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Get ready to unleash your inner Kristi Yamaguchi. It’s time to grab your mittens and book it to one of these 10 rinks (plus an ice-free skating option for your littlest ones) for an afternoon or ...
Union Square [48] Street skating: Union Square, Active: Limited access due to policing and crowds Wallenberg Set [49] street skating: Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School, 37*46'48.86"N, 122*26'46.82"W: Active: Waller Ledges: DIY/official skatepark
Union Square around the turn of the 20th century The square in 1968, as seen from the St. Francis Hotel. Union Square was originally a large sand dune, and the square was later set aside to be made into a public park in 1850. Union Square got its name from the pro-Union rallies held there on the eve of the Civil War.
Embarcadero Center sits on a 9.8-acre (4.0 ha) site largely bounded by Clay Street (to the north), Sacramento Street (to the south), Battery Street (to the west), and the Embarcadero (to the east), in the financial district of San Francisco. [1] The 4.8-million-square-foot (450,000 m 2) complex accommodates offices for 14,000 people along with ...
The Ice Theatre of New York is a professional ensemble company dancing on ice, performing works by choreographers drawn from competitive figure skating and modern and contemporary dance. Aiming to create dance on ice as part of the modern performing arts scene, [ 1 ] Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY) was first conceived by Marc Bogaerts , Marjorie ...
At the time of its construction, Sunvalley Shopping Center was said to be the largest air-conditioned regional shopping center in the world. [2] Developed by A. Alfred Taubman, [3] the shopping center opened on August 5, 1967 with a performance by Tony Martin and is 1,333,000 feet (406,000 meters) on two floors.
The New York Silver Skates started as an outdoor meet, [4] and were sometimes disrupted by warm weather. The tenth edition, initially held on 18 January 1931, was stopped three laps into the Men's senior race as the ice was looking increasingly dangerous, with Herbert Taylor leading in front of a reported 40,000. [ 11 ]
The St. Nicholas Rink, also called the St. Nicholas Arena, was an indoor ice rink, and later a boxing arena in New York City from 1896 until 1962. The rink was one of the earliest indoor ice rinks made of mechanically frozen ice in North America (others included the North Avenue Ice Palace in Baltimore and the Ice Palace in New York, both opened in 1894), enabling a longer season for skating ...