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The article "Coogans Bluff and the Polo Grounds," chronicles the baseball, football, and boxing matches that were played at the no-longer-extant stadium called the Polo Grounds on 155th Street. View A history of Columbia University Medical Center and describes the role of its location in both the history of the New York Yankees and the history of evangelical preaching in New York. View Built on land that once belonged to the naturalist John James Audubon, the 24-acre Trinity Church Cemetery was built in 1842, when burials in Lower Manhattan were banned because of the belief that overcrowded burial grounds were responsible for some of the major epidemics of the day. Notables buried there include Clement Clark Moore, John Jacob Astor, and Eliza Jumel. View The Dyckman Oval, capacity 4,500, was used for New York's leading Negro baseball and semipro teams during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as for boxing and wrestling matches and motorcycle races. View The Little Red Lighthouse, made famous by the children's book of the same name, was moved to its current location in 1921 to keep boats off the dangerous shoals of Jeffrey's Hook. It was rendered obsolete when the George Washington Bridge was built. View Considered the Alamo of the American Revolution, the Battle of Fort Washington, fought in what is today Bennett Park, saw 2,800 ill-equipped Americans surrender to 9,000 British and Hessian soldiers. View In the Audubon Ballroom transit workers were organized, kings and queens of Harlem were chosen, and Malcolm X was shot dead on February 21, 1965. View |
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