Bloomingdale Park
Bloomingdale Parkis a 138-acre (56 ha) park on theSouth ShoreofStaten Island.It is located in thePrince's Bayneighborhood, and is bounded on the north by Ramona Avenue, on the west by Bloomingdale Road, on the east by Lenevar Avenue, and on the south by Drumgoole Road West and theKorean War Veterans Parkway.It is nearly bisected by Maguire Avenue, but the avenue's two spurs into the park from the north and south do not meet in the middle.
Beginning in February 2003 15 acres (6.1 ha) of park were renovated and upgraded with the addition of sports fields, walking and biking paths, a playground and rest center at the corner of Ramona and Lenevar Avenues which serves residents in the western portion of Woodrow. On the corner of Maguire Avenue and Drumgoole Road West, there is also a small pond habitat which was made accessible by a footpath. All the recent renovations took place to east of Maguire Avenue, and west of there remains untouched woodlands.[1]
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Bloomingdale Parkwas also the name of a public park inManhattanin the 1800s. It was located in theKips Bayneighborhood, at31st StreetandFirst Avenue,on land now occupied by theNew York University Medical Center(close to40°44′31″N73°58′29″W/ 40.7419°N 73.9748°W). It was on that site that thefirst internationalcricketmatch was held, between teams representing the United States and Canada, in the early fall of 1844.[2][3][4]
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- ^"$20m Staten Island park completed". Real Estate Weekly. 2004-09-29.
- ^"The oldest international contest of them all".Cricinfo.Retrieved2009-08-08.
- ^"Cricket in Times Square".DreamCricket. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-07-26.Retrieved2009-08-08.
- ^Rivera, Raf Noboa y (March 28, 2015)."How Philadelphia became the unlikely epicenter of American cricket".The Guardian.Retrieved2022-11-21.
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