Weekend, May 8-9, 2021 – TIME TO SHOP LOCALLY AT THE RIHS VISITOR CENTER

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WEEKEND, MAY 8-9 2021

The 358th Edition

MOTHER’S DAY SHOPPING

CELEBRATING WITH THE

R.I.H.S.

Let’s celebrate Mother with a gift from the Visitor Kiosk!

How about some good reading while the cookies are baking!

Some great fun for the youngest in the house!

Some reading on island history!

A mug for our morning coffee!

Ready for a ball game!

Our favorite Julia Gash goodies

 Some things for the dog lover!

Some reading about our neighbors in Queens!

Have some chuckles in the kitchen!

Some  pens and pencils to write the great New York novel!

We will be at the kiosk to welcome you this weekend 12 to 5 p.m.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!!

WEEKEND PHOTO OF THE DAY
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WE WILL HAVE ANSWER ON WEDNESDAY, SINCE WE ARE OFF THE ISLAND THIS WEEKEND!!

FRIDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

In 1925, the New York Giants shared a stadium with the New York Giants. No, the other New York Giants. Back in the golden age of baseball in New York, the city hosted three teams: the Yankees, the Dodgers and the Giants. But there was also the football Giants, and both Giants teams shared a stadium at the long-gone Polo Grounds. But by 1956, they moved to the larger Yankee Stadium until the team announced that it would play in a brand new stadium in New Jersey. So over the next three years, the Giants jumped from Yankee Stadium to the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., to Shea Stadium until finally moving to Giants Stadium in 1976.

THE ORIGINAL YANKEE STADIUM

ED LITCHER, ALEXIS VILLEFANE, HARA REISER, ANDY SPARBERG,JAY JACOBSON, M . FRANK,

FROM JAY JACOBSON:
Yankee Stadium — the original one— laid out for football. Constructed for the second team that Brooklyn Dodger Fans loathed, the stadium was Used occasionally for major college football games (Army — Notre Dame, I remember).  Later, in the late 1950s, the Stadium became the home for the New York Football Giants before that team moved to the New Jersey swamps. About 50 years ago, the Giants left New York and, by failing or refusing to change their name to the New Jersey Giants, insured the loss of a lifelong fan who now roots only for their opponents. (When the teams with New York names —Giants and Jets— play each other, I root for biblical rain storms to make conditions unbearable for the teams and for people going to support the apostates. ). At least when New York was deserted by the baseball Giants and Dodgers, those teams had the basic decency to adopt the names of the cities to which they had moved. No such luck in the football sphere. If you think I have a long sense of fury and outrage at having been abandoned, don’t get me wound up on the destruction of PS 87 and its replacement by a cleaner, newer, better elementary school building around the corner from Amsterdam Avenue and 77th Street.

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by  Deborah Dorff
Roosevelt Island Historical Society

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