New York Coliseum (1928)

New York Coliseum

Former names	Bronx Coliseum Starlight Park Stadium
Address	1100 East 177th Street New York City United States
Owner	City of New York
Capacity	16,800 (seated) +2,000 (chairs on field) +2,000 (standing room)

The New York Coliseum also known as the Bronx Coliseum and Starlight Park Stadium, is a defunct sports venue and auditorium in the West Farms section of the Bronx, New York City. The 105,000-square-foot (9,800 m²) auditorium was originally built for Philadelphia's 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition, and transported in 1928 to Starlight Park at 177th Street and Devoe Avenue.

The 16,800-seat^[1] edifice was used for circuses, boxing, political rallies, opera, and midget auto racing. The Coliseum hosted the defunct Eastern Hockey League's Bronx Tigers franchise for two seasons, 1933–34, and 1937–38. In late 1939, it was the home of the New York Giants of the short-lived National Professional Indoor Baseball League.

The United States Army controlled the building from 1942 through 1946, after which it was used by New York City Transit Authority buses as the Coliseum Depot.^[2] In 1995, the Transit Authority closed the depot and demolished it in 1997. A new building was constructed on the site, incorporating some of the façade of the Coliseum Depot. It opened in 2003 as the West Farms Bus Depot.^[3]

References

• Ritter, Lawrence S. (1998), "Bronx Coliseum", East Side: West Side, Total Sports, pp. 12–15, ISBN 0965694968

External links

• 1937 photograph of coliseum showing official name of New York Coliseum on roof
• 1929 photograph of Ringling Brothers Circus at Coliseum

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