Credit: worthpoint.com. Noticed the rink had flat roof. All wood floor on rink and off rink only separated by water pipe steel rail. It had colorful ceiling of red and blue.
Bay Ridge Roller Rink, 62nd St & 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Bay Ridge was operated in Brooklyn, New York. It was near Interstate 278 and near the former Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters in Brooklyn. It was set in the Chinatown district as proven in Google Map. There are not a whole lot of information at all although it is all over the internet that people said they skated there. The map showed on street level that it is a Chinatown area. Likely it was located where the hardware store or building supply store is currently located. I am not sure.
The only thing there is a postcard. Not much to go on.
The exterior was more likely that building supply store location and the color was unknown. It had heavy retrofitted for the building supplier vendor. Color is unknown. Photos of its hey day as a rink are needed!
So are for the interior because the illustration was in a bit terrible perspective. It was not perfectly semi-circle of the rail. Look carefully and you will see it was out of perspective. (I have 40 plus years of drafting experience since age 8). Also the sunroofs were not perfectly level to the ceiling either. Yes, it appeared to be sunroofs as natural lights. If that was the case, they were many years advanced with this concept.
Only I have an opening year of 1939 according to The Billboard (news magazine) Jan 24, 1942 but did not say anything more than that. Closure is unknown.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Wood Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: 1939?
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Warehouse Building.
Roof: N/A
Acres: N/A
Operated: 1939 to ?
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information and photos.
Sources: FRRP, Worth Point, and Atlasobsura.com
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Bay Ridge was operated in Brooklyn, New York. It was near Interstate 278 and near the former Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters in Brooklyn. It was set in the Chinatown district as proven in Google Map. There are not a whole lot of information at all although it is all over the internet that people said they skated there. The map showed on street level that it is a Chinatown area. Likely it was located where the hardware store or building supply store is currently located. I am not sure.
The only thing there is a postcard. Not much to go on.
The exterior was more likely that building supply store location and the color was unknown. It had heavy retrofitted for the building supplier vendor. Color is unknown. Photos of its hey day as a rink are needed!
So are for the interior because the illustration was in a bit terrible perspective. It was not perfectly semi-circle of the rail. Look carefully and you will see it was out of perspective. (I have 40 plus years of drafting experience since age 8). Also the sunroofs were not perfectly level to the ceiling either. Yes, it appeared to be sunroofs as natural lights. If that was the case, they were many years advanced with this concept.
Only I have an opening year of 1939 according to The Billboard (news magazine) Jan 24, 1942 but did not say anything more than that. Closure is unknown.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Wood Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: 1939?
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Warehouse Building.
Roof: N/A
Acres: N/A
Operated: 1939 to ?
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information and photos.
Sources: FRRP, Worth Point, and Atlasobsura.com
© 2019 - 2020 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.