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NYC Sports in Pop Culture: Maps to where the sports legends lived and hung out Babe Ruth lived at the Ansonia Hotel from 1920 to 1929 during his prime years with the Yankees. The Ansonia, now a cooperative, is a located at 2109 Broadway at 73rd-74th Street on the Upper West Side. 
Map 1 - Financial - West + East 
Map 1 - Financial - West
Map 1 - Financial - East
Map 2 - Village - West + East 
Map 2 - Village - West
Map 2 - Village - East
Map 3 - Midtown - West + East 
Map 3 - Midtown - West
Map 3 - Midtown - East
Map 4 - Plaza - West + East 
Map 4 - Plaza - West
Map 4 - Plaza - East
Map 5 - Central Park - West + East 
Map 5 - Central Park - West
Map 5 - Central Park - East
Map 6 - Boroughs - West + East 
Map 6 - Boroughs - West
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Map 6 - Boroughs - East
• LEGENDARY NEW YORK SPORTS FIGURES - RESIDENCES AND HANGOUTS NEW YORK SPORTS LEGENDS - RESIDENCES Tiki Barber (Giants) • 515 East 72nd Street b/t York and FDR Drive (football) Yogi Berra (Yankees) • 40 years at 19 Highland Avenue, Montclair, NJ (baseball) Tom Brady (New England Patriots) • 10 Columbus Circle (59th and Broadway) (Time Warner Center) (football) Bob Costas (Sportscaster) • 15 Central Park West b/t 61st and 62nd Sts. (sports announcer) Jack Dempsey (Boxing, Restaurateur) • The Ritz Carlton Hotel (1934-1935) then 112 Central Park South between 6th and 7th Avenue (boxer) Joe DiMaggio (Yankees) • Lived at 400 West End Avenue b/t 79th and 80th in 1941 during his 56 game streak • After his career was over, in the early fifties, he would stay at the Hotel Elysee - 60 East 54th St. between Madison and Park Avenue • During his 1954-1955 marriage to Marilyn Monroe they lived in suite 1806 at the Lexington Hotel - 511 Lexington Avenue at 48th Street. He would later live at the hotel from 1957 to 1962. Patrick Ewing (Knicks) • 174 Vaccaro Drive • Cresskill, NJ Walt Frazier (Knicks) • 381 Lenox Ave at West 129th Street. • Upper East Side Lou Gherig (Yankees) • 1) 9 Meadow Lane, New Rochelle • 2)5204 Delafield Avenue in Riverdale Frank Gifford (Giants, Sports Commentator) • 322 East 57th Street b/t 2nd Ave and 1st Ave (New York Giants) Derek Jeter (Yankees) • 845 U. N. Plaza (The Trump world Tower) - (i.e. 1st Ave bet 47-48th) (Yankees) Billy Jean King (Tennis) • 101 West 79th Street at Columbus Ave (Tennis) Joe Lewis (Boxing) • 1960's - Park Central Hotel - 870 Seventh Avenue b. 55-56th. (Boxer) Patrick McEnroe (Tennis) • 285 Lafayette Street at Jersey Street (Tennis) Don Maddingly (Yankees) • 230 Engle Street, Tenafly, NJ (Yankees) Mickey Mantle (Yankees) lived: • 1) at the Concourse Plaza Hotel (900 Grand Concourse at 161st Street) in the Bronx near Yankee Stadium. • 2) in an apartment over the stage deli at 834 7th Ave (between 53rd and 54th Streets) in the 1950's • 3) St Moritz Hotel at 50 Central Park South at 59th Street • 4) Lived with Roger Maris and Bob Cerv in Jackson Heights, Queens during the 1961 season. Willy Mays (Giants, Mets) • 1st floor apt on 80 St. Nicholas Placeb/y 153rd and 155th Street, HArlem Mark Messier (Rangers) • Lived at 205 West 57th (The Osborne) 1 rom apt • then an apt in. 29 West 85th St (Unit 3) brownstone 2006 Joe Namath (Jets) • 1968 - 370 East 76th Street near East End (late 60's while play Jets) • 1 West 72nd (The Dakota) at Central Park West Mike Piazza (Mets) • 161 Hudson Street at Laight Streett (Mets) Willis Reed (Knicks) • 1) 61-35 98th St. in Park City Estates, Rego Park, Queens. • 2) an apartment in Kip Bay after 1977 Phil Rizutto (Yankees) • 241 Windsor Way, Hillside, New Jersey (near Newark) • then 912 Westminster Avenue in Hillside NJ Jackie Robinson (Dodgers) • 1947-1949 - 5224 Tilden St. Brooklyn NY = a National Historic Landmark - • 1949-1955 112-40 177th St, Addisleigh Park, Queens • broke the color barrier of major league baseball - 1st African american in major league baseball. Sugar Ray Robinson (Boxer) • Mother's apartment 940 St, Nicholas Ave at West 157th St. • Sugar Ray's - 2074 7th Ave bet 123-124 (replaced) • He moved to LA in the `1960's Andy Roddick (Tennis) • 205 East 22nd street b/t 3rd and 2nd Aves.(Tennis) Alex Rodriguez (Yankees) • 15 Central Park West b/t 61st and 62nd Sts.(Yankees) Babe Ruth (Yankees) • Concourse Plaza Hotel (900 Grand Concourse at 161st Street) in the Bronx • Ansonia Hotel - 2107 Broadway b/t West 73rd-West 74th (1920-1929) • 345 West 88th St. b/t Riverside Drive and West End Avenue (1929-1942 • 173 Riverside Drive at 89th St • 110 Riverside Drive at 83rd St. (last residence) Daryl Strawberry (Mets) • 312 Eleventh Avenue at 30th St.(Mets, Yankees) Lawrence Taylor (Giants) • Had a restaurant on Rt 17 South in East Rutherford called LT's Restaurant and Sports Bar - closed Serena Williams (Tennis) • 28 West 38th Street b/t 5th and 6th Aves (Tennis) Venus Williams (Tennis) • 28 West 38th Street b/t 5th and 6th Aves(Tennis) Tiger Woods (Golf) • 421 Hudson Street b/t Clarkson and Leroy Sts.(Golf) LEGENDARY SPORTS HANGOUTS (all closed) Toot's Shor's • 51 West 51st St. b/t 5th Ave and 6th Ave. (40's-50's) Jack Dempsey's • 1619 Broadway between 49th to 50th Mickey Mantle's • 42 Central Park South b/t 5th Ave. and 6th Ave. Lindy's Restaurant • 1655 Broadway between 51st and 52nd Street (replaced) Sugar Ray's (Sugar Ray Robinson's Harlem Nightclub) • 2074 7th Ave bet 123-124 Sugar Ray's Leonard in front of his nighclub called Sugar Ray's at 2074 7th Avenue between 123rd and 124th in 1950. (the building has been replaced). 
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