Ashe center featured poor soil conditions and it had previously been Manhattans Corona Ash Dumps and prior to that a natural wetland swamp. For the new roof, a light solution was critical. The stadium is not fully conditioned, a new chilled water system controls humidity when the roof closed. The roof, which cost $100 million, was part of a $550 million renovation of the National Tennis Center, the retractable roof project was completed in 2016. The roof was designed by Rossetti Architects and its structure was designed by WSP Global, geiger Engineers Performed preliminary design of the mechanization system. Hardesty & Hanover was Engineer of Record for the mechanization system, list of tennis stadiums by capacity Ashe Stadium Seating Chart
