181st Street Ice Palace

Former ice rink in New York City January 2025 181st Street Ice Palace Palais de Glace 250px 500 W. 181st StreetManhattan, NY, 10033 40.84818 -73.93131 type:landmark inline,title dms 1917 After 1925 Columbia Lions men's ice hockey (1920–1923) The 181st Street Ice Palace in Manhattan, New York was an indoor, artificial ice rink. The venue was used for a variety of ice-related activities but was primarily a figure skating and speed skating rink.http://highbridgeparkdevelopment.blogspot.com/2016/11/washington-heights-ice-corporation.html The High Bridge -- Its Past, Present & Future When the Ice Age Came to Washington Heights -- The Washington Heights Ice Corporation -- and the Palais de Glace November 19, 2016 January 28, 2022 History Sometime prior to the United States' entry into World War I, a new ice rink opened in Manhattan.https://www.nytimes.com/1917/03/15/archives/ice-skating-all-summer-that-is-what-181st-street-rink-plans-for-the.html The New York Times ICE SKATING ALL SUMMER.; That Is What 181st Street Rink Plans for the Coming Season. March 15, 1917 January 28, 2022 Initially it was a big success, however, during the summer of 1917 the price of artificial ice was fixed at $4.40 a ton (approximately $111 in 2022) and the rink was forced to close as an unnecessary luxury. The rink reopened shortly after the end of the war and became the home for Joe Moore, who would go on to compete in the first winter Olympiad in 1924. For a few years, the rink also served as a home for the Columbia Lions men's ice hockey. While the rink was not designed with ice hockey in mind, the team used the rink for three seasons before they decided the arrangement was untenable and suspended operations until a better venue could be found.http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19231119-01.2.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Volume XLVII, Number 46 Columbia Daily Spectator November 19, 1923 March 3, 2020 July 13, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210713204745/http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19231119-01.2.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- dead References Category:Sports venues completed in 1917 Category:Columbia Lions men's ice hockey Category:College ice hockey venues in New York (state) Category:Ice hockey venues in New York City Category:Defunct sports venues in Manhattan Category:1917 establishments in New York City Category:1910s architecture in the United States