Madison Square Garden Bowl

Madison Square Garden Bowl was the name of an outdoor arena in the New York City borough of Queens.

[2] The Bowl, located at 48th Street and Northern Boulevard in Long Island City, was the site where James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer for the World Heavyweight title on June 13, 1935, a fight later dramatized in the film Cinderella Man.

The Madison Square Garden Bowl was torn down during World War II to make way for a US Army Mail Depot (and also because arena management deemed it more economical to rent baseball stadiums for fights).

Metal from the stadium was melted down to make bullets and other war materials, including those to build the Mail Depot.

[1] The depot itself was torn down in the 1960s, and the area is now home to a Major World used-car dealership and strip mall.