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TheConey Island Velodrome was a mid-sized sportsarena inConey Island,Brooklyn,New York City. Designed as abicycle racing venue, thedrome featured a1⁄8-mile (0.20 km) wooden oval track with 45° banked corners and seating for 10,000. It also hostedoutboard midgets into 1939.^[1] Located next to theCulver Depot, theBrooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation's rail terminal at Neptune Avenue & West 12th Street, the venue played host to sports ranging frommotorcycle races toboxing andfootball.

The drome was a popular venue for both Coney Island vacationers and New York City residents. At the height of popularity for both American bicycle racing and boxing in the 1920s, Coney Island drome was host to regional and state championship bicycle races, and boxing heroes includingRocky Marciano,Joe Louis,Jersey Joe Walcott, andSugar Ray Robinson.

As theGreat Depression began, bicycle racing on theEastern Seaboard collapsed. On August 3, 1930, the velodrome was destroyed by fire^[2] but due to its location and use was rebuilt. The last event was an Old-Timers reunion and bicycle race on September 4, 1950. Coney Island Velodrome was torn down and replaced with high-rise housing.

Included in theNew York City bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics were plans to build anothervelodrome elsewhere on Coney Island. These plans were scrapped when New York lost the bid toLondon in 2005.^[3]

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