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Coogan's Bluff is a high promontory above the Harlem River in Washington Heights, with Coogan's Hollow lying at its base. Named for developer and Manhattan Borough President James J. Coogan, it became inseparable from New York sports history because the Polo Grounds stood in the hollow from 1890 until April 1964. The New York Giants played baseball there until leaving after the 1957 season, and the Yankees, football Giants, Mets, and Titans or Jets also used the stadium. Coogan family ownership of the land complicated modernization and helped drive the baseball Giants west. Surviving stairways and a home-plate plaque recall the vanished ballpark.
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