Commisso Soccer Stadium

507 West 218th Street | also 501 West 218th Street | Inwood Hill Park | built 1985

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1984
August
Columbia opens Columbia Soccer Stadium at Baker Field
Columbia University opens a new $1 million, 3,500-seat soccer stadium at its Baker Athletics Complex in Inwood. The venue becomes home to the Lions' men's and women's soccer teams and women's lacrosse, and to the Old Blue rugby club. It is later renamed for Rocco B. Commisso, a co-captain of Columbia's 1970 varsity soccer team who went on to own the New York Cosmos and Mediacom.
Source: Wikipedia
1997
September
The stadium hosts a U.S. Open Cup semifinal between pro teams
Major League Soccer's MetroStars and Dallas Burn play a semifinal of the 1997 U.S. Open Cup at the Inwood stadium. Professional clubs return later: New York Red Bulls II play there part-time in 2015, and New York Cosmos B are tenants from 2017 to 2019.
Source: Wikipedia
2020
The soccer field becomes a 288-bed COVID-19 field hospital
NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center convert the soccer stadium and the adjacent Kraft Field into a 288-bed field hospital during the coronavirus pandemic. It is named for Navy SEAL Ryan F. Larkin (1987-2017), a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and is staffed mainly by former U.S. military personnel together with NewYork-Presbyterian's frontline staff.
Source: Wikipedia

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