Polo Grounds
Polo Grounds III and IV
The final iteration of the Polo Grounds was demolished in 1964, beginning in April with the same wrecking ball bomb (painted to look like a baseball) that had been used four years earlier on Ebbets Field. The wrecking crew wore Giants jerseys and tipped their hard hats to the historic stadium as they began dismantlement. It took a crew of 60 workers more than four months to level the structure. The Indians' bus passed the site in the midst of demolition while Cleveland was playing the Yankees; Dick Donovan, eyeing the rubble, remarked, "Boy, they must have had a helluva game there last night." The site is now home to the Polo Grounds Towers, a public housing project opened in 1968 and managed by the New York City Housing Authority.
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