Boyle's Thirty Acres
Boyle's Thirty Acres was a large wooden bowl arena in
Background
Other notable boxing cards
Boyle's Thirty Acres was used for a number of
Demise
By 1927, most major title bouts in the New York area were being held either at Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds. Rickard announced that the wooden arena would be demolished and in June 1927 the wrecking ball brought the short history of Boyle's Thirty Acres to an end.
Site
By 1952, the site of Boyle's Thirty Acres had become a Jersey City housing project named Montgomery Gardens. After over 50 years of use, the project began to be emptied and the Jersey City Housing Authority planned to demolish the buildings in order to build mixed-use housing. [6] Three of the six buildings were imploded in August 2015, and one was rehabilitated and converted to senior housing.[7][8]
References
- ^ "Dempsey-Carpentier Fight Boyle's Thirty Acres at the Montgomery Oval". Jersey City Past and Present. New Jersey City University. 2007. Archived from the original on June 20, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
- ^ Hortillosa, Summer Dawn (October 8, 2011). "Author discusses 'Battle of the Century' between boxers Dempsey, Carpentier in Jersey City". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
- ^ Blumberg, Dorothy Rose (1969). Whose What?. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 25.
- ^ "Four Champions in Ring on Labor Day". The New York Times. August 29, 1921. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
- ^ "NJ Boxing hall of Fame:Braddock's record". NJBoxingHOF.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
- ^ Grundy, J. Owen (1975). "Towards Modern Times". The History of Jersey City (1609–1976). Jersey City: Walter E. Knight; Progress Printing Company. p. 61.
- ^ McDonald, Terrence T. (August 25, 2015). "Jersey City to implode 62-year-old public-housing towers". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
- ^ Lin, Jonathan (August 29, 2015). "PHOTOS: Jersey City implodes 62-year-old public housing towers". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
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